Co-op, Agentic and Generative Protein Design

Lila Sciences|02 Nov 2026

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Listed location: Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USA

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Job Description

Your Impact at LILA

Our team works on AI methods for therapeutic protein design, with a tight loop between computation and the wet lab. A co-op could take on either of two tracks, or a mix of both. (1) Generative models and protein design pipelines: build, benchmark, and improve methods for designing proteins (such as antibodies and minibinders), with candidates tested in our lab so results are grounded in experimental data. (2) AI agents for protein design campaigns: build and evaluate agents that help plan campaign strategy (target and epitope selection, choosing methods and settings), execute campaigns (launching design and filtering runs, diagnosing failures, adapting the next round), and reason over biological priors from the literature alongside the outputs of domain-specific models. Either way, the co-op would own a well-scoped project, ship code and analyses that feed real design decisions and scientific outcomes.

What You'll Be Building

Develop, evaluate, and apply agentic systems for protein design and/or deep generative models for protein design.

What You'll Need to Succeed

Strong python and and computational science background.
Experience with coding agents.
Experience with machine learning for molecular design

Bonus Points For

Experience with customizing agents, building harnesses, or using agents for scientific applications
Solid technical understand and experience with generative models.

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.

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Is the Co-op, Agentic and Generative Protein Design position at Lila Sciences remote?

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What type of employment is the Co-op, Agentic and Generative Protein Design role?

Lila Sciences is hiring for a full-time Co-op, Agentic and Generative Protein Design position.

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