About the role#
Lila Sciences is looking for a co-op to join the Hardware and Controls Engineering team. You will build a centralized monitoring system to track the health of our SCADA infrastructure, which spans cloud and on-premise systems. This role provides broad exposure to industrial networking, AWS, and data visualization. You will work on-site at our Alewife location in Cambridge, Massachusetts, alongside our controls and IT/OT teams. This is a paid, full-time position for the Winter 2027 term.
What you'll do#
- Build a live topology view of edge nodes, brokers, gateways, and databases with per-link status and last-seen timestamps.
- Surface RDS PostgreSQL health metrics, such as CPU, memory, storage growth, connection counts, replication lag, and slow queries.
- Dashboard Ignition gateway and EC2 metrics, including JVM heap, tag quality, Sparkplug rates, and scan timing.
- Monitor on-premise edge nodes for reachability, uptime, resource use, and last publish time.
- Integrate existing data sources into one interface.
- Document your work so the team can maintain and extend the setup.
What you'll need#
- Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
- Available full time for the Winter 2027 co-op term.
- Proficiency in Python for scripting and data collection.
- Comfortable working in Linux from the command line.
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including IP addressing, subnets, ports, and routing.
- Clear written communication for documenting dashboards and findings.
- Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability tools is helpful.
- Familiarity with AWS services like EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, or IAM is a plus.
- Exposure to Ignition, MQTT, Sparkplug, JavaScript, or React is useful.
Location & details#
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts (Alewife site).
- Term: Winter 2027.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time.
About Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences operates as a scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab. The company focuses on life, chemistry, and materials science. It applies artificial intelligence to the scientific method to assist with research in human health and sustainability. Founded in 2023, the organization maintains its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It currently employs 474 people.
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