About the job
Your Role at Lila Sciences
Join our innovative Physical Sciences division, where you will spearhead the development of intelligent agent-driven systems designed to enhance AI-accelerated and AI-orchestrated process engineering across diverse industrial applications. In this pivotal role, your mission will be to create methodologies empowering AI agents to reason, design, simulate, optimize, and operate complex physical and chemical processes using both traditional and machine learning-driven process engineering tools. You will focus on building agentic infrastructures that facilitate AI systems in planning and executing multi-step process engineering workflows, which include process synthesis, flowsheet generation, steady-state and dynamic simulation, control strategy design, and techno-economic evaluation. Your contributions will significantly influence how Lila's scientific superintelligence addresses real-world challenges through closed-loop autonomous process engineering.
Your Contributions
- Design and implement agentic frameworks supporting comprehensive process engineering workflows, encompassing process setup, simulation, optimization, and analysis.
- Create AI agents capable of autonomously planning, executing, and refining process engineering tasks utilizing existing tools such as steady-state and dynamic simulators, optimizers, and data systems.
- Investigate agentic strategies for advanced objectives, including process intensification, control co-design, real-time optimization, and closed-loop learning informed by operational data.
- Enhance the robustness, interpretability, and reproducibility of agent-driven process engineering workflows; develop internal tools for debugging, observability, validation, and auditability.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to apply agentic process engineering across a wide range of industrial applications.

