Eli Lilly and Company

Engineering Advisor – Agentic Lab Automation Integration

Eli Lilly and Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: IndianapolisMassachusettsUnited States

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Salary

💰 $151,500 - $244,200 per year

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