Senior Manager, Capacity Planning
lilasciences
Maintenance Engineering Technician II
lilasciences· Autonomous Science Platform
About this role
Your Impact at LILA
Maintenance Engineering Technicians are the backbone of instrument uptime at Lila. You will execute preventive maintenance schedules, perform first-response troubleshooting, maintain calibration and qualification records, and coordinate with Lab Operations, Research Operations, and Hardware & Controls Engineering to keep workcells running.
This is a hands-on, precision role in a fast-moving, highly automated lab environment. You’ll support reliable operation of commissioned instruments and integrated workcells through disciplined maintenance, documentation, troubleshooting, and vendor coordination.
What You'll Be Building
- Execute scheduled preventive maintenance across the commissioned instrument fleet.
- Maintain accurate PM, repair, and service records in the CMMS.
- Perform instrument calibration and support IQ/OQ/PQ execution.
- Respond to instrument alarms, failures, and performance anomalies during shift.
- Execute in-scope repairs and escalate engineering-level issues to HCE or Automation.
- Document incidents, repairs, and out-of-tolerance conditions in the CMMS.
- Coordinate vendor visits, track service records, and maintain spare parts inventory.
- Track MTBF and downtime trends to surface recurring failure patterns.
- Help develop ME SOPs, work instructions, and maintenance practices.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- 3+ years of hands-on instrument maintenance experience in a research, clinical, or production lab.
- Experience maintaining biological research or analytical instruments.
- Working knowledge of pipetting system calibration, fluidics troubleshooting, and optical systems.
- Experience with cell culture equipment preventive maintenance.
- Familiarity with biological safety and containment protocols.
- Strong documentation discipline and comfort working in a CMMS.
- Demonstrated independence troubleshooting and executing PM across multiple instrument families.
Bonus Points For
- Direct CMMS experience, such as Maximo, eMaint, MaintainX, or Fiix.
- Experience authoring or executing IQ/OQ/PQ in a regulated lab environment.
- Vendor management experience, including service contract coordination.
- Exposure to robotic automation platforms or integrated workcells.
- Comfort with shift-based operations supporting 24/7 lab 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.
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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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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This Maintenance Engineering Technician II role at lilasciences is based in Cambridge, MA USA. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
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This Maintenance Engineering Technician II position is part of the Autonomous Science Platform department at lilasciences. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
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This Maintenance Engineering Technician II position at lilasciences was posted on Aug 24, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
Maintenance Engineering Technician II
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