# Associate Director, App at Lila Sciences

- Company: Lila Sciences
- What the company does: LILA has created the world's first Operating System for Science powered by Scientific Superintelligence™. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.lila.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lilasciences/jobs/4371404009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lila-sciences-associate-director-app/

## About the role

Scientists shouldn't have to context-switch between a dozen tools to go from hypothesis to result. We're building the platform that makes this a reality — and we need engineering leaders who want to build the team that solves problems no one has solved before. We're hiring an Associate Director of Engineering, Application Team to lead the engineers designing the agents, interfaces, and platform integrations that let researchers seamlessly collaborate with AI.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 12+ years of engineering experience building and deploying large-scale production systems, with 5+ years leading senior engineers
- Track record of building and growing high-performing engineering teams in high-growth or early-stage environments where speed-to-value mattered as much as long-term architecture
- Deep technical judgment on Applied AI (agents, MCP, context engineering) and across the full stack (React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, SQL/NoSQL, AWS, Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience — personally and on the teams you've led — using AI coding assistants and agentic tooling to drive productivity
- Proven ability to define technical strategy, drive it to execution, and balance trade-offs between scalability, performance, delivery speed, and maintainability

Tags: Software