Research Scientist I/II, Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics
Lila Sciences - Cambridge, MA USA
Posted Oct 6, 2025
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $111,944 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +13.7% - Much faster than average
83% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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About this role
Research Scientist I/II, Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics Cambridge, MA USA Your Impact at LILA Your role in our Physical Sciences division will focus on designing and implementing state-of-the-art simulation approaches to model transport, kinetics, rare events, and reaction networks, and integrating them with AI-driven platforms for materials discovery. Your work will be integral to our efforts in predicting, designing, and controlling the behavior of complex materials and molecular systems, and their acceleration via agentic AI. You will partner with diverse teams at Lila, including machine learning experts working on scientific superintelligence and materials science experts performing real-world experiments. What You'll Be Building - Develop and extend molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo algorithms to capture rare events, non-equilibrium processes, transport phenomena, and mapping complex reaction networks. - Build scalable simulation workflows that integrate statistical mechanics methods with machine learned interatomic potentials and agentic AI frameworks. - Design methods for coupling dynamics simulations with experimental observables to enable closed-loop verification and discovery with automated labs. - Collaborate with computational scientists, machine learning experts, and platform engineers to advance the fidelity and scalability of simulation-driven materials discovery. - Establish reproducible, modular software pipelines for statistical mechanics and dynamics simulations that can be deployed on HPC and cloud-based infrastructure. What You'll Need to Succeed - PhD or equivalent research/industry experience in Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related fields. - Strong background in statistical mechanics, free energy calculations, reaction mapping, non-equilibrium dynamics, and rare-event sampling. - Demonstrated expertise with molecular dynamics,
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