Director/ Senior Director, Lab Platform Engineering

Your Impact at LILA

Lila is hiring a Director of Lab Platform Engineering to lead the team that builds and operates the hybrid on-premises and cloud infrastructure behind our automated labs. You will own the platform strategy for a fleet of distributed lab sites and lead the engineers who make new sites come online reliably and repeatably.

Lab Platform Engineering builds and supports the platforms and software that keep Lila's AI Science Factory™ running: bare metal clusters, cloud infrastructure, secure identity and secrets services, resilient storage, and the APIs and tooling that let scientists and engineers ship software to production. Every robot, instrument, and lab workflow depends on these systems.

This is a leadership role on a team being built now. You will grow the organization to 10 to 15 engineers, set multi-year technical direction, and partner with robotics, lab operations, research, and security leaders on what the platform needs to support next.

What You'll Be Building

• Build and lead a team of 10 to 15 engineers, including managers and tech leads. Hire, develop, and retain engineers at every level.
• Set multi-year technical vision and strategy for hybrid edge and cloud infrastructure across distributed lab sites.
• Own platform roadmap and delivery, shipping on a predictable cadence against commitments made to partner teams.
• Own fleet operations and reliability, including service levels, on-call, and incident response across sites.
• Own infrastructure budget, capacity planning, and vendor relationships.
• Partner cross-functionally with robotics