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About the Role

Architect and build Lila's test automation platform and quality engineering practice for AI-powered scientific and lab automation products. Own the test automation system, CI/CD test infrastructure, AI-driven test tooling, and the eval discipline. This is a builder-leader role focused on driving quality vision, making build-vs-buy decisions, and leading a small team.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship the test automation platform, including frameworks, fixtures, golden datasets, test orchestration, and reporting.
• Set standards for unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, regression, performance, and chaos testing.
• Treat platform adoption, flake rate, and time-to-signal as first-class engineering metrics.
• Own the buy/build/borrow strategy across test infrastructure, eval platforms, browser/device clouds, observability, and lab QC tooling.
• Justify choices with TCO, signal quality, integration cost, and time-to-leverage.
• Bias toward leverage: buy commodity capabilities, build differentiators.
• Own the test execution layer of CI/CD, including parallelization, caching, hermetic environments, ephemeral preview envs, and affected-only test selection.
• Build retry, quarantine, and impact-analysis systems.
• Drive change-failure rate, MTTR, Test effectiveness, pipeline efficiency, coverage, and PR-to-prod lead time as outcomes.
• Apply LLMs across the full test lifecycle: test generation, self-healing UI tests, synthesis, visual regression, and AI-assisted failure triage.
• Validate every AI-generated test through evals.
• Establish the eval discipline for Lila's AI/agent stack.
• Define and operate the quality metrics system, including quality SLOs and adoption metrics.
• Build dashboards that make quality visible from PR to executive review.
• Apply Google SRE practices to prioritize investment.
• Design the validation framework, harnesses, and contracts for lab automation QC.
• Embed ALCOA+ principles for data integrity, audit trails, and lineage.
• Partner with Research Ops on validation patterns for autonomous lab execution.
• Build a 3–5 person team of test automation engineers.
• Coach engineering teams on test design, quality investments, and adoption.
• Translate UX and customer issues into testable contracts and platform improvements.

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years leading test automation, quality engineering, or platform/SRE-adjacent functions.
• 3+ years managing engineers, including building or scaling a team.
• Strong software architect/engineer.
• Deep CI/CD expertise.
• Demonstrated build-vs-buy judgment.
• Hands-on AI-driven test automation experience.
• Track record of standing up a test automation platform that engineering teams adopted.
• Working knowledge of Google's SRE practices.
• Metrics-driven leader who drives outcomes through platform leverage and influence.
• Customer- and UX-first instincts.

Skills

• Python
• Typescript
• GitHub Actions
• Nx
• Turborepo
• Bazel
• LLMs
• Google SRE practices

Location

• U.S.

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• Director

Salary/Compensations

• $260,000—$390,000 USD

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance program
• Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships
• Company subsidized lunch program
• International benefits tailored to region

About the Company

• Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges.
• We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI.
• 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.
• Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance.

Equal Opportunity

• Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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