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Principal ML Research Engineer

Lila Sciences - San Francisco, CA USA

Posted May 15, 2026

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Principal ML Research Engineer San Francisco, CA USA Your Impact at LILA Lila is building a platform where AI and automation co-evolve to solve the hardest problems in science. Within Life Science AI (LSAI), we are launching a new AI for Cell Biology team to develop autonomous-science capabilities for cellular and tissue biology, spanning single-cell omics, perturbation biology, spatial profiling, imaging, genetics, and multi-modal experimental data; that integrate deep biological expertise with foundation modeling and agentic systems. We are seeking a Principal ML Research Engineer to be the founding engineering leader on this team . This is a 0→1 hands-on role. You will build and operate the engineering platform : domain data, domain-specific models, shared specialist-model serving and inference, agentic infrastructure, and the evaluation harness that the team's research programs run on, and that integrates cell-biology research with Lila's central autonomous-science platform: it's core-model, agentic-systems, and experimental-automation infrastructure that closes the loop between AI reasoning and the lab. You will work closely with Lila's central AI Platform, Data Platform, and autonomous-lab engineering teams to leverage and extend core Lila infrastructure rather than rebuild it , and you will co-develop the technical direction of the team with the VP of AI for Cell Biology and its ML Scientists as you build. Cell- and tissue-scale biology sits at an open frontier of AI for science. The field has produced strong specialist models across sub-domains: single-cell foundation models, molecular structural prediction, perturbation response, cellular imaging, pathway and ligand-receptor inference - but the engineering

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