# Staff Senior Systems Engineer, OT 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: 2026-07-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lilasciences/jobs/4330472009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lila-sciences-staff-senior-systems-engineer-ot/

## About the role

Lila Sciences is seeking a Staff Senior Systems Engineer, OT to design, build, commission, and maintain the compute, storage, network, and virtualization infrastructure that underpins Lila’s Operational Technology environment across instruments, automation platforms, lab compute, and building automation systems.

## What they're looking for

- Hands-on virtualization experience — design, deploy, and operate. Proxmox VE is our platform, deep VMware vSphere or Hyper-V experience transfers well
- Deep systems administration across Windows Server and Windows client, and Linux where applicable: Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and failover clustering
- Strong networking and segmentation fundamentals: VLANs, firewall policy, TCP/IP, routing, DNS, DHCP, and packet analysis, plus a working understanding of how on-premises infrastructure connects to cloud
- Experience taking infrastructure from procurement and design through cutover and stabilization — commissioning systems end to end, not just configuring them in isolation
- Infrastructure-as-code and scripting experience (Terraform, PowerShell, Python, APIs), and the instinct to automate a task rather than repeat it
- Experience designing and operating backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions where local survivability, not cloud failover, is the requirement

Tags: Business Operations