Lila Sciences

Lila Sciences

Senior Director, Software Development, Test Automation

San Francisco, CA USA · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$260k-$390kDetected 12 days ago
TypeScriptPythonBackend DevelopmentGitCI/CDGitHub ActionsSite Reliability EngineeringData EngineeringLLMsAI OrchestrationRecruitingLoad TestingTest AutomationResearchGxP

About the role

  • You scale through tooling and influence.
  • As you scale into this role, you'll also stand up the QC framework for our lab automation system - the validation patterns, harnesses, and contracts that science operations teams will operate day-to-day.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the test automation platform - frameworks, fixtures, golden datasets, test orchestration, and reporting - that the engineering org adopts by default
  • Own the buy/build/borrow strategy across test infrastructure, eval platforms, browser/device clouds, observability, and lab QC tooling
  • Make build-vs-buy decisions with conviction
  • Bias toward leverage: buy commodity capabilities, build the differentiators (Lila-specific AI evals, lab QC, scientific data integrity)
  • Own the test execution layer of CI/CD: parallelization, caching, hermetic environments, ephemeral preview envs, and affected-only test selection across our Nx monorepo/microservices.
  • Build retry, quarantine, and impact-analysis systems so signal stays sharp as the org scales
  • Drive AI-driven test automation
  • 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.
  • Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you'll own the test automation system, CI/CD test infrastructure, AI-driven test tooling, and the eval discipline that hold the bar across our SDLC.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years leading test automation, quality engineering, or platform/SRE-adjacent functions
  • Python and/or Typescript hands on expertise is highly desirable.
  • Deep CI/CD expertise.
  • Hands-on AI-driven test automation experience.
  • Track record of standing up a test automation platform that engineering teams adopted - not one bolted on
  • Working knowledge of Google's SRE practices and a point of view on when they apply to pre-production quality

Nice to have

  • Experience in GxP-regulated environments or scientific data integrity programs
  • Experience with lab automation, LIMS, or other instrument-driven systems
  • Multi-tenant SaaS quality at scale
  • Exposure to event-driven systems, agent orchestration frameworks, or MCP
  • Performance/load testing or chaos engineering background
  • Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.
  • and a company subsidized lunch program.
  • international salaries are set to local market.

Skills

  • What You'll Be Building
  • Apply Google SRE practices to prioritize where investment goes

Compensation

  • We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity.
  • USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.
  • Expected Base Salary Range
  • $260,000 - $390,000 USD

Benefits

  • You will drive the quality vision, write requirements, make sharp build-vs-buy calls, drive execution, and build and lead a small (3-5 person) team that delivers leverage.
  • Bonus Points For
  • Drive change-failure rate, MTTR, Test effectiveness, pipeline efficiency, coverage, and PR-to-prod lead time as outcomes
  • Apply LLMs across the full test lifecycle: test generation from specs and PRs, self-healing UI tests, synthesis, visual regression with vision models, and AI-assisted failure triage
  • 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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