LILA has created the world's first Operating System for Science powered by Scientific Superintelligence™. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
We are growing our Applied AI org and seeking Machine Learning Engineers with expertise in model training, evaluation, and production-oriented ML systems. You’ll work on improving Lila’s AI models for customer-specific scientific needs, with a focus on turning frontier model capabilities into reliable workflows that can be evaluated, iterated, and used in real customer contexts. This is a rare chance to join an early team with the autonomy, flexibility, and compute to tackle frontier science problems.
What they're looking for
- Experience building, training, adapting, or evaluating machine learning models
- Strong software engineering skills in Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
- Experience designing experiments, evaluation metrics, or test sets for model performance
- Ability to debug model behavior using data, traces, logs, and qualitative feedback
- Experience working across research and engineering teams to move ML capabilities into usable systems
- Familiarity with large language models, multi-modal models, or agentic AI systems
More about this role
We are growing our Applied AI org and seeking Machine Learning Engineers with expertise in model training, evaluation, and production-oriented ML systems. You’ll work on improving Lila’s AI models for customer-specific scientific needs, with a focus on turning frontier model capabilities into reliable workflows that can be evaluated, iterated, and used in real customer contexts. This is a rare chance to join an early team with the autonomy, flexibility, and compute to tackle frontier science problems.
Applied AI sits at the intersection of AI Research, model engineering, and product deployment. The team partners closely with AI Researchers and Software teams to adapt Lila models to customer workflows, improve model quality through experimentation, and ensure model behavior works well end to end inside the application.
This role is ideal for someone who can bridge research and engineering: training or adapting models, building evaluation loops, debugging model behavior, and collaborating across AI and Software to move promising capabilities into production-quality systems.
- Close the last-mile gap between Lila AI model capabilities and customer-specific scientific workflows.
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