Director / Senior Director, AI x Lab Integration at Lila Sciences · LumiJobs

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Lila is building a platform where AI and automation co-evolve to accelerate scientific discovery. Within AI Research, the AI x Lab Integration team develops the capabilities that allow reasoning models to translate scientific intent into executable experiments.
We are seeking a Director, AI x Lab Integration to further grow and lead this team. You will set the research agenda for models that understand the purpose of a protocol, compose experiments against real laboratory constraints, diagnose failures, and adapt protocols as evidence arrives. Your work will help LLMs hone scientific judgment and learn from practical knowledge needed to turn a research question into a reliable experimental workflow.
This is a hands-on research leadership role. You will recruit exceptional researchers, make consequential technical decisions, and establish rigorous evidence that model improvements transfer to real experiments. You will partner closely with domain scientists and the teams responsible for laboratory execution, data infrastructure, and orchestration.
What You'll Be Building
The lab intelligence research agenda: Lead research across protocol understanding, intent-to-protocol generation, feasibility assessment, protocol repair, failure diagnosis, and adaptation based on experimental results.
Learning from scientific expertise: Partner with the scientists to turn expert demonstrations, corrections, and experimental feedback into model improvements that capture tacit scientific knowledge.
Post-training methods for laboratory reasoning: Lead research in supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, tool use, and learning from execution feedback. Determine which methods improve scientific validity, execution success, and generalization to unfamiliar protocols and conditions.
Rigorous capability evaluation: Establish independent evaluations spanning individual protocol skills, decisions made during a run, and workflows that cross scientific domains. Measure scientific correctness, feasibility, execution outcomes, uncertainty, and the need for human intervention.
A high-performing research team: Hire, mentor, and lead scientists and research engineers. Set clear ownership, maintain strong experimental standards, and build a culture of ambitious hypotheses, careful measurement, and rapid learning.

Director / Senior Director, AI x Lab Integration

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Lila Sciences

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