Lilasciences

Lilasciences

Senior Software Engineer, Operations Research

Cambridge, MA USA · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$256kDetected 29 days ago
PythonFastAPIBackend DevelopmentAlgorithmsGitSQLNoSQLPostgreSQLVector DatabasesAWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsDevOpsTemporalMachine LearningPyTorchPandasNumPyData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationRecruiting

About the role

  • Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.
  • USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.
  • We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build APIs and backend services that integrate with AI-driven applications, with focus on reliability and performance.
  • Drive the implementation of backend services, focusing on performance, maintainability, and reliability.
  • 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.
  • Experience developing scheduling software or manufacturing execution systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants to drive productivity is required.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS
  • strong understanding of Kubernetes and containerization, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
  • Familiarity with data science, data visualization, and ML libraries (pandas, polars, numpy, scipy, pytorch).
  • Experience with operations research solvers (OR-Tools, HiGHS, Gurobi).

Skills

  • (Fleet) orchestrator, Scheduler, Manufacturing Execution System, data pipelines, and related software systems.

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
  • $180,000 - $256,000 USD

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

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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