Advisor - Agentic Automation, Frontier AI
Eli Lilly and Company1 day ago
South San Francisco, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$168k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain translation layers between agent planning logic and laboratory instrument control across Hamilton, Tecan, Opentrons, LC/MS, NMR, and HPLC systems.
- Connect experimental readouts to ELN/LIMS and downstream data pipelines to produce traceable, model-ready data.
- Build multi-agent systems with orchestration, state management, error recovery, tool integration, memory systems, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Transition prototypes into reliable laboratory operations in partnership with scientists and automation engineers.
- Deploy and maintain containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes, and integrate Argo-based cloud orchestration with laboratory control systems.
- Collaborate with NVIDIA engineers and researchers, Lilly scientists, vendors, open-source communities, and academic researchers.
Requirements
- PhD, or MS plus 3 years or BS plus 5 years of equivalent experience, in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Chemistry, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated wet-lab automation experience and direct experience integrating software control or AI systems with laboratory automation platforms, analytical instruments, or robotic workflows.
- Strong production experience with Docker and Kubernetes-based orchestration.
- Experience building scalable production-grade Python applications using Redis, FastAPI, Flask or Streamlit, and pytest.
- Experience building production LLM agent or multi-agent systems that call real tools.
- Preferred experience with LLM post-training, fine-tuning, RLHF, self-driving labs, autonomous experimentation, or high-throughput experimentation.
- Familiarity with NVIDIA BioNeMo, CUDA, and Omniverse.
- Research experience demonstrated through project contributions and ideally publications in relevant ML/NLP or chemistry venues.
- Experience mentoring interns, students, or junior engineers is preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Full-time employees may be eligible for 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, employee assistance, fitness, and employee club benefits.
- This is a full-time onsite position based in South San Francisco, California.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ApplicationsRobotics
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.