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Machine Learning Scientist, LLM Training & Inference Research

Pioneering Intelligence

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Aug 22, 2025
Cambridge, MA, US
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Lila Sciences is looking to solve humankind's greatest challenges in human health, climate, and sustainability by pioneering a new age of boundless discovery through a scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science.

Requirements

  • Strong background in LLM training and deployment.
  • Research experience in scalable compute techniques.
  • Experience applying LLMs to scientific or technical data.

Responsibilities

  • Lead research on how we train and serve LLMs for scientific applications.
  • Develop and optimize LLM post-training strategies including SFT, RLHF, and RL with verifiers.
  • Design test-time compute and efficient inference mechanisms for complex tool use environments.
  • Build scalable evaluations for LLM performance on scientific reasoning.
  • Explore the limits of frontier LLM based approaches for scientific tasks and quantifying their failure modes.

Other

  • If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, we encourage you to apply.
  • Publications or contributions to open-source frameworks welcome.
  • Work in collaborative cross-functional ML environments.
  • 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.