# Staff Software Engineer, AI Safety 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; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-16
- Apply by: 2026-11-30
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lilasciences/jobs/4423484009?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lila-sciences-staff-software-engineer-ai-safety/

## About the role

We're building a talent-dense, high-agency AI safety team at Lila that will engage all core teams within the organization (science, model training, lab integration, etc.), to identify and mitigate risks from scientific superintelligence while retaining the core scientific discovery capabilities of the stack. The initial focus of this team will be to build and implement a bespoke safety strategy for Lila, tailored to its specific goals and deployment strategies. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- A track record of independently delivering and maintaining production software, including projects with ambiguous or changing requirements
- Strong Python and backend engineering skills, with experience designing APIs, working with databases and building dependable data or execution pipelines
- Experience translating the needs of researchers, domain experts or other technical users into usable tools, and comfort working across services and interfaces
- Sound engineering judgment in system design, testing and debugging, including practical decisions about reliability, performance and complexity
- Engineering experience in AI research, AI safety, scientific computing or other settings with rapidly evolving experimental workflows
- Clear communication and an interest in scientific AI safety, with the ability to understand research context and make informed engineering decisions

Tags: AI

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