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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Onsite
Your Impact at LILA
Lila Sciences is seeking a Scientist I/II, X-ray Diffraction Characterization to join the Materials Science team within the Autonomous Science Platform. The Autonomous Science Platform combines experimental science, automation, AI, and software to accelerate materials discovery. This role turns X-ray diffraction measurements into trusted, machine-readable structural, phase, and thin-film data that supports scientific decisions, automated workflows, and model development.
You will develop, validate, and operate XRD characterization workflows across a range of materials systems, including powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), X-ray reflectometry (XRR), grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD), and associated analyses. You will prepare samples for XRD measurement, run measurements, interpret diffraction and reflectometry data, troubleshoot data-quality issues, and build methods that ensure characterization data is accurate, reproducible, and fit for purpose.
You will also help translate XRD expertise into scalable analyzer workflows. Partnering with AI, software, automation, and experimental teams, you will support data ingestion, metadata capture, provenance, quality control, and analysis pipelines that make diffraction outputs reliable, traceable, and useful at scale.
The ideal candidate combines strong experimental judgment in XRD characterization with a deep commitment to making scientific data “good”: reliable, interpretable, reproducible, and trusted by the teams that use it.
What You'll Be Building
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Compensation
We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.
U.S. Benefits. Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program.
International Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.
About LILA
Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.
Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.
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