Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Eli Lilly and Company3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Embed with business, medical, and marketing teams to understand workflows, frame ambiguous problems, and identify valuable solutions.
- Design and build responsive full-stack applications using frontend technologies, Node.js services, APIs, and enterprise data integrations.
- Develop and integrate LLMs, RAG, agents, semantic search, evaluation, guardrails, and monitoring into production products.
- Own scoping, estimation, development, testing, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and support handover.
- Make architecture decisions and create reusable components, templates, accelerators, and reference implementations.
- Apply secure-by-design, privacy-by-design, traceability, auditability, human oversight, and regulatory governance practices.
- Set engineering standards, review designs and code, document production systems, and mentor developers and engineers.
- Communicate feasibility, risks, trade-offs, scalability, and value to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems end to end.
- 4+ years building customer-facing or business-facing solutions in close partnership with stakeholders.
- Expertise in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript or TypeScript, React, and responsive web standards; Nuxt or Vue experience is a plus.
- Strong Node.js backend experience, including Express, Koa, or Hapi, and REST or GraphQL API design and integration.
- 2+ years of hands-on generative AI delivery involving LLMs, prompt and context engineering, RAG, embeddings, agentic workflows, and model-output evaluation.
- Working proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience using frameworks such as LangChain, DSPy, or Hugging Face.
- Strong experience with unit and integration testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Chai, or Jasmine.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud services, preferably on AWS, with CI/CD, containers, and monitoring.
- Strong system design, architecture, version control, code review, security, maintainability, and observability fundamentals.
- Experience working in Agile teams with scoping, estimation, and backlog ownership.
- Proven ability to turn ambiguous business problems into scalable solutions with measurable value and communicate clearly with varied audiences.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience; a master's degree is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes pharmaceutical, healthcare, regulated-industry, content review, privacy, compliance, multi-agent, Text2SQL, semantic search, hybrid retrieval, reranking, LLM evaluation, vector database, Databricks, SageMaker, Azure ML, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, MLflow, developer tooling, internal platforms, accelerators, CMS, and content operations.
Tech Stack
AWSDatabricksDockerExpressGitHub ActionsGraphQLHapiJasmineJavaScriptJestKoaKubernetesMLflowMochaNode.jsPythonReactSQLTypeScriptVue.js
Categories
Forward Deployed
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.