Senior Software Engineer, ML Research

Your Impact at LILA

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to team with our Machine Learning Engineers and Researchers to build software that powers Lila’s ML workflows and research tooling. You will be on a team of software engineers that work alongside machine learning experts to develop, support, and maintain Lila’s ML libraries and tools.

What You’ll Be Building

• Design and build high-performance, secure, and well-documented Machine Learning libraries that implement the algorithms designed by machine learning researchers and engineers.
• CI/CD pipelines and integration tests for ML workflows.
• Architect repository designs to follow consistent standards.
• Support debugging, logging, and maintenance for Ray-based compute environments.
• Data ingestion pipelines linking lab data to ML teams.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Minimum of 8 years of experience writing software in a commercial setting in Go or Python.
• Experience implementing scalable software solutions.
• Experience with MLOps systems, GitOps (ArgoCD, Github Actions)
• Familiarity with orchestration frameworks (Ray, Argo, Airflow).
• Proficiency in Containerization, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Acute listening skills and patience to deeply understand complex problems and algorithms.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and team-first mentality.
• Energetic self-starter and independent thinker with strong attention to detail.
• Eager to work with highly skilled and dynamic teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and technical setting.

Bonus Points For

• Proficiency with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
• Research engineering or scientific software experience.