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Staff/Principal Engineer, Search & Retrieval at Lila Sciences - ApplyBlast

Staff/Principal Engineer, Search & Retrieval

Lila Sciences

4 days ago

San Francisco, California, United States

Onsite

Full Time

Senior

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About this role

Lila Sciences is seeking a Staff/Principal Engineer to own the search and retrieval infrastructure for scientific knowledge, including literature, patents, and lab protocols. The role involves building a RAG system and a scientific knowledge graph to enable autonomous research and traceable answers for scientists and AI agents. This senior individual contributor role requires technical leadership in defining the shared retrieval foundation and ensuring high-quality, permission-aware search across enterprise workloads.

Responsibilities

Define and build the shared retrieval foundation for scientific workloads
Build a scientific knowledge graph linking literature to experimental records
Own the end-to-end retrieval pipeline and evaluation harness

Skills

Qualifications

BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field of study

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.