Scientists shouldn't have to context-switch between a dozen tools to go from hypothesis to result. We're building the platform that makes this a reality — and we need engineers who want to solve problems no one has solved before.

We're hiring Sr Principal / Principal Software Engineers to design the agents, interfaces, and platform integrations that let researchers seamlessly collaborate with AI.

The Application Team sits at the center of LILA — the integration point where Machine Learning, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Software become one AI-native experience that carries a scientist from hypothesis to experiment to breakthrough results.

AI isn't a feature here — it's the architecture. Agent frameworks, tools, and LLM orchestration are core primitives, not bolt-ons.

The problems are genuinely hard. Connecting AI to automated lab workflows, ML pipelines, and multi-domain knowledge graphs means inventing patterns, not copying them.

You'll learn domains you never expected. Working shoulder-to-shoulder with lab scientists and ML engineers means your technical surface area grows fast.

You'll ship things that matter. The tools you build accelerate research timelines from months to days.

If you want to build at the intersection of AI and science, move fast without breaking trust, and grow into the kind of engineer who can architect systems that don't exist yet — we want to talk.

What You'll Be Building

Design & Build UI and APIs: Design and build high-performance, secure, and well-documented UI and APIs that integrate with AI-driven applications.

Database Architecture & Scaling: Develop schemas and manage diverse data systems (SQL, NoSQL, Vector DBs, and others) for optimal performance and scalability.

Application Development: Drive the implementation of front-end and backend services, focusing on performance, maintainability, and reliability.

Sr Principal/Principal Software Engineer, App

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Lila Sciences

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