About the job
Your Impact at Lila
As a Machine Learning Engineer on the Physical Sciences team, you will play a pivotal role in developing and managing comprehensive, scalable machine learning workflows. These workflows will address a wide range of scientific challenges in materials science, chemistry, and physical sciences. Your contributions will be instrumental in advancing research initiatives focused on cutting-edge algorithms, driving towards the establishment of scientific superintelligence to tackle today’s most significant challenges in physical sciences.
What You Will Build
- Design, implement, and sustain end-to-end ML pipelines, encompassing data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Productionize models and services while ensuring robust testing, observability, and documentation in collaboration with cross-functional software teams; develop CI/CD workflows and automated evaluations to facilitate safe and frequent releases.
- Work closely with domain scientists and platform engineers to translate research insights into high-performing, scalable systems.
- Participate in technical design reviews, establish coding standards, and mentor colleagues on best practices.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent industry experience.
- A solid foundation in Python software engineering, including testing, packaging, and typing; experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch and Hugging Face.
- Experience deploying ML services in cloud-based environments (FastAPI/GRPC, containers, orchestration, cloud infrastructure).
- Hands-on experience with deploying models in production systems (LLMs, multimodal models, databases, RAG) along with strong debugging and profiling skills.
- Effective communication and collaboration in cross-functional settings.
Bonus Points For
- Familiarity with scientific or engineering domains (materials, chemistry, physics) and related data formats/benchmarks.
- Experience in GPU optimization (CUDA, Triton, compilation, distributed training).
- Previous contributions to open-source ML or scientific software.
- Experience with workflow orchestration, data provenance, or large-scale computing environments.
About Lila
Lila Sciences stands as the pioneering platform for scientific superintelligence, offering an autonomous laboratory dedicated to life sciences, chemistry, and materials science. We are at the forefront of a new era of limitless discovery, harnessing AI to revolutionize research and innovation in these fields.

