Senior Data Scientist, Life Sciences AI & Lab Automation

Lila Sciences; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

Lila Sciences in Cambridge, MA is building a scientific superintelligence platform to accelerate discovery in medicine, materials, and energy. We seek a Data Scientist, Life Sciences to join LS AI Data Science and bridge wet-lab science, software engineering, automation, and AI.

You will transform experimental data into actionable insights, translate bench workflows into validated analytical requirements, and develop scalable analysis patterns that help multiple programs.

Qualifications

• Background in biological sciences, life sciences data, or bioinformatics.
• Strong Python proficiency for scientific data analysis (pandas, numpy, scipy).
• Solid grounding in applied statistics and exploratory data analysis.
• Experience eliciting, documenting, and validating requirements from scientific and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to identify unstated assumptions and clarify ambiguous analytical requests.
• Experience producing reproducible, well-documented analyses.
• Strong communication with technical collaborators and bench scientists.
• Proactive, detail-oriented approach to ambiguous scientific problems.

Responsibilities

• Own requirements discovery across lab, automation, software, and AI teams.
• Translate experimental and operational questions into well-scoped analyses.
• Develop bioinformatics and data-processing pipelines for raw assay outputs.
• Build reusable analysis modules that improve reproducibility across studies.
• Integrate analytical workflows with centralized data lake and AI platform systems.
• Identify gaps in LIMS flows, data management, and automation workflows.
• Document methods, assumptions, and results for technical and scientific audiences.

Skills

Python data analysis (pandas, numpy,sc

Communication

Attention to detail

proactive

Tools

Bioinformatics tools

Workflow orchestrators Flyte/Temporal

Job description

Lila Sciences in Cambridge, MA is building a scientific superintelligence platform to accelerate discovery in medicine, materials, and energy. We seek a Data Scientist, Life Sciences to join LS AI Data Science and bridge wet-lab science, software engineering, automation, and AI.

You will transform experimental data into actionable insights, translate bench workflows into validated analytical requirements, and develop scalable analysis patterns that help multiple programs.