# ML Research Scientist, Scientific Evaluations at Lila Sciences

- Company: Lila Sciences
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Cambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USA
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $176K–304K
- Posted: 2026-11-10
- Skills: ML, LLMs, Evaluation
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lilasciences/jobs/4472554009

## Description

Your Impact at LILA 
 Lila is building a platform where AI and automation co-evolve to accelerate scientific discovery. Our AI Research team is looking to hire a ML Research Scientist to focus on building scientific problems and environments to evaluate frontier LLMs on.
 What You'll Be Building 
• Design and prototype new evals and environments for science — creating high-quality evaluations, identifying environment failures, and patching model capability gaps.
• Invent new types of RL environments — explore creative ways to turn scientific workflows, simulators, and real-world tasks into training signal.
• Build end-to-end pipelines for synthetic environment generation — transforming raw assets (papers, codebases, lab protocols) into validated, versioned training environments at scale.
• Prototype and validate environment designs — from initial concept through reward shaping, data collection, and integration with the training loop.
 What You'll Need to Succeed 
• Experience applying ML or computation to biology, chemistry, or material sciences.
• A strong track record of creating environments or evaluations for model training
• Experience building large, complex data pipelines for model training or production.
• Strong prototyping and coding skills — comfortable quickly building and iterating on new ideas in Python.
• Creativity and research intuition — ability to identify promising directions, design experiments, and navigate ambiguity.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals — clean code, version control, testing, and ability to integrate experimental work into shared

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