Principal Software Engineer, App
$204k - $348k • Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA • Full-time
Posted 5mo ago
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Job Location
Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
Full-time
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
LILA is building a platform to enable scientists to seamlessly collaborate with AI, moving from hypothesis to results without context-switching between numerous tools. The Application Team integrates Machine Learning, Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences into an AI-native experience. This role involves designing and building agents, interfaces, and platform integrations that allow researchers to work with AI effectively. The work is challenging, requiring innovation in connecting AI to automated lab workflows and knowledge graphs, and offers opportunities to learn new domains and ship impactful tools that accelerate research.
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-performance, secure, and well-documented UI and APIs that integrate with AI-driven applications.
- Develop schemas and manage diverse data systems (SQL, NoSQL, Vector DBs, etc.) for optimal performance and scalability.
- Drive the implementation of front-end and backend services, focusing on performance, maintainability, and reliability.
- Diagnose and optimize system bottlenecks, ensuring high availability and low-latency performance across large-scale workloads.
- Leverage AWS services, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices to build and deploy production-grade systems at scale.
- Collaborate with ML researchers, engineers, and scientists to integrate data pipelines, APIs, and cloud infrastructure into scientific workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 8-15 years of engineering experience building and deploying large-scale systems in production.
- Strong proficiency in either front-end or backend development.
- Full Stack Development experience (React, TypeScript, Monorepos like Nx, TailWind, FastAPI, SQL/NoSQL, Python, Pydantic).
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants to drive productivity.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas to diverse audiences.
- Proven ability to take ownership of complex backend challenges, balancing trade-offs between scalability, performance, and maintainability.
Benefits
- Competitive base compensation with bonus potential
- Generous early-stage equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage (U.S.)
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance (U.S.)
- Flexible time off with generous company-wide holidays (U.S.)
- Paid parental leave (U.S.)
- Educational assistance program (U.S.)
- Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships (U.S.)
- Company-subsidized lunch program (U.S.)
- International benefits tailored to region