Staff Research Engineer, Scientific Computing and ML/Physics Infrastructure

Lila Sciences is seeking a Staff Research Engineer to bridge the gap between scientific research and production systems. You will work with scientists to scale and optimize ML and physics-based tools for drug discovery, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and usability across compute environments. This role involves building and supporting infrastructure for model training, simulation, and data processing.

• Scale research tools into robust, efficient, and maintainable systems
• Collaborate with scientists to build scalable agent-usable systems
• Build and support ML and physics infrastructure for drug discovery
• Ensure reliable workflow execution across multiple compute environments
• Optimize GPU utilization, distributed execution, and fault tolerance
• Architect larger-scale systems for job orchestration and monitoring