Your Impact at LILA
This Machine Learning Engineer for the Physical Sciences team focuses on building and operating end-to-end, scalable machine learning workflows that solve a diversity scientific use cases in materials, chemistry and physical sciences. Your work will advance research efforts on state-of-the-art algorithms to build towards scientific superintelligence across today's greatest challenges in physical sciences.
What You'll Be Building
- Design, implement, and maintain endtoend ML pipelines (data ingestion, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring).
- Productionize models and services with robust testing, observability, and documentation in collaboration with cross-functional software teams and build CI/CD workflows and automated evaluations to ensure safe, frequent releases.
- Collaborate with domain scientists and platform engineers to translate research insights into performant, scalable systems.
- Contribute to technical design reviews, coding standards, and mentoring of best practices.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Strong Python software engineering fundamentals (testing, packaging, typing); experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Huggingface, etc.).
- Experience deploying ML services to production in cloud-based infrastructure (FastAPI/GRPC, containers, orchestration, cloud infra).
- Handson experience with model deployment in production systems (LLMs, multimodal models, databases, RAG) with strong debugging and profiling skills.
- Clear communication and collaboration in crossfunctional settings.
Bonus Points For
- Exposure to scientific or engineering domains (materials, chemistry, physics) and related data formats/benchmarks.
- GPU optimization experience (CUDA, Triton, compilation, distributed training).
- Prior contributions to opensource ML or scientific software.
- Experience with workflow orchestration, data provenance, or largescale compute environments.