Agentic AI Engineering Lead

Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: June 23, 2025

Job Description:

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world. As a Lilly Agentic AI Engineer Lead, you will build cutting edge AI tools with a team of passionate engineers to accelerate & enhance Lilly’s drug discovery process. You will be hands-on designing architecture, deploying scalable services/integrations, and developing novel software to harness the power of LLMs to assist researchers in their day-to-day work. This role requires deep technical expertise, guiding engineers to deliver complex, high-quality software solutions. You will collaborate closely with partners from Lilly Research Labs, AI, Software Engineering, and industry leading partners outside Lilly to accelerate medicine discovery for Lilly. How You'll Succeed: Design and develop robust, scalable, and secure software solutions with a hands-on approach. Lead and mentor within a team of engineers, fostering best practices in software development such as design review, code reviews, testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD). Build and maintain microservices architectures and APIs, ensuring seamless interoperability and data flow across platforms. Implement containerization solutions, particularly using Kubernetes, to support deployment and scaling needs. Collaborate with diverse technical teams, including R&D, Data Science, IT Operations, and AI/ML teams, to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Ensure optimal system performance, reliability, and security through proactive monitoring and continuous improvement. Drive the adoption of modern engineering practices, tools, and technologies to enhance productivity and software quality. Troubleshoot complex technical issues and provide hands-on support to resolve them efficiently. Work with Principal Engineers to determine best path forward when it comes to scale, platform technologies, and other technical decisions. Monitor and track operational metrics Ensure robust integration of AI/ML models into production environments, focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability. What You Should Bring: Go, Rust, Java, C++ or other OOP Experience with scripting languages such as Python/Javascript Worked with Containers, Serverless, Kubernetes and other hosting targets Able to act as a mentor and lead more junior engineers in advancing their skill sets and performing code reviews. Understanding of HTTP and restful based APIs. Experience applying test driven development methodologies to catch bugs early & prevent feature reversion. Experience using CI tools to automatically test & CD tools to automatically deploy code updates. Experience applying systems engineering concepts to complex distributed systems with high throughput & availability requirements. Experience with architecture and software design tools such as UML for system modeling and design. Experience refactoring and re-platforming Building prototypes, all types of testing including canary Algorithm analysis/refactor – support optimal execution at scale Experience with tools and frameworks for AI/ML such as MLflow, pytorch, tensorflow, or similar frameworks/tools is preferred. Basic Requirements: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field. 5 years of hands-on experience in architecture and software engineering, with a proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional IT solutions. Organization Overview: Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business. Research Tech unites science with technology to accelerate the Research and Development of medicines and to deliver therapeutic innovations. The team leverages technology and platforms to streamline scientific experimentation to help Researchers follow the science, to understand the disease and identify potential therapies. They are at the forefront of advanced analytics to enable data driven drug discovery, to innovate so Scientists can rapidly analyze and accelerate the discovery of new medicines. Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form ( https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation ) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response. Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups. Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $135,000 - $213,400 Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees. WeAreLilly

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