Scientist I/II, Process Chemistry

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and optimize process-relevant chemical transformations to support Discovery Chemistry programs
• Develop reaction and process workflows with emphasis on engineering rigor, scalability, and data quality
• Apply high-throughput experimentation (HTE) to reaction screening and process optimization
• Build workflows connecting reaction setup, workup, analytical readout, and data capture
• Contribute to digitally enabled process chemistry workflows and integration with AI-ready systems
• Collaborate with automation and platform teams to adapt workflows for robotics-enabled experimentation
• Evaluate reaction performance through chemistry and engineering lenses, including yield, selectivity, and robustness

Requirements

• PhD in Process Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Medicinal Chemistry, or related discipline
• Strong hands-on experience in process chemistry, reaction development, or scale-relevant synthetic chemistry
• Demonstrated experience applying engineering principles to chemical process design and optimization
• Experience with HTE for reaction or process screening and data-rich experimentation
• Experience with reaction workup, sample handling, purification, and analytical interpretation
• Ability to generate well-structured experimental data for digital workflows
• Strong collaborative skills across chemistry, analytics, automation, and computational teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Discovery Chemistry or small molecule R&D in biotech or pharma
• Familiarity with miniaturized process screening, parallel reactors, or robotics-enabled platforms
• Experience with the digitalization of process chemistry, including ELNs and workflow automation
• Ability to connect chemistry execution with broader platform goals like automation compatibility

About the Company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously.