Co-Op, Electron Microscopy
Required skills
- Materials Science
- Physics
- SEM
- EDS
- EBSD
- FIB
- powdered materials
- thin films
- SEM systems
- safety
Nice to have
- ImageJ
- Python
- XRD
- XRF
- automation
- AI workflows
Role summary
Lila Sciences is seeking a Co-Op, Electron Microscopy to support advanced SEM characterization workflows for powdered materials and thin films. This role involves hands-on instrument operation, data acquisition, method refinement, and protocol iteration to generate high-quality data for AI-guided materials research. The ideal candidate is a PhD student in Materials Science or Physics with a strong background in SEM-based microstructural analysis, expertise in EDS, EBSD, and FIB, and experience operating and troubleshooting SEM systems. Familiarity with image analysis tools and AI integration is a plus.
Your Impact at LILA
Lila Sciences is seeking a Co-Op, Electron Microscopy to join the Materials Science team within the Autonomous Science Platform. This co-op supports advanced SEM characterization workflows across powdered materials and thin films, working alongside synthesis, characterization, and ML scientists to turn physical experiments into high-quality data.
The work is hands-on and instrument-heavy: acquiring imaging and compositional data, refining methods, and iterating on protocols that feed Lila's materials discovery platform. It suits a PhD student who wants depth in microstructural analysis and sees how characterization data drives AI-guided materials research.
What You'll Be Building
What You'll Need to Succeed
Bonus Points For
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
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