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Controls Engineer at Lila Sciences - ApplyBlast

Controls Engineer

Lila Sciences

3 months ago

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Onsite

Full Time

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About this role

Lila is looking for a Controls Engineer to support the reliability and lifecycle performance of automated scientific equipment in its lab operations environment. The role focuses on troubleshooting, maintaining, and improving PLC, SCADA, robotics, and instrumentation systems, as well as managing upgrades, preventive maintenance, and documentation. It is an execution‑focused position aimed at increasing equipment uptime, reducing recurring faults, and enhancing safety and maintainability of automation workflows.

Responsibilities

Maintain and improve deployed PLC, SCADA, and robotics control systems
Troubleshoot incidents across controls, robotics, instrumentation, and networking
Perform root cause analysis and implement fixes to reduce recurring faults
Plan preventive maintenance, patching, backups, upgrades, and component lifecycle work
Track uptime, MTBF, MTTR, and recurring faults to guide reliability improvements

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About Lila Sciences

lila.ai

Company Size

1-10 employees

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Lila Sciences is building a scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous labs for life, chemical, and materials sciences. They place AI at the center of discovery—combining advanced models, autonomous workflows, and lab automation to rapidly generate, execute, and validate experiments at scale. Their mission is to expand human knowledge and accelerate breakthroughs to tackle some of humankind’s greatest challenges.