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This role is for a strong software developer who is comfortable working close to infrastructure, reliability, CI/CD, and cloud systems.\nYou will build production software across application services, internal tools, automation systems, deployment workflows, and reliability platforms. The right person brings strong software engineering fundamentals, product-minded execution, and the ability to use agentic coding tools to raise quality, increase delivery speed, and produce results beyond conventional software development approaches.\nThis role works closely with software engineers, ML engineers, and scientific teams to support platform operations, inference workloads, experiment orchestration, and application security. It is best suited for someone who wants to build durable software systems while improving how those systems are designed, deployed, monitored, and operated.\nWhat You'll Be Building\n\nDesign and build production applications, services, and internal tools for Platform Operations.\nDevelop backend services, APIs, automation systems, and workflow integrations.\nUse agentic coding tools to accelerate delivery while improving code quality and test coverage.\nBuild deployment and release workflows that make software delivery faster and safer.\nImprove reliability, observability, and operational readiness across software systems.\nPartner with infrastructure and platform teams on Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, and security.\nCreate developer-friendly tooling that helps engineering teams ship and operate services.\nDebug complex issues across application code, infrastructure, and production environments.\nApply sound software design practices to systems that need to scale and evolve.\nWhat You’ll Need to Succeed\n5+ years of software engineering experience building production applications, services, or systems.\nStrong backend development skills in Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.\nExperience designing APIs, services, automation workflows, and internal developer tools.\nPractical experience using agentic coding tools to improve engineering quality and output.\nWorking knowledge of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and deployment systems.\nStrong debugging skills across application code, distributed systems, and production environments.\nAbility to design maintainable systems with clear interfaces, observability, and secure defaults.\nStrong communication skills and a track record of cross-functional engineering collaboration.\nBonus Points For\nExperience building platform, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure-adjacent software systems.\nFamiliarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.\nExperience improving observability, deployment safety, incident response, or operational tooling.\nBackground with security-minded software delivery, including secrets, access controls, scanning, or supply chain practices.\nExperience using AI or agentic development workflows for testing, refactoring, documentation, or delivery automation.\nExperience supporting ML, inference, scientific, or data-intensive workloads\nCompensation\nWe offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.\nU.S. Benefits. Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program.\nInternational Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.\nExpected Base Salary Range\n$180,000—$280,000 USD\nAbout LILA\nLila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.\nLILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.\nGuided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.\nWe’re All In\nLila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.\nInformation you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.\nA Note to Agencies\nLila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. 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