Co-op, Protein Sciences

Your Impact at LILA

Lila Sciences is seeking a dedicated Cell Free Co-op for Protein Sciences to join our team. The focus of this role will be cell culture and cell lysis to generate materials for protein expression. You will continue maintenance and optimization of the cell free platform here at Lila.

What You'll Be Building

• Perform cell culture and lysis of various cell lines
• Generate quality control data via plate-based assays
• Prepare media and solutions for cell culture and processing
• Track and maintain excellent data records in formats amenable to computational workflows
• Analyze and interpret experimental data, prepare technical reports, and present findings to internal teams and stakeholders

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Working on a degree in biochemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, biological engineering, chemical engineering, or a related field.
• 1+ years of laboratory experience
• Experience with cell culture techniques, including growth, maintenance, and transformation
• Excellent attention to detail, organization, and communication

Bonus Points For

• An enthusiasm for and openness to using AI in laboratory settings is highly valued
• Familiarity with plate-based assays is a plus
• Familiarity with Python programming for data analysis and automation is a plus

About LILA

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.

LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.

Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.

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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