Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Soft Materials Experimentation at Lila Sciences
- Company: Lila Sciences
- Location: Cambridge, MA USA
- Employment type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-24
About the role
Your Impact at LILA . Lila is hiring a Scientific Leader to build and run our experimental soft materials team, covering formulations, polymers, colloids, gels, emulsions, inks, adhesives, and coatings. You will take on a group of four scientists and grow it as the portfolio expands across formulation, rheological and scattering characterization, and polymer processing. The team turns soft-matter problems into closed-loop autonomous workflows: defining what gets measured, how it gets measured at throughput, and how the resulting data supports active learning and inverse design. The work asks you to stay close to the bench while mentoring a growing team and setting its direction over a multi-year growth horizon. What You'll Be Building .…
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