Associate Director, Materials Testing
Company Summary
Lila Sciences is a privately held, early-stage technology company pioneering the application of artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the scientific method. Lila is backed by Flagship Pioneering, which brings the courage, long-term vision, and resources needed to realize unreasonable results. Join our mission-driven team and contribute to the future of science.
Our Physical Sciences effort is developing a novel AI and data-driven approach to materials discovery and development to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy.
At Lila, we are uniquely cross-functional and collaborative. We are actively reimagining the way teams work together and communicate. Therefore, we seek individuals with an inclusive mindset and a diversity of thought. Our teams thrive in unstructured and creative environments. All voices are heard because we know that experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way.
If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, please apply.
The Role:
Lila Sciences is seeking a thoughtful and dynamic Associate Director of Testing to join our team. The individual will help to shape our physical sciences testing efforts through the leadership of an exceptional team. ideation of new scientific campaigns, and establishment of critical capabilities and valuable workflows. The role reports into the Head of R&D.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of scientists and engineers across all testing efforts
- Troubleshoot workflows and instruments related to testing efforts
- Contribute to the ideation of new scientific campaigns in an effort to bring new materials for sustainability into the world
- Execute testing steps in scientific campaigns
- Work closely with Product Managers to design ideal testing workflows, and clearly communicate testing results
- Troubleshoot workflows and instruments related to testing efforts
- Provide expertise to Product Managers to support the development of target product profiles, updating testing capabilities as needed to deliver product candidates
- Collaborate with Synthesis, Characterization, Software, ML, and Automation/Engineering teams to ensure data flow from all characterization capabilities
- Collaborate with Physical Sciences leadership to identify consultants to support new capability builds
- Project management the build of experiment capabilities and their deployment in science campaigns
- Manage testing CAPEX including vendor relationships and budget requests
- Assist in testing strategy and planning for new and existing automated and autonomous workflows with deep integration of AI
- Demonstrate clear and thoughtful communication
Qualifications:
- Industry experience
- Experience with diverse types of functional testing over multiple material types
- Experience building and managing high performance teams
- Experience building automated systems as part of a team
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of standards like ASTM
- Experience developing a lead into a candidate or brought a product to market
- Experience developing high throughput proxy measurements for functional properties of materials
- Understanding of regulatory requirements
- Experience testing materials in extreme environments
- Experience with material assembly or device integration
- Experience with mechanical testing
- Clear decision-maker, rapid learner, with an appetite for speed. Fervent desire to coach a team in that direction
- Values, communicates, and interacts with others with high levels of transparency and respect with the acumen to engage and influence at all levels within the company
Competencies:
- Can balance strategic thinking while executing and getting into the weeds on a regular basis
- Organized with strong project management skills
- Data focused with experience dominated by experimental knowledge and a leaning towards data science and computation
Location: Cambridge, MA
More About Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering is a platform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture. Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.
Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are 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.
Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.
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