Senior Engineer, Instrument Software

Your Impact at Lila

Lila Sciences is seeking a dedicated Instrument Software Engineer to join our team to help build the next generation of AI-in-the-loop laboratories. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the interface between hardware, science, and software, and who enjoys working with scientists and engineers across disciplines to create innovative solutions within this complex space. You will be building and expanding our AI-in-the-loop experimental platform, directly contributing to Lila’s core mission of achieving Scientific Super intelligence. 

What You'll Be Building

• Instrument Software Development: Develop robust, production-quality software to enable communication between laboratory-focused robotic systems and our orchestration and data software systems, ensuring reliable and efficient integrations.
• System Integration: Integrate instruments seamlessly within new and existing automation frameworks and robotics control systems, ensuring compatibility and stability across our platform.
• Testing and Debugging: Develop rigorous testing frameworks and scaffolding supporting and spanning SW unit testing, Simulation-in-the-loop, Hardware-in-the-loop, and Science-in-the-loop to identify, isolate, and rectify performance bugs and compatibility challenges.
• Collaboration & Technical Documentation: Work closely with cross functional teams, including hardware engineers, software engineers, automation engineers, product managers, and scientists. Generate clear and comprehensive documentation to facilitate these relationships and ensure long-term supportability of our platform.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 5 years of industry experience in engineering
• Proficiency in Python, C#, or similar languages is essential
• Experience with hardware integration, instrument-facing software, robotics software, or simulation development.
• Solid understanding of Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Demonstrated ability to debug hardware-software integration issues.
• A history of building thoughtful, impact-focused engineering solutions.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proficiency with version control systems.
• Effective utilization of state of the art AI tooling

Bonus Points For

• Experience in developing scientist-facing software, particularly if in a laboratory setting
• Familiarity with event driven architectures and cloud-to-edge integrations
• Familiarity with building CI/CD pipelines and as-needed DevOps solutions at the interface of cloud and on-prem systems.
• Previous exposure to data contracts, api development, and ETL pipelines
• Hardware-hacking with nonstandard or creative integrations to get non-automatable things automated.

About Lila

Lila Sciences is the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science.  We are pioneering a new age of boundless discovery by building the capabilities to apply AI to every aspect of the scientific method.  We are introducing scientific superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges, enabling scientists to bring forth solutions in human health, climate, and sustainability at a pace and scale never experienced before. Learn more about this mission at  www.lila.ai

If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, we encourage you to apply.

Compensation

We expect the base salary for this role to fall between $120,000–$192,000 USD per year, along with bonus potential and generous early equity. The final offer will reflect your unique background, expertise, and impact.

We’re All In

Lila 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.

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