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Intern, Analytical Chemistry

at Lila Sciences

Location

Cambridge, MA USA

Type

intern

Posted

2 months ago

Job description

Your Impact at LILA

You will contribute to day-to-day analytical lab operation, develop analytical methods, acquire high-quality data, and collaborate with scientists and engineers to push the boundaries of autonomous chemistry. Your work will feed directly into closed-loop optimization campaigns that shorten the path from idea to discovery. This is a full hands-on role.

What You'll Be Building

Develop high throughput optimization cycles for chemical analysis
Utilize PAT to monitor reaction progress and end products (solids, liquids, gases), develop and optimize methods for analytical screening
Work with scientists to analyze and benchmark product profiles, propose subsequent closed-loop cycles and validate, perform QCs, present reports on findings
Digital log of experimental conditions, metadata, and results to ensure data integrity for AI-driven analysis.
Follow EHS best practices for handling reagents, maintaining flow equipment, and calibrating analytical instruments

What You’ll Need to Succeed

Currently pursuing (PhD) or recently completed an **M.S. + 2 years (**in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry or related discipline)
Hands-on experience in high-throughput methodology development and organic chemical product analysis on LC, MS, IR, NMR
Comfort working in wet-lab environments and following detailed SOPs.
Effective written and verbal communication; ability to work in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary team

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

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