Agentic automation, Frontier AI
Eli Lilly and Company2 days ago
Indianapolis, IN, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$69k - $196k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build multi-agent systems with orchestration, state management, error recovery, memory, planning, and tool integration.
- Design agent architectures that interface with Hamilton, Tecan, and Opentrons laboratory automation platforms for closed-loop experiments.
- Integrate agentic AI and software controls with robotic platforms, analytical instruments, LIMS/ELN systems, and experimental data pipelines.
- Prototype agent workflows that reason over experimental data, trigger automated actions, and surface insights to scientists.
- Transition prototypes into reliable laboratory operations in partnership with automation engineers, chemists, biologists, and scientists.
- Deploy and maintain containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes, and integrate Argo-based cloud orchestration with laboratory control systems.
- Represent Frontier AI through publications, talks, paper reviews, external research engagement, vendor evaluation, and technology scouting.
Requirements
- MS plus one year or BS plus three years of equivalent experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline, with demonstrated wet-lab automation experience.
- Demonstrated experience with laboratory automation systems and LIMS/ELN integration.
- Direct experience integrating software control or AI systems with liquid handlers, analytical instruments, robotic workflows, high-throughput experimentation, or flow chemistry.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes-based orchestration in cloud or production environments.
- Experience building scalable, production-level Python applications using tools such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, and OpenTelemetry.
- Preferred experience with LLM post-training, fine-tuning, or RLHF.
- Preferred experience deploying closed-loop autonomous experimentation with minimal human intervention.
- Preferred ability to build and maintain translation layers between high-level planning logic and low-level instrument control.
- Preferred research contributions or publications in relevant ML/NLP venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, or CVPR.
- Must be authorized to work full-time in the United States; Lilly will not sponsor work authorization or visas for this role.
Benefits
- Eligible full-time employees may receive a company bonus based partly on company and individual performance.
- Benefits may include a company-sponsored 401(k), pension, vacation, medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, flexible spending, life insurance, leave, well-being, fitness, employee assistance, and employee club benefits.
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About Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company researches, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines and biologics for patients, sold through healthcare providers, pharmacies, and payers. Core therapeutic areas include diabetes, oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and obesity. Founded in 1876 and headquartered in Indianapolis, it is a public company (NYSE: LLY) with global operations and is building a new advanced manufacturing site for gene therapy and other modalities in Lebanon, Indiana.