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Co-Op, Data Extraction

Lila Sciences
Posted 12 days ago, valid for 7 days
Location

Cambridge, MA 02139, US

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Lila Sciences is seeking a Data Extraction Co-Op to assist in building AI systems that convert unstructured scientific knowledge into structured signals.
  • The position requires pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a related field, along with a solid foundation in machine learning and Python.
  • Candidates should have familiarity with NLP or computer vision concepts and a curiosity about scientific data.
  • The role offers hands-on experience fine-tuning extraction models and building data pipelines, contributing to impactful scientific applications.
  • The salary for this position is not explicitly stated, but it typically requires relevant coursework or projects and may consider candidates with some experience in data extraction.

Your Impact at LILA

Lila Sciences builds AI systems that accelerate discovery across the physical and life sciences. Within Physical Sciences AI, our team works on turning unstructured scientific knowledge (e.g., literature, patents, technical reports) into structured signals that power downstream Lila applications. As a Data Extraction Co-Op, you will work alongside research scientists and engineers on a focused sub-problem in this stack. You will get hands-on experience fine-tuning and evaluating extraction models, building pipelines for messy real-world data, and shipping work that flows into production systems.

What You'll Be Building

  • Contribute to AI systems that extract and structure knowledge from scientific literature and patents, focused on a well-defined sub-problem
  • Fine-tune and evaluate language, multimodal, or specialized models for data extraction, with mentor guidance
  • Build and test pipelines that structure unstructured scientific data across text, tables, and visuals
  • Run extraction pipelines, analyze results, and document findings clearly
  • Share your work through a team presentation, write-up, or contribution to a publication or open-source project

What You'll Need to Succeed

  • Pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a related field
  • Solid foundation in machine learning fundamentals and Python
  • Familiarity with NLP or computer vision concepts
  • Curiosity about scientific data and willingness to learn quickly in a research setting

Bonus Points For

  • Coursework or projects involving multimodal models or document understanding (OCR, table/figure extraction)
  • Experience working with messy, real-world datasets
  • Interest in scientific document parsing

About LILA

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligenceâ„¢ 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 Factoryâ„¢ 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.




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