# Associate Director/Director, Inference Engineering 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: 2026-10-26
- Apply by: 2026-12-10
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lilasciences/jobs/4459902009?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lila-sciences-associate-director-director-inference-engineering/

## About the role

Lila is hiring an Associate Director/Director, Inference Engineering to lead the team responsible for Lila's model serving platform: the inference APIs, serving frameworks, request routing, batching strategies, and deployment systems that bring models reliably to production. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Deep understanding of the inference stack for large language models, including serving frameworks (e.g., vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, TGI), batching strategies, memory constraints, and latency/throughput tradeoffs
- Experience owning a customer- or product-facing API service end to end, including SLAs, incident response, and service reliability in fast-moving environments
- Track record hiring, mentoring, and retaining senior technical talent, and scaling engineering organizations through rapid growth
- Strong technical judgment across latency, throughput, reliability, cost, and delivery speed
- Demonstrated ability to set technical strategy and execute as priorities change
- Ability to align ML, research, product engineering, and executive stakeholders with competing priorities

Tags: Software

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lila-sciences-associate-director-director-inference-engineering/