Lila Sciences is seeking a Staff Senior Systems Engineer, OT to design, build, commission, and maintain the compute, storage, network, and virtualization infrastructure that underpins Lila’s Operational Technology environment across instruments, automation platforms, lab compute, and building automation systems. This role owns hands-on systems engineering for OT and Lab IT infrastructure and turns OT network and IT/OT convergence architecture into commissioned, reliable, secure systems that scientists and automation depend on every day.
This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Director, OT Operations & Security, working in close partnership with OT security architecture, corporate IT, controls and automation, the SOC, and laboratory operations leadership. Architectural intent — network topology, segmentation and conduit boundaries, storage tiering, host build standards — is set collaboratively; this role owns taking that intent from design into commissioned, validated, documented systems and keeping them running. The right person operates with high autonomy inside an established architecture, sets technical direction for implementation patterns, engineering standards, and operational practice, and serves as the senior technical authority for how OT infrastructure is built, commissioned, and maintained across Lila’s OT estate.
This is a foundational hire for Lila’s OT program. Lila is building autonomous laboratories where reliability and security are designed into laboratory platforms before they ship, and our governing survivability standard is simple: if the WAN drops for 72 hours, science continues — on-premises first, locally survivable, with cloud as an extension rather than a dependency. The work spans new buildouts and standardization across active lab sites, so bringing existing environments up to a common standard is as much of this role as building what comes next.