Lila Sciences
ML Engineer, Applied AI
Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA · Mid · Full-time
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$22,237 more — $138,237 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $138,237 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- You'll work on improving Lila's AI models for customer-specific scientific needs, with a focus on turning frontier model capabilities into reliable workflows that can be evaluated, iterated, and used in real customer contexts.
- This is a rare chance to join an early team with the autonomy, flexibility, and compute to tackle frontier science problems.
- Applied AI sits at the intersection of AI Research, model engineering, and product deployment.
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
- Close the last-mile gap between Lila AI model capabilities and customer-specific scientific workflows.
- Post-train models using approaches such as SFT and RL (DPO, PPO/GRPO) to align model behavior with customer-specific requirements and feedback.
- Feed customer learnings, data signals, and evaluation results back into the Lila AI model improvement cycles.
- Work with Software to integrate model behavior into end-to-end product workflows.
- Debug model failures using traces, evaluations, customer context, and scientific feedback.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
- Experience designing experiments, evaluation metrics, or test sets for model performance.
- Ability to debug model behavior using data, traces, logs, and qualitative feedback.
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
- $116,000 - $170,000 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.
Company info
- Your Impact at LILA
- We are growing our Applied AI org and seeking Machine Learning Engineers with expertise in model training, evaluation, and production-oriented ML systems.
- The team partners closely with AI Researchers and Software teams to adapt Lila models to customer workflows, improve model quality through experimentation, and ensure model behavior works well end to end inside the application.
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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