Senior Data Engineer, Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Materials

Your Impact at LILA

Lila’s mission is to accelerate scientific discovery with AI, and that depends on trustworthy scientific data. As a Data Engineer, you’ll build ETL pipelines and data models for Lila’s scientific data platform, working at the intersection of data engineering, computational biology, chemistry, and materials science.

You’ll partner with AI researchers and experimentalists to turn raw lab instrument outputs into validated, analysis-ready datasets. The core challenge is data modeling: transforming messy, per-instrument measurements into clean, well-typed data that is efficient to query, reliable to use, and ready for downstream analysis.

You’ll also build domain-specific analysis functions and reusable data pipelines that help scientists and AI researchers move faster without re-deriving bespoke solutions.

What You'll Be Building

• Design pipelines that turn raw lab output into analysis-ready scientific data. • Model heterogeneous data from bio, chemistry, and materials instruments. • Build validation checks, schema-evolution gates, and data quality workflows. • Develop reusable analysis functions for scientific and AI research workflows. • Improve automation and observability across instrument-to-result data flows. • Build canonical datasets that scientists and AI researchers can trust. • Use AI coding tools to accelerate pipeline development and team velocity.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• 2–6 years of experience in data engineering, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, or computational science. •

Strong Python skills, including typed, tested, produc