Director/Senior Director, Molecular Discovery

Lilasciences · Cambridge, MA USA; London; San Francisco, CA USA

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Company
Lilasciences
Location
Cambridge, MA USA; London; San Francisco, CA USA
Posted
September 26, 2026

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Your Impact at LILA The Director, Molecular Discovery is responsible for ensuring our autonomous science platform reliably and repeatedly delivers validated small-molecule drug candidates against designated targets at increasing speed. The platform generates and tests hypotheses at superhuman scale, and you ensure that process translates into real, high-quality compounds that advance toward the clinic. This role leans heavily into the AI and computational side of our workflow: you will be accountable for throughput, quality, and the operational health of the discovery engine, working hand-in-hand with AI scientists, computational chemists, and platform engineers to diagnose bottlenecks, close feedback loops, and continuously improve how the platform performs.…

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