Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer at lilasciences

Compensation

$180,000 – $298,000/yr

Location: San Francisco, California
Type: Full-time
Level: staff+
Posted: Jul 24, 2026

Description

Lila Sciences is hiring a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Applied AI team to improve and productionize AI models for customer-specific scientific workflows. The role focuses on LLM training, evaluation, debugging model behavior, and building reusable tooling and experimentation loops that connect research and engineering to deliver reliable, end-to-end product capabilities. The position offers a competitive U.S. base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits for full-time employees.

Required Skills

Machine learning
Python
PyTorch
Distributed training
Experiment design
Debugging

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Experience building, training, adapting, or evaluating machine learning models
Experience with distributed ML training frameworks
Experience designing experiments, evaluation metrics, or test sets
Experience working across research and engineering teams
Experience with large language models, multi-modal models, or agentic AI systems
Preferred Qualifications: Experience adapting models for customer-facing or production workflows
Experience with scientific, technical, or data-intensive customer use cases
Experience building evaluation harnesses, model monitoring, or quality dashboards
Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, or agentic workflows
Experience with RL post-training
Experience training MoE architectures