Senior Research Associate / Associate Scientist, Protein Science, Antibody Platform
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Overview
Job Description
Your Impact at LILA
Lila Sciences is seeking an experienced Senior Research Associate to join our Antibody Platform team. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in building Lila's Scientific Superintelligence platform by leveraging your deep expertise in high-throughput antibody discovery, production, and characterization.
What You'll Be Building
- Design, optimize and execute high-throughput workflows for antibody expression and purification. Drive platform evolution by identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, robustness, and scalability of antibody production.
- Collaborate closely with scientists, engineers, and automation experts to discover, evaluate and implement novel automation tools, technologies, and reagents to expand the Antibody Platform’s capabilities.
- Innovate and adapt protocols to accommodate new antibody formats, targets, and expression strategies.
- Analyze antibody yield and binding characteristics using biolayer interferometry (BLI) and other relevant techniques; interpret and communicate findings effectively.
- Ensure data quality, documentation, and reproducibility in all experiments; actively contribute to knowledge sharing and continuous improvement initiatives. Collaboration, flexibility, and creative problem-solving are key to thrive in this dynamic role.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Bioengineering, or related discipline with 2–5+ years of hands-on industry or academic experience.
- Proficiency with antibody expression in CHO-S, including DNA transfection, small-scale cell culture, and antibody characterization; ExpiCHO expertise strongly preferred.
- Experience using sequence analysis software for molecular biology workflows and annotating antibody sequences, specifically Geneious, Benchling, PipeBio, etc.
- Experience with liquid handling automation and high-throughput formats.
- Experience with biolayer interferometry (BLI) or surface plasmon resonance (SPR) quantitative binding assays, CE-SDS, and antibody developability assays.
- Outstanding troubleshooting skills, adaptability, and ability to drive innovation in experimental design.
- Familiarity with laboratory data analysis, digital recordkeeping, and collaborative scientific workflows.
- Strong communication skills and an eagerness to collaborate with a fast-paced, cross-functional team.
Bonus Points For
- Skilled in cloning, expression and optimization of multispecific antibody formats
- Data analysis using relevant software (Python, R, Spotfire, or similar)
- Scripting for automation platforms
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.
Expected Base Salary Range
$80,000 - $118,000USD
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.
We’re All In
Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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A Note to Agencies
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