Lila Sciences - Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Automated Safety
Requirements
• Strong empirical judgment, practical programming ability and experience working with modern AI systems. • The ability to investigate ambiguous failures, design informative comparisons and communicate limitations clearly. • An interest in scientific misuse risks and the ability to collaborate productively with domain specialists. • For the Research Scientist profile: evidence of selecting valuable research questions, developing or adapting methods, and designing experiments that yield defensible conclusions. You should be able to prototype and test your ideas. • For the Research Scientist profile: • For the Research Engineer profile: evidence of building reliable research software, evaluation infrastructure or agent systems that enable reproducible experiments and efficient iteration. You should be able to contribute to experimental design and interpretation. • For the Research Engineer profile: • Automated red teaming, adversarial testing or evaluation-method research. • Scientific AI, tool-using agents, laboratory automation or other complex environments. • Experience with safety monitoring, model-based evaluators or scalable experimental infrastructure.
Responsibilities
• What You'll Be Building • Develop and run capability evaluations of scientific models, agents and tool-mediated workflows (including simulated lab environments), working with domain experts to make tests scientifically meaningful. • Create methods or systems that explore diverse failure modes, adapt tests as evidence emerges and support systematic investigation beyond fixed benchmarks. • Build reproducible experiments and evaluation tools that capture relevant behavior, outcomes and the evidence needed to interpret findings. • Measure the quality and coverage of automated assessments, including failure cases in the evaluators themselves. • Develop broader safety automation, across threat model management, evidence triage, regression testing, monitoring workflows or tools that help researchers assess and respond to risks. • Collaborate with risk researchers and mitigation engineers to translate findings into improved assessments and safeguards, and verify whether those changes work.
Benefits
• 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. • $180,000—$298,000 USD • 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. • We’re All In • 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. • Information you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy. • A Note to Agencies • A Note to Agencies • Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.
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