Senior Software Engineer I/II, Back-end/Data, Robotics
Lila Sciences2 months ago
Cambridge, MA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design scheduling systems that allocate experiments, instruments, and compute across autonomous labs using durable workflows.
- Build the simulation and digital-twin data layer for predicting factory behavior before resource commitments.
- Develop Flyte pipelines, S3 lakehouse infrastructure, and PostgreSQL models for governed experimental data.
- Deliver batch and event-driven pipelines that provide clean data to scientists and models.
- Create customer-facing services for forecasting factory capacity.
- Operate scalable services on AWS EKS using Docker/ECR, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
Requirements
- 4–8 years of backend engineering experience building production services in Python and FastAPI at scale.
- Experience building data pipelines with a workflow orchestrator such as Flyte, Temporal, or a similar technology.
- 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; AWS EKS, Docker/ECR, Terraform, and GitHub Actions are preferred.
- Ability to own services end to end from design through delivery, reliability, and iteration.
- Experience in regulated, safety-critical, or quality-critical systems such as aerospace, manufacturing, healthcare, or life sciences is beneficial.
- Exposure to 21 CFR Part 11, ALCOA+, GAMP 5, FDA CSA, ISA-95, robotics, lab automation, LIMS, MES, scheduling, optimization, Ray, Weights & Biases, model serving, NATS, or MQTT is beneficial.
Benefits
- Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance, flexible time off, company-wide holidays, and paid parental leave are provided.
- 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 offers bonus potential and early-stage equity.
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About Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences builds an AI-driven research platform and autonomous lab systems for life science, chemistry, and materials R&D teams. Its products combine large AI models with robotic instruments to plan, run, and analyze experiments, integrating into customer-specific scientific workflows. The privately held company serves pharma, materials, and energy organizations and is venture-backed, including a Series A financing in 2025.