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Senior Research Associate / Associate Scientist, Characterization

Lila Sciences
Cambridge, MA

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Job Details

$80,000 - $118,000 a year

Qualifications

Data quality checks
Instrumentation troubleshooting
System troubleshooting
Sample preparation
Scientific research
Testing and evaluation
Equipment troubleshooting
Policy & process development
Scientific protocols
Quality issues
Data quality monitoring
Materials analysis (analytical chemistry specialty)
Laboratory standard operating procedures
Standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Measurement (quality control)

Full Job Description

Your Impact at LILA

Lila Sciences is seeking a Senior Research Associate / Associate Scientist, Characterization to join the Materials Science team within the Autonomous Science Platform. This role focuses on operating, maintaining, and improving characterization workflows that support active materials research campaigns.

The person in this role will run and troubleshoot core characterization methods, including SEM, optical microscopy, and XRD, while helping bring new instruments and protocols into reliable use. They will partner with scientists, engineers, and platform teams to deliver high-quality measurements, document methods, and keep characterization workflows moving efficiently.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys careful experimental work, dependable lab operations, and practical method development. The ideal candidate brings strong attention to detail, comfort working with scientific equipment, and interest in building repeatable workflows that support fast, high-quality research.

What You'll Be Building

Operate SEM, optical microscopy, XRD, and related characterization workflows.
Prepare samples and measurement plans for routine characterization requests.
Maintain instrument readiness through checks, calibration, documentation, and troubleshooting.
Develop and refine protocols for new tools, methods, and sample types.
Deliver high-quality measurement data with clear records and traceable methods.
Identify workflow bottlenecks and improve throughput, reliability, and data quality.
Partner with Materials Science, platform, and operations teams on campaign needs.

What You'll Need to Succeed

B.S. or M.S. in Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, or a related field.
2 to 5 years of hands-on laboratory experience in materials characterization or adjacent workflows.
Experience operating SEM, optical microscopy, XRD, or other common materials characterization tools.
Strong sample preparation, measurement planning, and experimental documentation skills.
Ability to troubleshoot instruments, workflows, and data-quality issues.
Comfort following SOPs while improving protocols as methods mature.
Strong communication skills for coordinating with scientists, engineers, and operations teams.

Bonus Points For

Familiarity with materials sample preparation for microscopy or diffraction workflows.
Experience onboarding new lab equipment, methods, or characterization protocols.
Comfort working in high-throughput or service-oriented lab environments.
Basic data analysis, visualization, or scripting experience for measurement workflows.

About LILA

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

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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