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 |
|---|---|---|
| Advisor - Agent Research Seeking a scientist-engineer hybrid to deploy AI-driven discovery platforms using foundation models, multi-agent systems, and robotics in drug discovery workflows. The role involves translating scientific workflows into agentic systems, integrating LLM reasoning with domain tools, and supporting model deployment and inference services. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Advisor - Antibody Developability Validation & Benchmarking The Advisor - Antibody Developability Validation & Benchmarking role at Eli Lilly is part of the AI-powered drug discovery platform, Lilly TuneLab. This role focuses on validating federated antibody models by building benchmark suites, designing test sets, integrating public benchmarks, and developing validation frameworks. The goal is to ensure the trustworthiness of AI models for triaging drug candidates, partnering closely with modeling scientists on design choices and statistical rigor, and integrating validation into the MLOps pipelines. |
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| 8 |
| Applied AI Engineer, Clinical Informatics This role focuses on building agentic AI applications and ML systems to extract, define, and contextualize patient phenotypes from clinical trial datasets, biobank data, and electronic health records. It involves developing RAG pipelines, applying unsupervised/self-supervised learning, survival models, and NLP techniques to derive translational insights for clinical research. The role requires strong Python/R skills and experience with cloud environments, with a focus on research rigor and reproducibility. | AgentData | 8 |
| Associate Vice President - Methods4Insight, Data Foundry Associate Vice President leading the analytical methods and computational science pillar within Data Foundry, focusing on accelerating molecule discovery. This role involves leading a team of experts in cheminformatics, computational structural biology, statistical modeling, and AI/ML, ensuring Lilly has access to advanced analytical approaches for both human scientists and AI agents. The position requires strategic decision-making on adopting or developing methods, identifying data gaps, and establishing validation frameworks, with a strong emphasis on integrating methods into AI agent workflows. | DataAgent | 8 |
| Post Doctoral Scientist – Human Genomics and Translational Data Sciences This role focuses on applying statistical and computational approaches, including machine learning, to analyze large-scale multi-omics (genomic, proteomic, metabolomic) and clinical data from biobanks and population cohorts. The goal is to identify novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers for cardiometabolic diseases. The role involves developing and implementing bioinformatics pipelines, contributing to novel statistical methods, and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to guide therapeutic development. While the primary focus is on data analysis and method development (L0/L2), the ultimate aim is to inform drug discovery and development. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| CADD Postdoctoral Scientist Postdoctoral Scientist role focused on developing synthesis-aware virtual screening workflows for early small-molecule drug discovery, integrating AI/ML with structure-based drug design and fragment chemistry. | Data | 7 |
| Director/Sr Director Pharmacometrics Director/Sr Director Pharmacometrics role at Eli Lilly focused on advancing drug discovery and development through quantitative science, with a strong emphasis on integrating AI/ML and automation into modeling workflows. The role involves scientific and technical leadership, mentoring, and shaping PMx strategy across programs and the organization, including engagement with regulatory agencies. | Data | 5 |
| Director, Molecular Pharmacology This role is for a Director of Molecular Pharmacology at Eli Lilly, focusing on designing and executing assays to support drug discovery programs. The role involves developing novel assay platforms, characterizing compound pharmacology, and providing scientific leadership. A key responsibility is to incorporate AI/ML into scientific workflows, though the core function is not AI/ML development itself. | — | 5 |
| Discovery ADME Project Leader (Antibody Drug Conjugates, ADCs) Seeking an experienced drug hunter as a Discovery ADME Project Leader for Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs). The role requires deep mechanistic understanding of drug disposition, PK, and translational science, integrating biology, chemistry, and modeling. Responsibilities include developing integrated preclinical ADME strategies, driving ADME strategy by aligning pharmacokinetics, metabolism, and safety data, and guiding compound design. The role involves serving as the ADME single-point-of-accountability on cross-functional program teams, collaborating with various discovery functions, and contributing to candidate selection decisions. The position also requires implementing best practices, mentoring junior scientists, and leveraging AI/agentic tools where possible. A PhD in a related field and 6+ years of industry experience in drug discovery are required. | — | 1 |
| In Vitro Pharmacologist — Molecule Discovery In vitro pharmacologist with deep experience in molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry, and pharmacology, responsible for critical evaluation of scientific and business opportunities, assessing scientific merit, technical feasibility, and assay readiness of potential partnerships and programs. The role involves designing and executing in vitro pharmacology models to support hit selection, lead optimization, and candidate progression, and evaluating/building CRO networks. Key responsibilities include assessing biotech partner assay readiness, providing expert opinions on assay quality, defining project workflows, advising on candidate screening strategies, and collaborating across multiple modalities. | — | 0 |
| Clinical Research Lead - Immunology, Investigator Engagement (West Coast) Clinical Research Lead responsible for driving clinical trial execution through investigator engagement and site performance management in the Immunology therapeutic area. This role requires deep therapeutic and scientific knowledge to influence investigators, elevate protocol understanding, and co-develop tailored enrollment strategies. | — | 0 |
| Principal Scientist/ Senior Principal Scientist, Large Molecule Biology This role focuses on designing and executing in vitro and ex vivo studies to advance oncology targets through the drug discovery pipeline. Responsibilities include performing biological assays, developing and validating bioanalytical methods, conducting flow cytometry, and collaborating cross-functionally. The role requires expertise in mammalian cell culture, pharmacology, and experience with biologic modalities. | — | 0 |
| Director - Clinical Research Scientist Director - Clinical Research Scientist at Eli Lilly (Verve subsidiary) to lead clinical trial efforts for gene editing therapies targeting cardiovascular disease. Responsibilities include developing clinical strategy, ensuring regulatory compliance, overseeing trial execution, analyzing data, and contributing to regulatory submissions and publications. The role requires deep understanding of clinical pharmacology, biomarkers, and regulatory guidelines (FDA, ICH, CPMP, GCPs). | — | 0 |
| Scientist, Dissolution & Biopharmaceutical Modeling Scientist role focused on developing analytical methods and conducting experiments for early clinical formulation development of synthetic drug molecules, collaborating with formulation scientists and biopharmaceutical modeling scientists to guide drug product development from research through commercialization. Emphasizes safety, quality, regulatory, GLP/GMP, and authoring regulatory documents. | — | 0 |
| Director, Vaccine Formulation Development The Director, Vaccine Formulation Development at Eli Lilly will lead the formulation and process development of vaccines, including recombinant protein antigens, emulsion- or aluminum-based co-formulated vaccines, and antigen-display nanoparticles. This role involves supporting drug product development, bringing in new formulation technologies, and working with cross-functional teams to ensure immunogenic, stable, and patient-centric vaccine drug products. The position requires a PhD, 10 years of experience in vaccine drug product development, and demonstrated leadership in program management and regulatory submissions. | — | 0 |
| Post-Doctoral Scientist – Advanced Resin Characterization for TIDES Manufacturing This role focuses on developing advanced analytical techniques for resin characterization in peptide and oligonucleotide synthesis within the pharmaceutical industry. It involves quantifying diffusion effects, understanding reaction efficiencies, and utilizing various analytical methods like chromatography and mass spectrometry. The position requires a PhD in a relevant scientific field and emphasizes research, problem-solving, and publication. | — | 0 |
| Laboratory Animal Veterinarian Eli Lilly is seeking a Clinical Veterinarian to support a rodent-based research program within their Nonclinical Safety Assessment department. The role involves leading daily clinical care, health surveillance, and oversight of rodent colonies, as well as collaborating with research scientists on animal models and protocols. The position requires a DVM or VMD with at least 3 years of experience in Laboratory Animal Medicine. | — | 0 |
| Senior Principal Scientist - Bioanalytical Research Senior Principal Scientist in Bioanalytical Research at Eli Lilly, focusing on small and large molecule mass spectrometry for oncology portfolios, particularly radioligand therapeutics. Responsibilities include sample preparation, operating mass spectrometers for quantitative bioanalysis, investigating structure-activity relationships (PK, biodistribution, biotransformation), and mentoring junior scientists. Requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree with significant experience in mass spectrometry and bioanalysis, with preferred qualifications in radioligand therapeutics and advanced data analysis tools, including AI-based analysis as an advantage. | — | 0 |
| Senior Scientist – Manufacturing Science The Senior Scientist – Manufacturing Science provides technical support for the reliable and compliant manufacture of API External Manufacturing (API EM) portfolio, including raw materials, intermediates, enzymes, and bulk drug substances. This role executes technical projects involving experimentation, modeling, and data analysis to optimize process control, yield, purity, and productivity. Responsibilities include conducting laboratory-scale experiments, troubleshooting, and providing technical documentation for regulatory submissions and process improvements within a cGMP manufacturing environment. | — | 0 |
| Advisor/Sr. Advisor - Molecular Biology, Cell Culture Upstream Process Development This role focuses on upstream process development for bioproducts, including cell line development, cell culture optimization, process robustness, and regulatory submissions within a healthcare/pharmaceutical context. | — | 0 |
| Advisor - Immunology Discovery This role is for an Advisor in Immunology Discovery at Eli Lilly, focusing on preclinical drug discovery research. The candidate will design and evaluate novel immunomodulatory strategies, conduct in vivo and in vitro experiments, and analyze data using techniques like flow cytometry and RNA-seq. The role involves managing multiple projects, supervising research associates, and collaborating across functions. It requires strong hands-on experience in immunology, cell biology, and animal models. | — | 0 |
| Associate Oligonucleotide Chemist This role focuses on the synthesis, purification, and analysis of modified oligonucleotides and related molecules for drug discovery within the RNA Therapeutics team. It involves laboratory work, troubleshooting synthetic challenges, and collaborating with other scientists. The position requires a BS/MS in Chemistry with experience in synthetic organic and/or oligonucleotide chemistry. | — | 0 |
| Infectious Disease Clinical Research Physician Physician role focused on designing, executing, and interpreting clinical trials for infectious disease therapies within a pharmaceutical company. Involves medical expertise, data review, regulatory interactions, and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Research Advisor, Drug Product - SMDD This role focuses on the design and development of drug products for synthetic molecules, integrating pharmaceutical sciences with disease state and patient preferences. Responsibilities include applying drug delivery fundamentals, predicting in vivo performance using molecular properties and preclinical data, leveraging modeling for formulation development, refining clinical drug product prototypes, and collaborating with partners on CMC strategy. The role also involves authoring technical reports and regulatory documentation. | — | 0 |
| Discovery Oncology Scientific Lead Seeking a scientist to join a Discovery Oncology biology team, focused on advancing next-generation genetic medicine technologies for oncology applications. The role involves creating and executing strategies for the discovery and credentialing of oncology targets enabled by new therapeutic modalities, collaborating with other discovery and translational functions. Requires a strong understanding of oncogenic pathways and experience in designing experiments to evaluate molecular interactions and cellular pathways. | — | 0 |
| Principal Biologist - Cutaneous Biology This role focuses on designing, developing, and validating biological assays to test molecule activities, investigate drug mechanisms of action, and evaluate performance in animal disease models for preclinical testing in the field of immunology and cutaneous biology. | — | 0 |
| Postdoctoral Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry Postdoctoral Scientist role in Medicinal Chemistry at Eli Lilly, focusing on designing and synthesizing novel drug targets to optimize potency and ADME properties. The role involves multi-step synthesis, purification, characterization, and troubleshooting of chemical reactions, with opportunities to develop synthetic methods. Collaboration within the scientific team and presentation of findings are key. | — | 0 |
| Scientist/Sr. Scientist - Protein Engineering Scientist/Sr. Scientist role focused on protein engineering, specifically antibody optimization and phage display-based discovery within a healthcare/biotechnology research division. Involves molecular biology, biochemistry, and developing/optimizing assays. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director - Medical Science Liaison – Cardiometabolic Health – Los Angeles, CA The Associate Director - Medical Science Liaison (MSL) for Cardiometabolic Health at Eli Lilly is responsible for engaging with scientific and clinical experts to provide in-depth scientific and clinical information about specific disease states and Lilly's compounds. This role involves synthesizing the latest research, responding to medical information needs, facilitating scientific exchange, and communicating insights to internal teams. The MSL acts as a key interface between Lilly Medical and healthcare professionals, supporting clinical care gaps and potentially facilitating collaborative research. The role also involves territory management, strategic planning, and ensuring compliant partnerships. | — | 0 |
| Executive Medical Director - Physician -Early Clinical Development, Immunology Executive Medical Director role in Early Clinical Development for the Immunology team at Eli Lilly, focusing on developing transformational medicines for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The role involves strategic leadership, designing and executing early clinical studies, integrating translational endpoints, and collaborating with cross-functional teams, regulatory affairs, and external experts. Requires a physician scientist with strong clinical translational experience and leadership skills. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director - Clinical Research Lead-Oncology (Florida, Puerto Rico) Associate Director for Clinical Research in Oncology, responsible for driving clinical trial execution through investigator engagement and site performance management. This role requires deep therapeutic and scientific knowledge to influence investigators, ensure protocol understanding, and develop enrollment strategies. The CRL acts as a trusted partner to investigators, collaborating with internal teams to shape development strategies and ensure operational excellence. Responsibilities include investigator management, clinical trial management, business management, and country/regulatory engagement. | — | 0 |
| Advisor — Synthetic Chemist / Peptide Therapeutics (Indianapolis) This role is for a Synthetic Chemist/Peptide Therapeutics Advisor in Biotechnology Discovery Research. The individual will design, synthesize, optimize, and characterize therapeutic peptides and bioconjugates, leading hands-on research, driving SAR strategies, and generating data for project decisions. The role involves integrating knowledge across peptide chemistry, bioconjugation, and pharmaceutical developability, collaborating cross-functionally, and contributing to scientific productivity through publications and patents. | — | 0 |
| Advisor / Senior Advisor - Discovery Biology - Osteoporosis Seeking an experienced discovery biologist to provide scientific leadership and hands-on expertise to shape early research strategy and advance novel therapeutic concepts for osteoporosis at Eli Lilly. This role involves driving mechanism-based discovery, maintaining a laboratory presence, designing and conducting experiments, and contributing to cross-functional project teams. | — | 0 |
| Advisor/ Sr. Advisor - Preclinical Discovery, Women's Health - Preeclampsia This role focuses on discovery research in preclinical women's health, specifically preeclampsia, involving target identification, hypothesis development, and advancing preclinical biology. It requires a PhD in a related field and hands-on laboratory experience with in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo models. | — | 0 |
| Advanced in Vitro Models - Advisor/Sr. Advisor Seeking a scientist to develop and apply advanced in vitro models (co-culture systems, iPS-derived cells, spheroids, organoids, organ-on-a-chip) or new approach methodologies (NAMs) to address mechanistic/investigative toxicology questions in drug discovery. The role involves qualifying novel assays, investigating mechanisms of compound-induced toxicity, and collaborating with external partners. | — | 0 |
| Post-doctoral Biologist Post-doctoral Biologist role at Eli Lilly focused on discovering and advancing peptide and antibody drugs. Responsibilities include developing rodent models, executing in vivo studies, performing cell culture and assays, analyzing data, and collaborating with internal and external teams. Requires a Ph.D. in Biology, proficiency in in vivo studies, and experience with small animal surgery and cell-based assays. | — | 0 |
| Director, Regenerative Biology Director of Regenerative Biology at Eli Lilly, leading preclinical inner ear regeneration programs. Focuses on scientific strategy, study design, execution, and external collaborations for gene therapy and regenerative approaches. Requires PhD and extensive experience in inner ear biology or related fields, with a track record of advancing programs through preclinical development. | — | 0 |
| Senior/Executive Director Clinical Research Physician - Breast Cancer/PI3K Senior/Executive Director Clinical Research Physician focused on Breast Cancer and PI3K pathway drugs within Eli Lilly's Global Medical Affairs organization. This role involves strategic planning, drug development support, commercialization activities, engaging with external stakeholders (KOLs, investigators), and leading a team of medical affairs professionals. The primary focus is on improving patient outcomes through scientific and medical expertise, particularly for tersolisib, a PI3Ki in late-phase development. | — | 0 |
| Director/ Senior Director/ Executive Director – Translational PKPD Project Leader This role focuses on leading PKPD project strategy for genetic medicines programs, developing and implementing modeling strategies to enhance decision-making in drug discovery and development. It involves designing, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative pharmacology studies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring junior scientists. The role requires expertise in PK/PD and PBPK modeling, experience with relevant software, and a PhD in a related field. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director - Oncology and Peripheral Imaging Clinical Development This role is for a Senior Director in Oncology and Peripheral Imaging Clinical Development at Eli Lilly. The primary focus is on leading the clinical development of imaging strategies for oncology, immunology, and cardiometabolic diseases, spanning early to late-phase trials. While the role involves evaluating AI in imaging, its core function is in clinical research and development within the healthcare domain, not in building or shipping AI models. | — | 0 |
| Director/Senior Director/Executive Director - AAV R&D This role is for a Director/Senior Director/Executive Director in AAV R&D at Eli Lilly, focusing on inventing, characterizing, and advancing novel genetic reagents for clinical applications. The responsibilities include developing AAV therapies, driving data-based decisions, implementing strategic vision, leading screening of AAV technologies, ensuring best practices in model development and validation, and leading a team. The role requires a PhD with 10+ years of industry experience, with a mastery of ophthalmology gene therapy and proven experience in leading gene therapy programs. | — | 0 |
| In Vivo Imaging Scientist This role focuses on leading and executing in vivo and PET imaging studies, including experimental design, advanced image analysis, and data interpretation within the healthcare domain. The scientist will integrate cutting-edge imaging technologies and novel agents into research pipelines, collaborate with global leaders, and disseminate findings through publications and presentations. The role requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree with at least 7 years of experience in molecular imaging and a strong publication record. | — | 0 |
| Director - Clinical Design Physician - Cardiometabolic Health Director level role focused on clinical design for cardiometabolic health at Eli Lilly. Responsibilities include translating therapeutic area strategy into clinical development programs and trial optionality, developing study protocols, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring compliance with regulations. The role requires medical expertise and pharmaceutical industry experience in drug development and clinical trial design. | — | 0 |
| Director - Discovery Immunology This role is for a Director in Discovery Immunology at Eli Lilly, focusing on developing biological strategy for new target validation, from target identification through mechanistic validation. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in functional genomics, phenotypic and mechanistic discovery platforms, and primary human model systems. The role involves leading cross-functional discovery teams, driving scientific decision-making, and expanding functional genomics capabilities. This is a research-focused role within the healthcare domain, not directly related to AI/ML model development. | — | 0 |
| In vivo biologist-Immunology Research scientist role focused on developing and utilizing in vivo models to understand immunological mechanisms for drug discovery in autoimmune diseases. Responsibilities include leading research studies, hands-on laboratory work, data analysis, and mentoring junior scientists. | — | 0 |
| Principal Scientist — Synthetic Chemist / Peptide Therapeutics (Indianapolis) Principal Scientist role focused on synthetic chemistry, specifically peptide synthesis and optimization for therapeutic drug discovery in a healthcare setting. Requires strong organic chemistry background and ability to contribute to structure-activity relationship campaigns. | — | 0 |
| Post-Doctoral Scientist or Engineer - TSMS This role focuses on developing technical solutions for spray drying in pharmaceutical particle manufacturing. It involves operating pilot scale equipment, designing and executing experiments to understand the impact of parameters on particle size and morphology, developing analytical techniques for measurement, and refining models for atomization and drying. The goal is to identify and solve manufacturing needs, present findings, and publish research. | — | 0 |
| Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Translational Modeling This role focuses on clinical pharmacology and translational modeling for gene editing therapeutics in the cardiovascular space. It involves leading the development and execution of strategies across preclinical and clinical development, including dose selection and regulatory filings. The role utilizes advanced modeling techniques like PBPK, population PK/PD, QSP, and exposure-response analysis to inform drug development decisions and regulatory submissions. | — | 0 |
| Director/Sr. Director—Immunology Research Cutaneous Biology This role is for a Director/Sr. Director in Immunology Research focused on Cutaneous Biology within the healthcare domain. The primary responsibilities involve providing scientific guidance, leading research projects for skin and hair disorders, contributing to external innovation and business development due diligence, identifying and validating novel targets, guiding the design and implementation of preclinical models, and managing a research team. The role requires a PhD with 10+ years of experience in biotech or pharma, with preferred qualifications including experience leading discovery programs, knowledge of the dermatology therapeutic landscape, and expertise in cutaneous biology. | — | 0 |
| Clinical Research Physician - Development, Neuroscience Clinical Research Physician role focused on late-phase and marketed compounds in Neuroscience at Eli Lilly. Responsibilities include clinical trial monitoring, patient safety oversight, protocol development, scientific data dissemination, and ensuring compliance with regulations and company policies. This role acts as a scientific resource for study teams and external healthcare professionals. | — | 0 |