Lila Sciences
AI
SrPrincipal/PrincipalSoftwareEngineer,App
“Sr Principal/Principal Software Engineer, App at Lila Sciences. Skills: AI, Platform integrations, Research acceleration. Design agents. Build interfaces”
What You'll Achieve.
Accelerate research timelines from months to days; Ship things that matter
Industry & Context.
Solve problems no one has solved before; Ownership of complex backend challenges
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Proven ability to take ownership of complex backend challenges, balancing trade-offs between scalability, performance, and maintainability
Nice to Have
Experience building with AI agents, graph-based workflows, tool-use protocols (MCP), RAG pipelines, LLM orchestration frameworks, understanding of Kubernetes, containerization, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), Experience with ORMs, web services for CRUD services (SQLModel, FastAPI, Django), Experience with orchestrators tools (Airflow, Prefect, Temporal, Dagster), Familiarity with data science and ML libraries (pandas, numpy, scipy, jax, pytorch), Exposure to laboratory software or analytics for life sciences, material sciences, or related fields, Experience with laboratory devices, robotics, hardware drivers
What You'll Do.
Explain complex ideas
Take ownership of backend challenges
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Working shoulder-to-shoulder with lab scientists; Working shoulder-to-shoulder with ML engineers
Communication Scope
Explain complex ideas to diverse audiences
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