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Salary: USD 108,000 - 170,000 / annual
Lila Sciences is seeking a Platform Scientist I/II to advance functional materials innovation through custom instrumentation and hardware design. You will design and integrate specialized instruments for fabricating, characterizing, and testing novel functional materials and devices, working at the intersection of hardware design, materials science, solid-state physics, and automated experimentation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Establish fabrication and measurement workflows for functional materials
- Specify, source, assemble, and validate custom synthesis and characterization systems, with emphasis on optical characterization methods
- Lead integration of instrumentation into autonomous lab and AI-driven experimental workflows
- Diagnose, iterate, and improve instrument designs based on experimental feedback
- Partner with computational, synthesis, and characterization teams to define future hardware capabilities
Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve major challenges by combining advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the scientific method autonomously. The company accelerates discovery across medicine, materials, and energy.
Qualifications:
- PhD or equivalent experience in applied physics, materials science, chemistry, or related field
- Scientific domain expertise in functional materials (semiconductor, photonics, superconducting materials, etc.)
- Expertise in solid-state syntheses and characterization for functional materials
- Proven ability to build and integrate hardware for novel and high-throughput experimentation
- Ability to work in fast, data-driven, high-throughput R&D environments
Bonus qualifications:
- Proficiency in writing software for controls, data collection, and analysis
- CAD, machining/3D printing, and rapid prototyping for custom hardware
- Knowledge of AI/ML-driven discovery workflows or autonomous lab platforms
- Experience with class 4 lasers
