Eli Lilly currently has 36 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 56%, are focused on agents, with data-related positions making up another 28%. Engineering is the most frequent function for these hires. The company is primarily hiring in the United States and India. Frequent technology tags include agent orchestration, RAG, and model serving, indicating a focus on building and deploying AI systems.
Currently tracking 28 active AI roles, down 25% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $58k–$345k (avg $175k).
Eli Lilly currently has 36 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Director, Discovery Bioinformatics Oncology (2), Advisor - Agent Research, Advisor - Antibody Developability Validation & Benchmarking, Advisor - Data Architect, Data Foundry, Advisor - Lab Automation Software Engineer. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Eli Lilly's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (53%), data (25%), application (8%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Eli Lilly is hiring AI talent in: United States (29 roles), India (7 roles).
Job postings at Eli Lilly most frequently reference: agent orchestration, rag, model serving, llm observability, vector db.
In the past 30 days, Eli Lilly has posted 12 new AI-related roles. That is a -48% change versus the prior 30 days (23 → 12).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Director, Discovery Bioinformatics Oncology Lead the AI/ML innovation & deployment for oncology discovery, architecting and operationalizing state-of-the-art machine learning (deep learning, foundation models, LLM-powered applications) to accelerate target identification, protein/antibody design, and multimodal data integration. Develop next-gen data integration platforms, advance computational protein & antibody design using active learning, and design/oversee experiments. Deliver robust, scalable ML systems with MLOps on cloud platforms and foundational bioinformatics. | AgentData | 8 |
| Sr. Principal or Engineering Advisor - Agentic Lab Automation Integration This role focuses on engineering the integration between agentic AI and physical lab systems, specifically for automating and accelerating molecule discovery in a healthcare setting. The engineer will build multi-agent systems, design agent workflows that interact with lab automation platforms, and deploy these systems into production environments. The goal is to create autonomous agents that can execute experiments, reduce experimental cycle times, and become integral to lab operations. |
| Agent |
| 8 |
| Director, Discovery Bioinformatics Oncology Lead the AI/ML innovation & deployment for oncology discovery, architecting and operationalizing state-of-the-art machine learning models (deep learning, foundation models, LLMs) to accelerate target identification, protein/antibody design, and multimodal data integration. Develop next-gen data integration platforms, advance computational protein & antibody design using active learning, and design/oversee experiments. Deliver robust, scalable ML systems with MLOps on cloud platforms and ensure foundational bioinformatics practices. | AgentData | 8 |
| Scientific Lead - Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Applied Intelligence for Discovery The Forward Deployed AI Engineer will embed with research teams to translate scientific use-cases into production AI systems for drug discovery. This role involves applying LLMs, RAG, and agentic frameworks to solve scientific problems, running evaluation loops, and distilling learnings into reusable components. The engineer will own end-to-end deployments, ensuring reliability and integrating with AI/LLMOps platforms, with a focus on measurable workflow impact and evidence-based feedback loops. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Software Engineer, AI & Clinical Applications Software Engineer role focused on building AI-powered and agentic applications to automate clinical workflows within a regulated healthcare environment. The role involves full-stack development, architecting LLM-integrated tools, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. | Agent | 7 |
| Engineer - MLOps & Scientific Platforms - Data Foundry Engineer focused on MLOps and scientific platforms to operationalize AI/ML tools for drug discovery. Responsibilities include building ML deployment pipelines, model serving infrastructure, API layers, and observability guardrails to make scientific methods reliable and scalable for both human scientists and autonomous AI agents. This role bridges methods development and data infrastructure, ensuring tools are analytics-ready, monitored, and exposed via APIs with performance guarantees. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Director/Senior Director, Analytical Methods (Methods4Insight) Director/Senior Director, Analytical Methods role within Lilly's Data Foundry team, focusing on developing and deploying cutting-edge analytical methods (cheminformatics, computational structural biology, statistical modeling, AI/ML) to accelerate molecule discovery. This role involves translating advanced methods into practical capabilities for both human scientists and autonomous AI agents, collaborating with other Data Foundry pillars and Frontier AI, and establishing best practices for method validation and impact tracking. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr. Staff Software Engineer - AI Chat Senior Staff Software Engineer to own the technical direction and delivery of ChatNow's core platform, which includes the routing engine that matches intent to the right agent, the integration layer that connects a growing ecosystem of AI capabilities, and the experience layer that makes it all feel effortless. The role involves defining the architecture and driving implementation of the conversation routing engine, owning the agent integration layer, building streaming chat interfaces, and integrating LLM capabilities through a model gateway with multi-model routing and fallback. | Agent | 7 |
| Technical Lead - Software Developer, Data Foundry Scientific Software Developer to build software systems for AI-native drug discovery. This role involves creating prototypes, data pipelines, APIs, MLOps infrastructure, agentic platform components, and lab automation integrations. The work spans architecture, methods, and automation, with a focus on a prototype-to-production model, handing off mature solutions to an enterprise scaling team. Responsibilities include building data pipelines for scientific datasets, developing APIs for LIMS and instruments, implementing MLOps for model deployment and observability, developing agent-ready APIs and infrastructure for closed-loop experimentation, integrating lab automation, and building cloud-native components with DevSecOps practices. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Director/Senior Director, ADMET & PK/PD Modeling This role focuses on building and validating predictive models for ADMET and PK/PD endpoints within a healthcare AI/ML platform for drug discovery. It involves developing translational and distribution modeling approaches, ensuring model usability for partners, defining data strategies, and leveraging AI/agentic tools for automation and interpretability. The role also includes mentorship of junior scientists. | Data | 7 |
| Scientific Lead - Scientific Data Engineer This role focuses on building the data infrastructure and semantic layer to make scientific data accessible for AI systems, specifically for drug discovery research. It involves designing and building data architectures, ETL/ELT pipelines, and AI-ready data products, including vector embedding pipelines for RAG. The role bridges data infrastructure and generative AI engineers, aiming to convert early deployments into repeatable system standards and evaluation practices. | DataAgent | 7 |
| Advisor, Data Scientist - CMC Data Products The role focuses on developing and delivering enterprise-scale data products that power AI-driven insights, process optimization, and regulatory compliance within the pharmaceutical domain. It involves defining data archetypes, creating reusable data models, and implementing data frameworks for regulated environments. The core responsibility is building AI-ready data products, including training datasets for various AI/ML applications and supporting generative AI for knowledge management. | Data | 7 |
| Advisor - Lab Automation Software Engineer This role focuses on designing and building AI-integrated, closed-loop autonomous discovery ecosystems for biotherapeutics research. It involves orchestrating automated laboratory workflows, implementing ML models for optimization, and creating digital lab infrastructure. The primary output is an agentic system that proposes hypotheses, executes experiments, analyzes results, and iteratively refines designs. | AgentData | 7 |
| Cyber Technical Program Manager This role is for a Cyber Technical Program Manager at Eli Lilly, focusing on managing cybersecurity programs that address current and emerging threats, including those related to AI. The role requires deep understanding of cybersecurity domains, attacker TTPs, and the ability to drive program execution, manage risks, and communicate technical concepts to various stakeholders. It involves understanding threats like AI supply chain risks, identity exploitation, and attack surface management, and applying knowledge of regulatory frameworks. | — | 5 |
| Senior Director, Software Engineering - Silicon Valley Hub Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead architecture, design, and development of AI platforms and products within a healthcare company. The role involves hands-on coding, technical leadership, and partnering with product managers to translate ambiguous problems into technical roadmaps. Focus on building agentic AI platforms, LLM application patterns, and evaluating emerging technologies. | Agent | 5 |
| Scientific Software Developer, Data Foundry Scientific Software Developers are needed to build the data infrastructure, scientific tools, and lab automation integrations that power AI-native drug discovery. This role involves working with scientists to create prototypes, data pipelines, APIs, and workflow tools, with a focus on enabling autonomous AI agents and closed-loop experimentation through lab automation. The role is anchored in Architecture4Insight, with collaboration across Methods4Insight and Automation & Scale4Insight, and involves building scientific software consumed by other teams, including AI agents. | AgentData | 5 |
| Digital Automation Engineer —DeltaV Central Solutions and Transformation The Digital Automation Engineer will be part of the Corporate Engineering Technology Center, Global Process and Control Engineering (GPACE) team. This role will develop central automation solutions for API manufacturing facilities, including digital transformation tools and AI applications to eliminate manual work. The engineer will support DeltaV CLASS module library updates, develop digital strategies for DeltaV transformation tools and AI applications, and manage use cases for streamlining DeltaV delivery and CSV. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering, 5+ years of experience in Process Automation with Emerson DeltaV, and experience in GMP environments. Programming experience with Python and experience with system integration are preferred. | — | 5 |
| Associate Director, Machine Learning Project Management, Lilly TuneLab Associate Director, Machine Learning Project Management for Lilly TuneLab, an AI/ML platform providing drug discovery models to biotech companies. The role focuses on project management leadership for model development, product release cycles, and external partnerships, aiming to scale the platform and facilitate collaborations. | Post-train | 5 |
| Advisor - Data Architect, Data Foundry The Data Architect will design and build the data infrastructure for AI-native drug discovery, focusing on data modeling, lakehouse architecture, and knowledge graphs. This role transforms raw scientific data into machine-actionable assets for scientists and AI agents, supporting model training and RAG workflows. | DataAgent | 5 |
| Data Architect, Data Foundry Seeking Data Architects to design and build the data infrastructure for AI-native drug discovery. This involves creating schemas, ontologies, data models, and platform architectures to transform raw scientific data into machine-actionable assets for discovery scientists and autonomous AI agents. The role focuses on data modeling, data platform architecture, and knowledge graph systems, enabling AI-driven capabilities. | DataAgent | 5 |
| Manager - Validation Lead – Technical Support & Operations – Global Services Manager leading Computer System Validation (CSV)/Computer Software Assurance (CSA) activities for IT systems, with a focus on driving innovation by leveraging AI and automation to simplify and streamline validation processes. The role involves leading validation projects, reviewing AI-generated documents, and promoting risk-based approaches and continuous improvement. | — | 5 |
| Advisor - Lab Automation Software Engineer, AI-Integration This role focuses on integrating software and AI capabilities into laboratory automation for antibody discovery. The engineer will lead the design and implementation of software integrations between automation infrastructure and digital tools, including exploring and prototyping AI-driven decision-making in workflows. The goal is to build intelligent systems for closed-loop autonomous discovery, accelerating biologics development. | Agent | 5 |
| Associate Director - IT Concord Associate Director of Technology at Eli Lilly's new manufacturing site in Concord, NC. This role involves leading IT systems supporting manufacturing and quality operations, driving technological advancements, and managing a team. Key responsibilities include project delivery, strategic IT leadership for digital deployments (including AI and data analytics), and team management within a GMP-regulated pharmaceutical environment. | — | 1 |
| Associate Director - Pharmacovigilance (PV) Systems Strategy and Implementation The Associate Director of Pharmacovigilance (PV) Systems Strategy and Implementation at Eli Lilly is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining compliant systems for the PV organization. This role involves analyzing business processes, identifying improvements, and driving the PV technology and analytics strategy. Key responsibilities include leading analytics and automation solutions, managing PV systems, ensuring compliance with regulations, and partnering with IT and business teams to build and deploy applications and analytics models. While the role mentions AI and analytics models, its core focus is on system implementation and compliance within a regulated healthcare environment, rather than core AI/ML development. | — | 1 |
| Associate Director - Operations (Environmental Control Unit) Associate Director of Operations for Environmental Control Unit at a new API manufacturing facility. Responsibilities include managing daily operations, ensuring safety and quality, maintaining regulatory compliance, supporting production plans, implementing improvements, and developing staff. The role is crucial during the startup phase of a greenfield site, requiring collaboration to build the organization, systems, and culture for GMP operations. | — | 0 |
| Principal Associate Quality Assurance - FUME This role is for a Principal Associate in Quality Assurance for Facilities, Utilities, Maintenance, and Equipment (FUME) in a pharmaceutical setting. The primary focus is on ensuring Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) compliance for facility design, delivery, verification, qualification, and startup to secure regulatory approval. Responsibilities include quality oversight of commissioning and qualification documentation, validation, technical reviews, and supporting inspection readiness. The role requires experience in the pharmaceutical GMP industry, specifically with FUME systems, and knowledge of relevant regulations. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Supervisor - Advanced Therapies This role is for a Manufacturing Supervisor at Eli Lilly's new Advanced Therapies facility, focusing on gene therapy and new modalities. The supervisor will lead Production Operators, manage employee performance, ensure compliance with GMP and safety regulations, and oversee routine production and facility start-up activities. The role requires experience in a regulated industry, preferably GMP, and strong leadership and problem-solving skills. | — | 0 |
| Operator – Visual Inspection Operator role focused on visual inspection of pharmaceutical products, operating automated and semi-automated equipment, and adhering to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) in a manufacturing environment. Requires attention to detail, adherence to safety and quality standards, and documentation of processes. | — | 0 |
| Operator, Packaging (Night Shift) Operator role in pharmaceutical manufacturing, focusing on running processes, troubleshooting, training, and ensuring safety and quality in medicine production. | — | 0 |
| Engineer SDD This role supports the development of key solutions or process improvements for Lilly manufacturing processes or industry-defined subjects. The Engineer SDD is expected to bring expertise and knowledge to lead development processes through research, laboratory experimental efforts, and direct interactions with manufacturing sites, development, and functional areas. The role provides technical leadership, guidance, and support to sites and external manufacturing organizations, supports major capital projects, and networks with the external community. Key responsibilities include providing engineering technical leadership in spray dried technology, collaborating cross-functionally, assisting with technical evaluations and problem resolution, developing experimental programs, supervising laboratory experiments, and preparing technical reports. The role requires a BS in Engineering or Science with 8+ years of manufacturing experience in a GMP regulated environment. | — | 0 |
| SAP Analyst - Supply Chain - Manufacturing This role supports Lilly's manufacturing site logistic flow, focusing on SAP and MES systems integration, particularly SAP EWM. It involves supporting implementation, providing day-to-day support, and promoting process improvement within a regulated manufacturing environment. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Reliability Engineer - Lebanon API Reliability Engineer role focused on equipment reliability and maintenance strategy for a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, ensuring safe operation, HSE & cGMP compliance, and cost-efficiency. Responsibilities include developing metrics, troubleshooting equipment issues, performing Root-Cause Analysis, and collaborating with engineering teams. Requires a BS in Engineering and 3+ years of experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Associate - External Manufacturing QA Senior Associate in External Manufacturing QA for a new gene therapy manufacturing facility, responsible for quality oversight of contract manufacturers, ensuring compliance with cGMPs, and managing batch disposition. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Principal - Engineer - Automation (Small Molecule) This role is for a Sr. Principal Automation Engineer focused on the design and delivery of the DeltaV platform for a new API manufacturing facility. The position involves leading automation DCS functions, collaborating with various teams, and supporting GMP manufacturing operations post-project delivery. Experience with Emerson DeltaV and API/Drug Substance manufacturing is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Supervisor - Planning and Scheduling - Lilly Medicine Foundry Supervisor for Planning and Scheduling at Eli Lilly's Medicine Foundry, overseeing maintenance planning and craft scheduling in a cGMP and FDA-regulated environment. Responsibilities include managing a team, ensuring safety and quality compliance, and coordinating maintenance activities with operations. | — | 0 |
| Deputy Project Controls Lead This role is for a Deputy Project Controls Lead at Eli Lilly, focusing on managing project controls for large capital programs in manufacturing facilities. The responsibilities include establishing cost and schedule baselines, managing resources, change control, risk management, and financial policy compliance. It requires experience in project controls on major industrial or manufacturing projects and proficiency with project management systems. | — | 0 |
| Associate, Device Assembly / Packaging Associate, Device Assembly / Packaging role at Eli Lilly, a global healthcare leader. This position focuses on implementing and monitoring projects within the manufacturing process, leading improvement initiatives, and acting as a liaison between operations and support groups. The role requires a Bachelor's Degree in a science-based field and experience in Device Assembly/Packaging Operations, with a strong emphasis on safety and root cause analysis. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director – TS/MS Central Team Associate Director for a new central team supporting pharmaceutical manufacturing operations, focusing on components, materials, annual product review, and visual inspection qualifications. The role involves leading and mentoring technical staff, ensuring a safe work environment, providing technical guidance, managing GMP documentation, overseeing supplier interactions, and collaborating across functions to implement the technical agenda and business objectives. Requires a Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline, 5+ years of pharmaceutical manufacturing experience, and 3+ years of team leadership experience. | — | 0 |
| Utilities Automation Engineer The Utilities Automation Engineer will be responsible for the maintenance, reliability, and optimization of utilities and facilities automation machine controls, integrations, and data at the Lilly Kenosha County campus. This hands-on role involves troubleshooting, root cause analysis, system improvements, and ensuring compliance with cGMP and HSE standards. The engineer will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for various automation systems (BMS, EMS, QBMS, Clean Utility) supporting HVAC and utilities systems. | — | 0 |
| Utilities Process Engineer The Utilities Process Engineer will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for HVAC and Utilities systems (GMP and non-GMP) in a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Responsibilities include ensuring systems are in alignment with industry and company standards, supporting risk assessments, monitoring utility systems, providing technical assistance, troubleshooting equipment failures, and ensuring compliance with Health, Safety, and Environmental policies. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field, technical understanding of HVAC and Utilities, knowledge of cGMP, and proficiency with relevant software and systems like TrackWise and CAPA. | — | 0 |
| QC Lab Technician QC Lab Technician at Eli Lilly responsible for technical support, testing, and quality systems within a device manufacturing laboratory, ensuring compliance with regulations and supporting product release. | — | 0 |
| Process Technician - Formulation/Filling/Material Prep (Nights) This role operates highly automated equipment for filling syringes in a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, ensuring compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices and safety standards. It involves learning formulation operations and potentially transitioning to Filling or Material Prep roles. The position requires adherence to safety policies, SOPs, and quality control, with a focus on troubleshooting, supporting leadership, and driving departmental objectives. | — | 0 |
| Engineer - Process This role supports the development of key solutions or process improvements for Lilly manufacturing processes or industry-defined subjects. The Engineer - Process is expected to bring expertise and knowledge to lead development processes through research, PEC laboratory experimental efforts, and direct interactions with manufacturing sites, development, and functional areas. The role provides technical leadership, guidance, and support to sites and external manufacturing organizations, supports major capital projects, and networks with the external community. Key responsibilities include providing engineering technical leadership globally in transport phenomena and fermentation engineering support, collaborating cross-functionally to direct discipline activities, new technology development, assessments, and deployment, and assisting with technical evaluations, technology assessment, and specific problem resolution. The role also involves developing experimental programs, protocols, and models, supervising laboratory experiments, preparing technical reports, and leveraging external resources to stay current in technology expertise. | — | 0 |
| Manager-Technology Implementation Specialist – Global Medical Information Contact Centers Manager-Technology Implementation Specialist for Global Medical Information Contact Centers at Eli Lilly. This role leads the deployment of digital technologies to improve customer experience and operational efficiency in contact centers worldwide. It involves bridging business strategy and technical execution, managing implementation projects, stakeholder relationships, budgets, and timelines, and ensuring technology adoption drives business outcomes and regulatory compliance. | — | 0 |
| Senior Associate / Manager, Clinical Development Trial Lead (CDTL) This role leads the cross-functional study team in the development and execution of clinical trials, managing timelines, risks, and budgets. It requires knowledge of drug development processes, clinical trial leadership, and scientific expertise, with a focus on ensuring quality, timeliness, and adherence to budget and scope. The role also involves managing relationships with third-party organizations and ensuring compliance with global and regional regulations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and Lilly standards. | — | 0 |
| Lead Process Technician - QA Floor Support This role provides daily quality assurance support and oversight for GMP operations in pharmaceutical manufacturing, focusing on ensuring adherence to quality systems, reviewing documentation, and supporting production functions. | — | 0 |
| Principal/Sr. Principal Logistics Engineer The Principal/Sr. Principal Logistics Engineer at Eli Lilly will support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of logistics and material flow systems at a manufacturing site. This role involves working with automated systems like ASRS and AMRs, SAP EWM integration, and developing business processes to create a digitally enabled logistics environment. Responsibilities include managing material flow, system performance monitoring, developing SOPs, and supporting operational readiness and ongoing operations. | — | 0 |
| Director Process Chemistry SMDD Director of Process Chemistry at Eli Lilly, focusing on the development, optimization, and commercialization of synthetic active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and drug products. The role involves leading cross-disciplinary teams, managing external R&D, overseeing tech transfer, and ensuring regulatory compliance within the pharmaceutical sector. | — | 0 |
| Process Systems Engineer Seeking a Process Systems Engineer to apply computerized model-based solutions to accelerate the development of new medicines. Responsibilities include designing and optimizing pharmaceutical manufacturing processes using modeling, simulation, and data analysis, developing computational tools, and training others. The role involves collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, managing external manufacturing networks, and ensuring compliance with regulations. | — | 0 |
| Director, Analytical Chemistry Extended Characterization This role is for a Director of Analytical Development at Eli Lilly's subsidiary, Verve Therapeutics, focusing on building and leading a team to develop next-generation analytical methods for RNA drug substances and LNP drug products. The position involves hands-on experience with biophysical techniques and supporting late-stage development and commercialization of gene editing programs, including regulatory submissions and GMP validation. | — | 0 |