We're seeking extraordinarily talented Forward Deployed Engineers to join our growing team. Our FDEs are high-performing generalists with a broad set of skills across scientific domains and software engineering, in addition to depth in one or more focus areas.

As an FDE, you'll embed directly within our internal and external materials science teams, living their problems and rapidly ideating, building, and deploying solutions that transform their capabilities across the Lila platform. You'll leverage our AI and software platform tools while developing custom features that address each customer's unique challenges. This isn't traditional software development—it's high-velocity, AI-fueled, high-impact engineering where you'll ship production code in days, not months.

What You'll Be Building

Developing, wrapping, and adapting domain-specific tools for data analysis, process optimization, and more.

Deploying custom agentic scientific workflows that integrate with industrial instruments (PLCs, control software) and data systems (ERP, MES, SCADA).

Building real-time data pipelines that transform scientific data into actionable insights.

Creating intuitive interfaces that make complex AI/ML capabilities accessible to scientists.

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Physical Sciences (Level Flexible)

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Lila Sciences

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