Lila Sciences
Lab Operations Specialist
Cambridge, MA USA · Mid · Full-time
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About the role
- Your Impact at LILA Lab Operations is the operational backbone that lets science move quickly.
- You'll help improve lab operations processes, onboard scientists to lab tools and workflows, and mentor newer team members as the team scales.
- Your work keeps instruments serviced and tracked, helps stand up new lab spaces, and ensures Lila's experimental teams can move quickly across sites.
Responsibilities
- Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
- Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges.
- Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
Nice to have
- Coordinate equipment installs, setup, moves, relocations, decommissions, and specialized or heavy-lift installs.
- Coordinate shipping, receiving, courier, warehouse, sample, and equipment logistics.
- 3+ years of experience in lab operations or lab management, preferably in a physical sciences environment.
- Experience managing and troubleshooting scientific equipment, including PMs, calibration, installs, and moves.
- Experience with lab inventory, asset, or work-order systems such as CMMS, ChemInventory, Jira, or Notion.
- Experience coordinating vendors for service, installs, moves, and logistics.
- Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Working understanding of lab safety practices and comfort partnering with EH&S on waste streams and compliance.
Compensation
- We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.
- International Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions
- Expected Base Salary Range
- $68,000 - $102,667 USD
- USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.
Benefits
- U.S. Benefits.
- Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- employer-paid life and disability insurance
- flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
- paid parental leave
- an educational assistance program
- commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
- International Benefits.
- Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region.
Visa & Work Authorization
- al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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