Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Agentic AI Research for Materials Science is open at Lila Sciences in Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA. The posting gives a salary of $288K - $420K. Posted on Jul 10, 2026, and still on Lila Sciences’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
Your Impact at LILA Own the technical direction for agentic AI systems applied to materials science at Lila. You will set and execute the roadmap for autonomous agents that plan, run, and interpret materials experiments, based on understanding of internal knowledge and state-of-the-art research work in public literature. Your work shifts materials research from human-paced iteration to machine-paced experimentation…
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