Contractor, Electromechanical Technician

lilasciences

Cambridge, MA USA · Cambridge

Posted Aug 13, 2026

Contract
Autonomous Science Platform

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Job description

Your Impact at LILA

Lila Sciences is seeking a Contract Electromechanical Technician to join our Hardware & Controls Engineering team. In this hands-on role, you will build, assemble, test, and troubleshoot custom automated instruments, workcells, and experimental equipment that support frontier research in life and physical sciences.

You will work closely with engineers, scientists, and automation specialists to translate designs into working systems. This includes supporting rapid prototypes, buildouts, upgrades, and integration work across mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and controls subsystems.

This role is a practical bridge between design and execution. Your work will help the team move quickly from engineering concepts to reliable lab-ready hardware.

What You'll Be Building

Assemble and calibrate custom electromechanical equipment and automated systems from CAD models, drawings, and schematics.
Build test stands, fixtures, workcells, and experimental setups in partnership with engineering and science teams.
Perform wiring, cable routing, component mounting, and subsystem assembly for instruments and automation panels.
Support integration, bring-up, and debugging across mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, optical, and controls subsystems.
Execute maintenance, repairs, upgrades, alignments, and troubleshooting on complex lab equipment.
Give engineers practical feedback during builds on fit, serviceability, assembly sequence, and design issues.
Maintain clear documentation for builds, repairs, troubleshooting steps, and component history.
Follow lab safety practices and industry standards during fabrication, assembly, and testing.

What You'll Need to Succeed

Associate’s degree in electromechanical technology, mechatronics, industrial maintenance, or a related field, or equivalent military, vocational, or hands-on technical training.
Strong mechanical assembly and electrical diagnostic skills, including hand tools, calipers, gauges, multimeters, and basic shop equipment.
Ability to read and work from 3D CAD models, mechanical drawings, and electrical schematics.
Experience assembling and troubleshooting electrical, cable, pneumatic, fluid, or thermal systems.
Familiarity with PLCs, motor controllers, actuators, sensors, and industrial automation components.
Practical knowledge of safe work practices, including LOTO, electrical safety, and lab or shop safety standards.
Strong troubleshooting judgment, clear communication, and comfort working across engineering disciplines.
Ability to manage multiple build, repair, and integration tasks with limited supervision.

Bonus Points For

Experience supporting interdisciplinary R&D teams across mechanical, controls, automation, and software domains.
Experience with 3D CAD tools, especially SolidWorks.
Familiarity with AutoCAD or electrical schematic drafting tools.
Experience assembling control panels, wiring PLCs, or working at the component level in automation systems.
Experience with digital maintenance or documentation tools such as CMMS, ERP, Kanban, or wikis.
Experience in automation, manufacturing, robotics, laboratory automation, or regulated R&D environments.

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.

We’re All In

Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Information you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.

A Note to Agencies

Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.