Lila Sciences, San Francisco, CA USA +1
The Senior II/ Staff Software Engineer, Platform Operations will design, build, and operate the software applications, services, and systems that support Lila’s product and delivery platforms. This role is for a strong software developer who is comfortable working close to infrastructure, reliability, CI/CD, and cloud systems.
You will build production software across application services, internal tools, automation systems, deployment workflows, and reliability platforms. The right person brings strong software engineering fundamentals, product-minded execution, and the ability to use agentic coding tools to raise quality, increase delivery speed, and produce results beyond conventional software development approaches.
This role works closely with software engineers, ML engineers, and scientific teams to support platform operations, inference workloads, experiment orchestration, and application security. It is best suited for someone who wants to build durable software systems while improving how those systems are designed, deployed, monitored, and operated.
$180,000—$288,000 USD
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We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.
U.S. Benefits. Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program.
International Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.
Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.
Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.
Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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