Careers in scientific automation
Lila Sciences
<p><strong>Your Impact at LILA</strong></p> <p>We are looking for a Program Lead to own the strategy and execution of our Life Science artificial intelligence science fac
Lila Sciences is recruiting a Senior AI Lab Research Engineer to work on their scientific superintelligence platform for autonomous experimentation in life sciences, chemistry, and materials science. The role focuses on developing AI systems to revolutionize scientific discovery processes.
Lila Sciences is hiring a Head of Software Product for their scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous laboratory focused on life sciences, chemistry, and materials science. The position involves building AI capabilities to automate all aspects of the scientific method for accelerated discovery.
Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks offers graduate-level automation scientist internship positions in RAC Operations at their Boston facility. The company operates an automated foundry for engineering biological organisms to address challenges in health, energy, food, and materials.
VP of Engineering position to scale Lila's AI Science Factories globally and create unified platforms for autonomous experimentation. The role encompasses strategy and execution across hardware, automation, and systems engineering for scalable scientific automation.
<p><strong>Your Impact at LILA</strong></p> <p>Lila Sciences is applying its autonomous science platform to some of the hardest materials discovery problems in the world
Lila Sciences seeks a Technical Program Manager for their Life Sciences team applying autonomous science platforms to protein therapeutics, nucleic acid design, antibody discovery, and cell therapies. Role requires operational rigor to manage high-pace autonomous experimentation programs.
Lila Sciences seeks a Director of Instrument Development Acceleration to lead virtual lab teams and scale instrument deployment. Role focuses on high-throughput environments with success measured by instruments shipped.
Lila Sciences seeks a Senior Mechatronics Engineer to design electromechanical systems integrating hardware, software, electrical, and controls. Role involves writing control software to coordinate sensors for automated laboratory solutions.
<p><strong>Your Impact at LILA</strong></p> <p>Lila is building AI Science Factories (AISFs) — highly automated, AI-directed labs that generate the proprietary experiment
<p><strong>Your Impact at LILA</strong></p> <p>Lila Sciences is using its autonomous science platform to accelerate chemical discovery — from smarter synthesis pathways a
Senior software engineer position at Ginkgo Bioworks developing driver software for autonomous laboratory systems. Role focuses on integrating laboratory automation equipment within self-driving lab infrastructure for organism design and testing.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Recursion Pharmaceuticals Research Associate position for biology automation at their Milton Park facility. The role involves expanding in-vitro pharmacology capabilities through automated laboratory systems and workflows.
Lila Sciences seeks a Product Lead to develop an AI-native system of record for scientific discovery. The role involves deep domain expertise in either core software platforms or agentic science applications within dedicated scrum teams.
Lila Sciences talent community recruitment for future opportunities in Scientific Superintelligence™ development. Company focuses on AI-driven solutions for scientific challenges rather than traditional expert system approaches.
Lila Sciences seeks Controls Engineer for automated scientific equipment development. Role involves PLC controls, robotics integration, and laboratory automation system implementation within cross-functional engineering teams.
Drug Delivery Chemistry Scientist role focusing on high-throughput chemical synthesis platform development for medicinal chemistry applications. Responsibilities include synthesizing and optimizing novel molecules to establish structure-activity relationships for compound libraries.
Senior/Principal ML Scientist position on Lila's Foundation Models team developing large-scale generative models for life sciences. The role involves research and development of AI systems that enable automated scientific discovery in medical applications.
Lila Sciences seeks ML Scientists to develop large-scale generative models and reasoning frameworks for automated scientific discovery in life sciences. The role focuses on foundation models that integrate AI and automation to solve complex medical problems.
Lila Sciences seeks a Senior Research Associate for their Antibody Platform team to build Scientific Superintelligence capabilities. The position requires expertise in high-throughput antibody discovery, production, and characterization methods.
Lila Sciences offers a Product Strategy Intern position for their Chemistry team, focusing on commercializing AI-driven innovation across industrial and life science applications. The role involves market strategy development and go-to-market support for chemistry-focused AI products.
Lila Sciences seeks a Director of Data Platform Engineering to lead development of their Scientific Super Intelligence platform. The role involves end-to-end ownership of data infrastructure, architecture, and developer experience for AI-driven scientific applications.
Principal ML Engineer position at Lila to design and build production systems that operationalize generative models and reasoning frameworks. The role involves scaling ML infrastructure to power automated scientific discovery across life science domains.
Uncountable
Uncountable, a profitable SaaS company since 2016, is hiring full-stack engineers across multiple locations. The platform accelerates R&D for industrial scientists in materials, chemicals, and life sciences, reducing product development time by 50%.
Vivodyne
Vivodyne is seeking a senior full-stack engineer for their automated tissue testing platform that grows thousands of human tissues to predict drug safety. The role involves building React/FastAPI/Postgres applications for robotic laboratory systems.
Generate Biomedicines
<p><strong>About Generate:Biomedicines</strong></p> <p>Generate:Biomedicines is a new kind of therapeutics company – existing at the intersection of machine learning, bio
<p><strong>Your Impact at LILA</strong></p> <p>We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented <strong>Associate Engineer</strong> to join our high-throughput
Recursion Pharmaceuticals is hiring a Senior Automation/Medicinal Chemist position. The role appears focused on pharmaceutical automation and drug discovery chemistry applications.
Generate Biomedicines is recruiting Scientist positions for computational protein generation work. The roles focus on model-driven design approaches for protein engineering and therapeutic development.
Lila Sciences seeks Scientists to develop workflows for mRNA translation dynamics using next-generation pooled screening strategies. The role involves polysome profiling and Ribo-seq techniques to decode translation mechanisms.
Lila Sciences offers a DevOps Engineering internship in Product Operations, focusing on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. The position provides hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code in scientific computing environments.
Director position leading small molecule discovery chemistry programs with focus on organic synthesis and molecular design. The role involves building scalable chemistry execution capabilities that translate AI-generated molecular hypotheses into experimental validation workflows.
Pathos AI
Pathos AI is building an AI operating system for oncology drug development, featuring 200+ petabytes of linked patient data and the largest oncology foundation model in development. Founded by Tempus founder Eric Lefkofsky, they're hiring senior AI engineers for 0-to-1 product development.
Duplicate listing of Recursion Pharmaceuticals Principal Scientist, TechBio Discovery position. Role centers on advancing drug discovery through integration of biology and technology platforms.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals Principal Scientist position focused on TechBio discovery applications. The role involves leading technical biology research within their technology-enabled drug discovery platform.
Deep Genomics
Deep Genomics is hiring a Senior MLOps Engineer to support their AI-driven drug discovery platform. The role focuses on RNA biology analysis and novel therapeutic target identification using machine learning. The position supports the company's mission to revolutionize drug development through artificial intelligence.
<p><strong>The Role:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Generate Biomedicines is seeking a Research Associate II/Senior Research Associate to join our CryoEM Group in generating l
Recursion Pharmaceuticals seeks a Senior Computational Biologist for their Value Tech Tooling Team. The position focuses on developing computational tools and infrastructure to support their automated drug discovery pipeline.
Technical Program Manager role for AI Safety at Lila, coordinating safety initiatives across science, model training, and lab integration teams. The position focuses on preparing for risks from scientific superintelligence and managing operational aspects of AI safety research.
Generate:Biomedicines is hiring a Senior Scientist for cell-free protein synthesis applications. The company uses generative AI to computationally design novel therapeutics rather than traditional discovery methods, representing a shift toward AI-first drug development.
Lila Sciences seeks a Director of Nucleic Acid Delivery to lead development of next-generation delivery systems. The role focuses on engineering novel delivery platforms for nucleic acid therapeutics and gene therapy applications.
Commercial MBA internship position at Ginkgo Bioworks, focusing on bioengineering applications using automated foundry systems. Role involves business development in synthetic biology and engineered organism commercialization.
Foxglove
Foxglove, a data infrastructure and observability platform for robotics and physical AI, is hiring across multiple technical roles. Positions include senior engineers in Rust, ML, and frontend development, plus solutions engineering and product roles.
<p><strong>Your Impact at Lila</strong></p> <p>As EHS Coordinator at Lila Sciences, you will support the day-to-day operations of our environmental health, safety, and su
Recursion Pharmaceuticals seeks Director of Neuroscience to lead in vitro cellular biology initiatives. The role involves directing neuroscience research programs within the company's AI-driven drug discovery platform.
Isomorphic Labs
<div class="content-intro"><p>Isomorphic Labs is applying frontier AI to help unlock deeper scientific insights, faster breakthroughs, and life-changing medicines with an ambitio
<p><strong>The Role:</strong></p> <div data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">We are seeking an experienced hands on statistical programming expert to join our team
Project Debug
Project Debug deploys millions of sterile male mosquitoes in Singapore to reduce wild populations and prevent dengue transmission. The company achieved 95% reduction in female mosquitoes during trials in Fresno, CA and seeks a generalist engineer for their small team.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals is hiring a Research Associate for Primary Pharmacology to support their AI-driven drug discovery platform. The role involves conducting pharmacological assays and experiments as part of their computational biology approach to reimagining drug development.
Head of Computational Drug Design position at Isomorphic Labs in Cambridge, MA, applying frontier AI to accelerate drug discovery. Role involves leading computational approaches to unlock scientific insights and develop life-changing medicines.