Machine Learning Engineers (Open-Endedness) - Open Level

🚀 About Lila Sciences

Lila Sciences is the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science.  We are pioneering a new age of boundless discovery by building the capabilities to apply AI to every aspect of the scientific method.  We are introducing scientific superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges, enabling scientists to bring forth solutions in human health, climate, and sustainability at a pace and scale never experienced before. Learn more about this mission at  www.lila.ai    

At Lila, we are uniquely cross-functional and collaborative. We are actively reimagining the way teams work together and communicate. Therefore, we seek individuals with an inclusive mindset and a diversity of thought. Our teams thrive in unstructured and creative environments. All voices are heard because we know that experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way.

If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, please apply.

🌟 Your Impact at Lila

Lila Sciences is seeking experienced, creative, and talented Machine Learning Engineers (Open-Endedness) across Engineer, Senior Engineer, and Principal Engineer levels to join our team. Title will be determined by merit and experience level.   

Open-Endedness is an emerging area of machine learning that aims to automate never-ending innovative processes of discovery and exploration.  The Open-Endedness Team, led by Ken Stanley, investigates in particular how a continual chain of deep transformative creativity can be maintained that far exceeds the derivative creativity seen in current models.  In effect, the systems developed on this team will go beyond simply solving problems posed by users, to conceiving the future unimagined directions of science itself. 

To realize this vision and to facilitate daring and unconventional investigations, we’re seeking ML pros skilled in large-scale generative models, data pipelines, and software engineering excellence. 

🛠️ What You'll Be Building

• Designing data pipelines for machine learning on multi-node GPU clusters
• Training large language models including domain adaptation and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) as part of an agentic framework  
• Implementing robust evaluation frameworks, including custom benchmarks, to rigorously test model performance and reliability
• Integrating ML solutions into production environments  

🧰 What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Master’s or PhD degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Physics, Mathematics) or equivalent industry experience
• Strong background in deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX)  
• Experience with distributed computing platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-prem clusters)
• Git/GitHub Experience  
• CI/CD Platform Experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.)  

✨ Bonus Points For

• Hands-on experience training very large parameter models (e.g., 70B+ parameter LLMs)   
• Kubernetes and Docker experience for scalable, reproducible workflows

🌈 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.

🤝 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.