Dir/Sr. Dir - Lab Automation Engineer, Discovery Oncology
Eli Lilly and Company12 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $297k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical implementation, architecture, and standards for software and control layers spanning liquid-handling protocols and integrated hardware/software systems.
- Own future workcell design, vendor evaluation, installation, validation, and ongoing performance optimization.
- Provide hands-on technical mentorship and review designs without formal management or career-development responsibility.
- Lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions for complex hardware/software integration failures.
- Bridge software engineering, hardware and controls, data teams, and bench scientists to integrate automation and data systems.
- Build scientist-facing UIs, dashboards, CLIs, AI-assisted interfaces, APIs, automation scripts, and configuration templates.
- Build and maintain data capture, upload, validation, monitoring, alerting, and self-diagnostic tooling.
- Advise on instrumentation, technologies, partnerships, vendor relationships, and platform strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Biology, or a related field, with 10+ years of hands-on experience in laboratory automation, robotics integration, or a closely related engineering discipline.
- Experience providing technical mentorship to other engineers and influencing through technical credibility rather than formal authority.
- Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and/or C#, with experience building production-quality software.
- Experience with laboratory automation platforms, scheduling and control software, software/control-layer design, and automated system qualification.
- Experience designing UIs, APIs, CLIs, data pipelines, monitoring tools, and other interfaces for non-software-engineer users.
- Experience with liquid-handling platforms such as Tecan, Beckman Coulter/Labcyte, Agilent, or Hamilton and with software such as Cellario, Momentum, VWorks, Green Button Go, or custom ACS.
- Experience applying LLMs or AI agents to instrument control, troubleshooting, or laboratory software workflows.
- Experience with driver design, observability and monitoring tooling, vendor partnerships, and technical resourcing trade-offs.
- Working knowledge of data processing pipelines, downstream data infrastructure, PLCs, safety circuits, and power electronics.
- Some background in oncology, mammalian cell biology, or a related scientific field.
Benefits
- Onsite work five days per week in New York, NY.
- Eligible full-time employees may receive a company bonus.
- Benefits include a 401(k), pension, vacation, medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, flexible spending, life insurance, leave, wellness, fitness, employee assistance, and employee club benefits.
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.