Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI is open at Lila Sciences in Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA. The posting gives a salary of $204K - $310K. Posted on Oct 6, 2025, and still on Lila Sciences’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
, you will design and optimize the backend systems, data pipelines, and AI integrations that power intelligent, data-driven applications. You’ll work at the intersection of backend engineering and machine learning, ensuring our platform seamlessly scales and supports cutting-edge applied AI techniques such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic AI, and large language model (LLM) integration. This role is…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Lila Sciences’s careers page.
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