
Engineering Advisor – Agentic Lab Automation Integration
Eli Lilly and Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Indianapolis • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $151,500 - $244,200 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Engineer the connective tissue between Agentic AI and physical lab systems building practical integrations with robotic platforms, analytical instruments, and data pipelines.
- Design agent workflows that reason over experimental data, trigger automated actions, and surface insights to scientists.
- Build multi-agent systems with robust orchestration, state management, error recovery, and tool integration.
- Partner with automation engineers and scientists to transition prototypes into reliable lab operations.
- Deploy and maintain containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes with GitOps and CI/CD practices.
Requirements
- PhD (or MS + 2 yrs / BS + 5 yrs equivalent experience) in Chemical / Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Engineering, or related discipline with demonstrated wet-lab automation experience.
- Demonstrated experience with laboratory automation systems and LIMS engineering
- Direct experience integrating software control and/or AI systems with lab automation platforms (liquid handlers, analytical instruments, robotic workflows)
- Strong experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes-based orchestration in production environments
- Experience building scalable and production-level python applications using tools like Redis, FastAPI, flask/streamlit, pytest, etc. (GitHub portfolio a plus)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Pension
- Vacation benefits
- 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
- Well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)
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Hard Skills & Tools
roboticsAI systems integrationwet-lab automationcontainerizationPythonDockerKubernetesGitOpsCI/CDLIMS engineering
Certifications
PhDMSBS