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Scientist II, Mechanics & Extreme Materials

Lila Sciences - Cambridge, MA USA

Posted Jun 1, 2026

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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

34% 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

Scientist II, Mechanics & Extreme Materials Cambridge, MA USA Your Impact at LILA As a Scientist II, Mechanics & Extreme Materials on the Materials Science team at Lila Sciences, you will be the technical expert driving closed-loop learning for extreme materials. Your domain depth in coatings and metal alloys, durability testing, and microstructural analysis will directly shape the experimental methods and automated workflows that power Lila's autonomous science platform. This role sits at the center of Lila's extreme materials program focused on the predictive design of hard, wear-resistant, and corrosion-resistant coatings for aerospace, defense, and industrial applications. You will define how the platform interrogates the performance of new alloy and coating systems, what data it generates, and how those outputs feed back into the next experimental cycle. You will work alongside experimentalists, systems engineers, and machine learning scientists, providing the mechanical and metallurgical judgement that keeps closed-loop campaigns scientifically rigorous and accelerating toward next-generation coating and extreme material solutions. What You'll Be Building - Work with Program Lead to drive the strategy for closed-loop campaigns on anti-wear and anti-corrosion materials. - Develop, execute and optimize characterization and testing workflows for extreme environment materials, including coatings and bulk materials. Focus areas include: microstructural, mechanical, and tribological analysis for process-structure-property relationships. - Collaborate with experimentalists, systems engineers, and ML scientists to integrate characterization outputs into autonomous closed-loop workflows and ML training datasets. - Lead experimental design and analysis to extract key materials properties and performance parameters for ML training. - Troubleshoot characterization

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