Cambridge, MA USA On-site Employment

Lila Sciences is hiring a Senior Software Engineer I/II, Back-end/Data, Robotics

Responsibilities

  • Design systems for scheduling experiments, instruments, and computing resources across autonomous laboratory environments using durable Temporal workflows to manage long-running processes.
  • Develop digital twin models by establishing a simulation and data infrastructure layer that enables teams to forecast factory operations prior to resource allocation.
  • Lead technical data management by implementing Flyte pipelines, building an S3-based lakehouse, and designing PostgreSQL schemas to transform raw instrument output into governed, reliable datasets.
  • Support data science initiatives by delivering batch and event-driven data pipelines that provide scientists and machine learning models with timely, high-quality data.
  • Build customer-facing capacity planning services that allow teams to project and manage factory resource availability effectively.
  • Ensure operational scalability by deploying and maintaining services on AWS EKS using Docker/ECR, Terraform for infrastructure, and GitHub Actions for CI/CD as the system expands.

Compensation

Competitive salary and equity package commensurate with experience.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid or remote with team coordination across time zones.

Team

Collaborative engineering team focused on robotics, automation, and data-intensive scientific workflows.

Technologies We Use

  • Temporal for workflow orchestration
  • Flyte for pipeline execution
  • PostgreSQL for structured data modeling
  • S3 for data lake storage
  • AWS EKS for container orchestration
  • Docker and ECR for container management
  • Terraform for infrastructure as code
  • GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation

Available for qualified candidates requiring sponsorship.

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Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences is the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category backend
Posted 4 days ago