Director, Discovery Chemistry

Your Impact at LILA The Director, Discovery Chemistry will lead the design, synthesis, and optimization of small molecules across Lila’s discovery platform, with a primary focus on organic synthesis, molecular design, and scalable chemistry execution. This leader will build and scale a world-class molecular chemistry program that translates AI-generated molecular hypotheses into high-quality, synthetically tractable, and functionally validated chemical matter. Working closely with Lila’s AI, automation, computational, biology, and platform teams, this role will establish the chemistry infrastructure required to rapidly progress novel molecules from concept to validated candidates across a broad range of discovery efforts.…