LILA has created the world's first Operating System for Science powered by Scientific Superintelligence™. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
Lila is seeking a Controls Engineer on our Sustaining Engineering team to support the reliability and lifecycle performance of automated scientific equipment across our lab operations environment. This role works on deployed automation systems, including integrated robotics, PLCs, SCADA, instrumentation, and connected equipment.
What they're looking for
- 2 to 5+ years supporting, maintaining, or troubleshooting automated control systems
- Hands-on experience with PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, and related automation platforms
- Experience with OT networking, including routing, security groups, VPNs, or similar systems
- Experience using Git or equivalent version control for engineering artifacts
- Ability to create and maintain engineering documents using AutoCAD, SolidWorks Electrical, or similar tools
- Experience with robotics integration, structured text, or related automation programming
More about this role
Lila is seeking a Controls Engineer on our Sustaining Engineering team to support the reliability and lifecycle performance of automated scientific equipment across our lab operations environment. This role works on deployed automation systems, including integrated robotics, PLCs, SCADA, instrumentation, and connected equipment.
You will troubleshoot multi-disciplinary issues, maintain and improve controls infrastructure, and support upgrades that keep laboratory workflows running reliably. The work spans incident response, preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, vendor software integration, documentation, and system lifecycle management.
This is an execution-focused engineering role for someone who enjoys hands-on problem solving in complex lab automation environments. Success means improving uptime, reducing recurring faults, and helping automation systems become safer, more reliable, and easier to maintain over time.
- Maintain and improve deployed PLC, SCADA, and robotics control systems.
- Troubleshoot incidents across controls, robotics, instrumentation, networking, and integrated equipment.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement fixes that reduce recurring...
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