Senior Data Engineer, Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Materials

• Experience with columnar or lakehouse stacks such as Parquet, Iceberg, DuckDB, Polars, or Ibis.
• Familiarity with event-driven pipelines such as NATS or Kafka.
• Exposure to lab instrument data formats, LIMS, or ELN systems.
• Familiarity with life sciences assays, sequencing, imaging, or flow cytometry.
• Familiarity with materials or chemistry methods such as XRD, XRF, SEM, TGA, or DSC.
• Experience with curve fitting, peak detection, or unit and dimensional analysis.

We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity.

Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.

U.S. Benefits. Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program.

International Benefits.

Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region.

USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.

Lila Sciences is building Scientific SuperintelligenceTM 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 FactoryTM 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.

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