# Senior Software Engineer I/II, Back-end/Data, Robotics 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: Senior
- Location: Cambridge, MA USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lilasciences/jobs/4339324009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lila-sciences-senior-software-engineer-i-ii-back-end-data-robotics/

## About the role

You will build the back-end and data foundations of the systems that schedule work across our autonomous labs, model them as digital twins, and turn raw experimental output into trustworthy, queryable data. In Robotics, you'll own core services scientists, operators, and engineers rely on daily — the ones that decide how efficiently our robots run and how much our scientists trust their data.

## What they're looking for

- 4–8 years of back-end engineering: production services in Python (FastAPI) at scale
- Data engineering: pipelines on a workflow orchestrator such as Flyte, Temporal, or similar
- Data modeling across stores: hands-on SQL (PostgreSQL), object storage (S3), and data lakehouse architectures
- Cloud-native delivery: a major cloud with containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD — ideally AWS EKS (Docker/ECR), Terraform, and GitHub Actions
- End-to-end ownership: taking services from design through delivery, reliability, and iteration
- Clear collaboration: communicating technical tradeoffs plainly with engineers, scientists, and business partners

Tags: Robotics