Staff Engineer, OT Security

• Significant hands-on experience in cybersecurity, infrastructure engineering, systems integration, or OT security engineering in operationally constrained environments.
• Experience designing and implementing security controls in OT, industrial control systems, laboratory automation, manufacturing, infrastructure, or similarly constrained environments.
• Strong working knowledge of segmentation, identity, access control, compensating controls, and secure remote access patterns.
• Hands-on experience with one or more core OT security domains: machine identity, PKI, privileged access management, OT monitoring, detection engineering, vulnerability management, or incident response.
• Solid networking and segmentation fundamentals, including VLANs, firewall policy, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and packet analysis.
• Ability to translate architecture into operating controls, runbooks, risk decisions, and repeatable engineering standards.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions to engineers, scientists, security leaders, and executives.
• Willingness to work on-site at Lila laboratory locations on a regular basis, including participation in on-call rotation and scheduled maintenance or incident response coverage.

• Experience in life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, laboratory automation, manufacturing, or high-throughput research environments.
• Familiarity with IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-82, NIST CSF, GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 9001, or comparable quality and security frameworks.
• Experience with OT visibility platforms such as Claroty, Tenable OT, Dragos, Nozomi Networks, or comparable tools.
• Experience with PKI, TLS/mTLS, TPM-bound credentials, certificate lifecycle management, or modern machine identity patterns.
• Experience with privileged access management platforms such as CyberArk, Delinea, HashiCorp Vault, or comparable tools.
• Background in product security, embedded security, IoT security, secure-at-ship programs, or shift-left security practices.
• Practical scripting or automation experience with Python, PowerShell, APIs, or infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Relevant OT or security certifications such as GICSP, IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Expert, GIAC GRID, GCIH, CISSP, or similar credentials.

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.

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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.

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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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