Eli Lilly and Company · 2 hours ago
Engineering Advisor - Agentic Lab Automation Integration
US: Boston MA Lilly Seaport Innovation Center
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$152K/yr - $244K/yr
5+ years expEli Lilly and Company is a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, dedicated to improving lives through innovative medicines. The Engineering Advisor role focuses on integrating agentic AI and lab automation to enhance laboratory science efficiency, requiring hands-on engineering to build practical integrations with robotic platforms and analytical instruments.
BiotechnologyHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Build multi-agent systems with robust orchestration, state management, error recovery, and tool integration
Prototype and iterate rapidly on agent planning strategies, memory systems, and human-in-the-loop patterns
Design agent architectures that interface with lab automation platforms (Hamilton, Tecan, Opentrons) for closed-loop experimental execution
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
Integrate cloud-based orchestration frameworks such as Argo on Kubernetes with laboratory control systems
Represent Frontier AI in the broader AI@Lilly and external AI research community: publish, give talks, review papers, and scout emerging trends
Evaluate external vendors, open-source projects, and academic collaborations for strategic fit
Qualification
Required
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)
Preferred
Experience with LLM post-training, fine-tuning, or RLHF
Direct experience integrating AI or algorithmic decision systems with laboratory automation
Proven ability to build and maintain the translation layer between high-level planning logic and low-level instrument control
Demonstrable research experience, evidenced by contributions to projects, and ideally through publications in relevant ML/NLP venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR)
Benefits
Company bonus
401(k)
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)
Company
Eli Lilly and Company
We're a medicine company turning science into healing to make life better for people around the world.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.5M2024-02-12Post Ipo Debt· $6.5M
1978-01-13IPO
Leadership Team
David Ricks
Chair, CEO
Lucas Montarce
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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