Senior Software Engineer I/II, Back-end/Data, Robotics
Lila Sciencesabout 4 hours ago
Base Salary
$144k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design scheduling systems that allocate experiments, instruments, and compute across autonomous labs using durable Temporal workflows.
- Build the simulation and digital-twin data layer for predicting factory behavior before resources are committed.
- Develop Flyte pipelines, an S3 lakehouse, and PostgreSQL models that produce governed and trustworthy instrument data.
- Deliver batch and event-driven pipelines that provide clean data to scientists and models.
- Create customer-facing services for forecasting factory capacity.
- Operate reliable services on AWS EKS using Docker, ECR, Terraform, and GitHub Actions as the factory scales.
Requirements
- 4–8 years of back-end engineering experience building production services in Python and FastAPI at scale.
- Experience with data pipelines using a workflow orchestrator such as Flyte, Temporal, or a similar tool.
- Hands-on experience with SQL, PostgreSQL, object storage such as S3, and data lakehouse architectures.
- Experience delivering cloud-native systems with containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD, ideally using AWS EKS, Docker, ECR, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
- Ability to own services from design through delivery, reliability, and iteration.
- Clear communication of technical tradeoffs to engineers, scientists, and business partners.
- Preferred experience includes regulated or safety- and quality-critical industries and standards such as 21 CFR Part 11, ALCOA+, GAMP 5, FDA CSA, or ISA-95.
- Preferred domain exposure includes robotics, lab automation, LIMS, or manufacturing/MES environments.
- Preferred experience includes scheduling, resource allocation, constraint or optimization problems, Ray, Weights & Biases, model serving, NATS, or MQTT.
Benefits
- Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance are provided.
- Benefits include flexible time off, company-wide holidays, and paid parental leave.
- Educational assistance, commuter benefits including bike-share memberships for office-based employees, and a subsidized lunch program are available.
- International employees receive regionally tailored benefits.
- The role is a full-time position; USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions.
About Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences is the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science. We are building the foundation to apply AI to every aspect of the scientific method, enabling scientists to bring forth solutions in human health and sustainability at a pace and scale never experienced before.