DevOps Engineering Intern

Your Impact at LILA

The DevOps Engineering Intern will support the Product Operations team in building and maintaining infrastructure and delivery platforms. Working alongside experienced engineers, the intern will gain hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code in a fast-paced scientific computing environment. This is an opportunity to learn modern DevOps and platform engineering practices while contributing to systems that power automated scientific analysis, experiment orchestration, and ML pipelines.

What You'll Be Building

• Assist with maintaining and improving Kubernetes-based infrastructure supporting scientific services and platform workloads.
• Help build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, including container image builds and automated testing.
• Write and update infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Helm charts under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Support AWS cloud infrastructure tasks across services such as EKS, IAM, S3, ECR, and VPC networking.
• Contribute to automation scripts and tooling in Python or Bash to improve infrastructure operations.
• Assist with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling to help maintain system reliability.
• Participate in incident response and troubleshooting exercises to develop operational skills.
• Document processes, runbooks, and infrastructure decisions.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Foundational knowledge of Linux systems and command-line/Bash scripting.
• Basic understanding of Python programming for scripting and automation.
• Familiarity with version control using Git and GitHub workflows.
• Exposure to cloud computing concepts (AWS preferred) through coursework or personal projects.
• Basic understanding of containers (Docker) and container orchestration concepts.
• Eagerness to learn modern DevOps practices including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and Kubernetes.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative, team-first attitude.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Bonus Points For

• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, EKS) through labs, coursework, or personal projects.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Exposure to Kubernetes (Minikube, Kind, or managed clusters).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Interest in or coursework related to site reliability engineering, security, or platform engineering.
• Familiarity with GitOps concepts or tools (ArgoCD, Flux).
• Contributions to open-source projects or relevant personal/academic projects.

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.

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