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 10 new AI-related roles. That is a -60% change versus the prior 30 days (25 → 10).
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| Principal Engineer – Visual Inspection Principal Process Engineer responsible for leading visual inspection processes for pre-filled syringes in a pharmaceutical manufacturing setting. This role involves ensuring safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance of both automated and manual inspection systems, optimizing process performance using statistical tools, and leading technical investigations and improvement initiatives. | — | 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 |
| Sr. Director - TS/MS This role is a Senior Director of Technical Services/Manufacturing Science at Eli Lilly, focused on overseeing and leading the TS/MS function for a new advanced manufacturing facility for API molecules. The position involves strategic leadership, process development, optimization, ensuring compliance with cGMP and regulatory standards, and people development within the pharmaceutical manufacturing context. It is not directly AI/ML related, but operates within a regulated healthcare domain. |
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| Advisor - Technical Lead Scientist - Advanced Therapies Manufacturing This role is for a Technical Lead Scientist in Advanced Therapies Manufacturing at Eli Lilly, focusing on gene therapy product commercialization. It involves technical leadership for clinical and commercial activities, including technology transfer, validation, production, and regulatory submissions. The position requires understanding manufacturing principles, identifying new technologies, leading risk management, and ensuring process documentation and validation strategies are in place. The role supports the construction and startup of a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. | — | 0 |
| eCOA - Clinical Study Build Programmer This role focuses on programming and testing clinical trial data collection databases, including mapping, testing, and normalizing data into a clinical data warehouse. It requires expertise in data technology, data flow, data standards, database programming, normalization, and testing within the healthcare domain. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director Process Engineering - Peptides API Associate Director of Process Engineering for Peptides API at Eli Lilly, responsible for leading and directing process engineers in a new advanced manufacturing facility. The role involves building the engineering team and organization, developing business systems, supporting project delivery, and ensuring compliant GMP manufacturing operations for peptide products. Key responsibilities include hiring, coaching, setting standards, managing operational expenses, and collaborating with R&D and project teams. | — | 0 |
| Director - QC Advanced Therapies LP2 Quality This role is for a Director in Quality Control for Advanced Therapies at Eli Lilly, focusing on the startup and operation of a new, highly advanced manufacturing facility for gene therapy. The position involves leading a laboratory team, ensuring compliance with cGMP, managing daily operations, personnel, and external partnerships, and contributing to the design, commissioning, and testing of new products. The role requires a strong understanding of regulatory requirements and laboratory processes within the healthcare/pharmaceutical domain. | — | 0 |
| Synthetic Chemist High Potency Lab - Lilly Medicine Foundry This role focuses on synthetic chemistry and process development for highly potent small molecule APIs within a new advanced manufacturing and drug development center (Lilly Medicine Foundry). The chemist will evaluate and facilitate the transfer of chemical processes from development labs to pilot plant operations, ensuring readiness for early-phase cGMP manufacturing. Responsibilities include performing synthetic chemistry, assessing routes, evaluating safety, ordering materials, setting up analytical methods, analyzing data, summarizing findings, performing familiarization reactions, conducting use-tests, maintaining lab notebooks, authoring technical documents, and contributing to process improvement and troubleshooting. | — | 0 |
| Principal Engineer This role is within Bioproduct Research and Development (BR&D) at Eli Lilly, focusing on developing and optimizing biologically derived products. The Principal Engineer will design and execute experiments for cell culture processes, analyze data, author technical reports, and support scale-up and technology transfer. The role also involves evaluating emerging technologies and implementing automation, with a preference for candidates comfortable using AI tools for analysis and design. | — | 0 |
| Maintenance Technician This role is for a Maintenance Technician in pharmaceutical manufacturing, focusing on servicing, repairing, and maintaining process and utility equipment to improve uptime, efficiency, and overall equipment effectiveness. Responsibilities include troubleshooting mechanical issues, performing repairs, setting up equipment, documenting actions in CMMS, and working with safety protocols. Requires a high school diploma, minimum 2 years of automation experience, and mechanical skills. | — | 0 |
| Advisor Parenteral Global Product Steward - Genetic Medicines This role is for an Advisor Parenteral Global Product Steward in Genetic Medicines at Eli Lilly. The individual will provide technical stewardship for parenteral drug products and genetic medicines, collaborating with cross-functional teams to support global manufacturing sites for new product commercialization, process improvements, and technology transfers. The role involves shepherding new pipeline products from development into manufacturing, integrating cross-functional information for data-driven decisions, and driving advancements in technical capabilities. It requires a PhD with 5+ years, Master's with 10+ years, or Bachelor's with 15+ years of experience in parenteral product manufacturing, with proficiency in biomolecule and genetic medicine characterization and GMP manufacturing. | — | 0 |
| Business Process Architect - MQ IT GSC This role is for a Business Process Architect focused on Global Supply Chain (Logistics) technology platforms at Eli Lilly. The responsibilities include platform ownership, governance, continuous improvement, vendor management, and project delivery for logistics, transportation visibility, and supply chain intelligence applications. The role requires experience in supply chain technology, IT product ownership, and managing logistics/transportation platforms, with a focus on ensuring operational value and adherence to IT policies. | — | 0 |
| Advisor - Oligonucleotide Analytics This role focuses on developing and implementing analytical and separation methodologies for the characterization and quality control of oligonucleotides and their conjugates in a healthcare setting. It involves lab-based work, method development, instrumentation maintenance, and collaboration with IT for informatics systems. | — | 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 |
| Technician – QC – IAPI The Technician – QC – IAPI performs routine laboratory testing in a quality control setting, adhering to GMP and safety guidelines. Responsibilities include sample handling, microbiological testing, data recording, deviation identification, and supporting audits. This role is crucial for ensuring product quality and compliance in a regulated healthcare environment. | — | 0 |
| Lead Engineering Technician - Parenteral Plant Engineering Utilities This role is for a Lead Engineering Technician in Plant Engineering at Eli Lilly, focusing on maintaining and ensuring the reliable operation of facility infrastructure and utility systems within a parenteral manufacturing plant. Responsibilities include system ownership, troubleshooting, supporting capital projects, coordinating maintenance, and ensuring compliance and safety. The role requires technical understanding of utilities and mechanical equipment, strong problem-solving skills, and effective communication within a cross-functional environment. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 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 |
| Senior Director - Construction Capital Procurement Senior Director role in Construction Capital Procurement for Eli Lilly, a global healthcare leader. The role focuses on leading procurement for major capital projects, including engineering, automation, equipment, and construction services, supporting multi-billion dollar expansion plans. Responsibilities include strategic sourcing, project leadership, client engagement, team development, and ensuring compliance within a regulated environment. | — | 0 |
| Supervisor, Biologics Operations - Lilly Medicine Foundry Supervisor for Biologics Operations in the Lilly Medicine Foundry, responsible for leading process operators, overseeing safety and quality, ensuring production schedules are met, and managing employee relations in a GMP manufacturing environment. Requires API supervisory experience and experience in biologics/biotechnology processing. | — | 0 |
| Associate, Fill / Finish - Parenteral Operations Associate role in Parenteral Operations at Eli Lilly, focusing on implementing and monitoring manufacturing projects, driving process improvements, and ensuring a safe work environment. Requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Parenteral Operations. | — | 0 |
| Kilo Lab Lead Technician The Kilo Lab Lead Technician at Eli Lilly supports the startup of a new advanced manufacturing and drug development center (Lilly Medicine Foundry). This role involves bringing manufacturing equipment into service, becoming an expert in assigned areas, and training other technicians. Upon project completion, the technician will provide on-the-floor leadership for API molecule production, ensuring safety and quality. Responsibilities include enforcing compliance, training junior technicians, operating equipment, conducting experiments, dispensing materials, maintaining equipment, leading troubleshooting, and promoting a strong safety culture. The role requires collaboration, creativity, and resilience during the transition from design to operations. | — | 0 |
| Kilo Lab Technician The Lilly Medicine Foundry Kilo Lab Technician supports the startup and operation of a new advanced manufacturing and drug development center. This role involves transferring chemical processes, operating equipment, conducting experiments, and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards for clinical supply of various drug modalities. The technician will also support troubleshooting and process improvements. | — | 0 |
| Supervisor, Hybrid Operations - Lilly Medicine Foundry Supervisor providing leadership and direct management to process operators in the Medicine Foundry operations group, overseeing the production of API molecules with a safety-first, quality-always approach. Responsibilities include enforcing compliance, overseeing operations, leading safety culture, troubleshooting process upsets, reporting safety and quality events, managing shift communications, and ensuring personnel follow cGMP practices. | — | 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 |
| Senior/Principal Process Engineer - API External Manufacturing Peptides Senior/Principal Process Engineer at Eli Lilly focused on API External Manufacturing for Peptides. The role involves providing technical leadership and expertise to contract manufacturers, ensuring reliable supply and commercialization of medicines. Key responsibilities include developing and sustaining process knowledge, coaching team members, leading tech transfers and scale-up, supporting process optimization, ensuring equipment capability, and overseeing health, safety, and environmental (HSE) and process safety management (PSM) elements at contract manufacturing sites. The role requires a strong understanding of chemical engineering principles and experience in a regulated manufacturing environment. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director - Digital & Data Lead Associate Director - Digital & Data Lead at Eli Lilly, responsible for overseeing and aligning digital programs for new manufacturing sites, ensuring they meet objectives, timelines, and budgets. The role involves championing digital plant strategy, influencing senior leadership on technology direction, providing input to business and strategic financial plans, and ensuring GxP compliance for all digital solutions. This position requires a deep understanding of manufacturing, lab, and quality processes, and the ability to translate business needs into actionable digital strategies. | — | 0 |
| Automation Technician - Night Shift Automation Technician at Eli Lilly, a global healthcare leader, responsible for equipment performance, first-line production support, mechanical repairs, PMs, and troubleshooting in a GMP manufacturing environment. Requires expertise in production processes, commissioning, qualification, validation, and control system technologies, with experience in instrumentation, PLC/HMI programming, and business software. | — | 0 |
| Maintenance Technician - Night Shift This role is for a Maintenance Technician on the night shift at Eli Lilly, a global healthcare leader. The primary focus is to service, repair, and maintain process and utility pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment to improve uptime and efficiency. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, performing repairs, setting up equipment, and documenting actions in a CMMS. The role requires a high school diploma, minimum 2 years of maintenance experience, and the ability to work in a regulated manufacturing environment. | — | 0 |
| Director, Drug Product - SMDD This role focuses on the design, development, and manufacturing of solid drug products within the pharmaceutical industry. It involves applying expertise in formulation, manufacturing processes, and technology platforms, including continuous manufacturing and process analytical technologies, to accelerate drug development and commercialization. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and leadership in technical development and regulatory strategy. | — | 0 |
| Advisor - Computational Modeling Engineer The Advisor - Computational Modeling Engineer will provide diverse modeling expertise and develop computational models that drive decisions to design new manufacturing processes and improve existing ones across Lilly's global manufacturing network. This role applies modeling techniques across a broad range of domains — including physical properties, unit operations, scale-up, numerical and multiphysics simulation, discrete event simulation, and resource and operational logistics optimization — to support both continuous/batch process operations and discrete manufacturing operations. A core focus of the role is the development of Digital Twin computational models that provide online modeling capabilities to manufacturing facilities. | — | 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 |
| Engineer - Reliability Reliability Engineer responsible for establishing and executing maintenance and reliability strategies to ensure equipment and process uptime in a regulated healthcare manufacturing environment. This role involves data analysis of key metrics (MTTR, MTBF, OEE), root cause analysis of failures, implementing reliability improvements, and supporting cross-functional teams. Experience with vision systems, CMMS, and regulatory compliance (cGMP, FDA) is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Director, COO Strategy & Operations - GPS Capabilities This role is for a Sr. Director of COO Strategy & Operations within the Global Patient Safety (GPS) Capabilities function at Eli Lilly. The primary focus is on driving strategic execution, financial stewardship, and organizational effectiveness, with a key near-term objective of orchestrating the PV Affiliate Centralization initiative. The role also involves supporting broader GPS Capabilities pillars through cross-functional alignment, resource planning, stakeholder communications, and leadership meeting governance. It requires a blend of strategic thinking, operational rigor, change management, and executive communication skills within a healthcare context. | — | 0 |
| Sr Director - HSE - GMP - Alabama Senior Director of Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining HSE programs and systems at a new API manufacturing facility. This role leads the site HSE team, ensures compliance with global and regulatory standards, and contributes to strategic planning during the project delivery and startup phase, focusing on building HSE systems, processes, and culture for GMP operations. Post-startup, the role owns the HSE Management System and ensures ongoing compliance. | — | 0 |
| Process Technician - Formulation/Filling/Material Prep (Day Shift) Process Technician role at Eli Lilly focused on operating automated equipment for formulation, filling, and material preparation in a healthcare manufacturing setting. Requires adherence to safety and quality standards (cGMP), with opportunities for training and troubleshooting. Basic requirements include a high school diploma and ability to work specific shifts and overtime. Preferred skills include knowledge of cGMP, manufacturing systems, and lean principles. | — | 0 |
| Reliability Engineer - Lilly Medicine Foundry Reliability Engineer for Eli Lilly's new Medicine Foundry, focusing on optimizing manufacturing processes and ensuring equipment reliability for drug development and clinical trials. This role supports advanced manufacturing research by maintaining optimal equipment performance and implementing reliability monitoring programs. | — | 0 |
| Technician/Sr. Technician/Expert Technician - Process Translation and Execution Lilly Medicine Foundry This role supports laboratory and administrative operations for process development activities in advanced manufacturing for various drug modalities at the Lilly Medicine Foundry. Responsibilities include preparing equipment, running experiments, performing basic analyses, maintaining lab notebooks, and contributing to troubleshooting. | — | 0 |
| Instrumentation/Medium Voltage Electrician Utilities This role is for an Instrumentation/Medium Voltage Electrician responsible for servicing, troubleshooting, and maintaining equipment in utilities at Eli Lilly's manufacturing facilities. The position involves preventive and corrective maintenance on medium voltage electrical equipment, complex electrical equipment, and process instrumentation. It also includes performing modifications, new installations, and diagnosing electrical and instrumentation problems to minimize downtime. The role requires a strong electrical aptitude, compliance with safety and cGMP standards, and good documentation practices. | — | 0 |
| Scientist, Reference Standard Manufacturing - BRD Corporate Reference Standards Organization (CRSO) Scientist responsible for the technical integrity, reliable supply, and compliance of reference standard manufacturing activities within a global healthcare company. This role involves influencing drug development phases by establishing and executing manufacturing strategies for reference standards, ensuring scientific soundness, integration with control strategies, and regulatory compliance. The Scientist collaborates with global teams and external partners, manages projects, and makes decisions regarding manufacturing strategies and technical issue resolution. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director/Director, External Collaborations-1 This role leads pharmacovigilance (PV) strategy with alliance partnerships for Global Patient Safety (GPS). It involves evaluating business deals for safety operational risks and planning for PV system integration of acquisitions/divestitures, defining strategy, performing due diligence, leading negotiations, and ensuring compliance with GVP regulations. | — | 0 |
| Supervisor - IDAP Vault Operations Supervisor for a medical device assembly process team, responsible for daily operations including safety, compliance, operator development, scheduling, and issue resolution. This role involves shift leadership in a manufacturing environment with a focus on safety, quality, and productivity. | — | 0 |
| Production Line Mechanic Production Line Mechanic responsible for general maintenance support, equipment uptime, and reliability in a cleanroom manufacturing environment. This role involves troubleshooting, performing corrective and preventative maintenance on machinery, and supporting projects related to production and utility equipment, all while adhering to GMP standards and safety protocols. | — | 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 |
| Associate Director, TS/MS Manufacturing CMC Project Management Associate Director, TS/MS Manufacturing CMC Project Management role at Eli Lilly, focused on integrating Manufacturing CMC elements for molecule commercialization and managing the development and implementation of technical plans for commercially manufactured molecules. The role leads cross-functional teams to ensure integrated CMC plans, accelerate medicine delivery, and coordinate Global Product Assessments. It requires strong project management, leadership, and communication skills within the pharmaceutical manufacturing context. | — | 0 |
| Supervisor - Parenteral Manufacturing Operations 3rd Shift Supervisor for Parenteral Manufacturing Operations on the 3rd shift at Eli Lilly's Kenosha County facility. Responsibilities include direct line supervision of operators, ensuring safety and quality, driving operational improvements, supporting commissioning and qualification, and coaching employees. Requires a High School Diploma/GED and 2+ years of experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing operations with a strong understanding of FDA guidelines and cGMP requirements. | — | 0 |
| Supervisor - Parenteral Manufacturing Operations 2nd Shift Supervisor for Parenteral Manufacturing Operations at Eli Lilly, focusing on direct line supervision of operators, ensuring safety and quality, and driving operational improvements in a pharmaceutical manufacturing setting. Requires experience in regulated environments and cGMP compliance. | — | 0 |
| Director, Global Regulatory Affairs - Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC), Platform Innovation - Biologics This role provides strategic, tactical, and operational regulatory CMC leadership for biologics, focusing on expediting development, supporting clinical trial applications, market registrations, and post-approval submissions. It requires deep technical knowledge of CMC development and manufacturing processes, coupled with a strong understanding of global regulations and guidelines. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director - Medical Science Liaison (Cardiometabolic) - Nashville, TN The Associate Director - Medical Science Liaison (Cardiometabolic) role at Eli Lilly is responsible for engaging with scientific and clinical experts in a specific therapeutic area to provide in-depth scientific and clinical information. This role involves synthesizing research, responding to medical information needs, and communicating insights to inform Lilly's strategic direction. It requires deep content knowledge, strategic thinking, and field execution. | — | 0 |
| Advisor - Computational Statistics Advisor - Computational Statistics role at Eli Lilly, focusing on statistical trial analysis, communication of results, and regulatory compliance within the healthcare domain. Requires a Master's degree in Statistics or Biostatistics and 6+ years of industry experience, with proficiency in SAS and R. | — | 0 |
| Associate Director – Quality Assurance - Operational Readiness Associate Director of Quality Assurance responsible for ensuring operational readiness and GMP compliance for a healthcare site transitioning from project phase to operations. This role involves strategic quality leadership, cross-functional alignment, establishment of quality systems, risk management, and capability building within a regulated environment. | — | 0 |