Scientist II/Senior Scientist, Solid-State Materials

Your Impact at LILA

As a Scientist II/Senior Scientist on the Vacuum Synthesis team at Lila Sciences, you will advance the design and synthesis of functional inorganic solid-state materials in support of Lila's autonomous science platform. You will design and execute multi-step preparations across diverse chemical systems, turning phase-diagram and crystal-chemistry reasoning into prioritized synthesis pathways and experimental feedback. You will partner with other synthetic materials scientists, characterization scientists, ML researchers, and systems engineers to close the synthesis-characterization-modeling loop and accelerate Lila's path to scientific superintelligence in functional materials.

What You'll Be Building

• Design and execute synthesis campaigns across multiple chemical systems and structure families, drawing on the breadth of solid-state preparative chemistry (melt routes, flux, vapor transport, soft-chemical, topochemical, single-crystal growth, and unconventional or high-pressure environments as the target phase demands).
• Translate phase-diagram, crystal-chemistry, and structure-property reasoning into concrete, prioritized synthesis pathways for novel functional inorganic compounds.
• Access metastable and kinetically trapped phases through appropriate low-temperature and s