Eli Lilly and Company

Scientific Lead - Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Applied Intelligence for Discovery

We captured this posting once, on 2026-07-06, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
Eli Lilly and Company
Location
San Francisco, CA
Seniority
Senior
Experience asked for
3+ years
Pay band
$167K – $266K

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-06-20 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-07-06 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

llmretrieval augmented generationtext-to-sqlagentic ai frameworkscomputational biology embeddingprototypingproduction systems designevaluation loopsdeployment learningsAI partnership

From the posting

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world. The Opportunity We are building something unprecedented — an AI foundation that will push the frontier on what is possible today across drug discovery research, from target identification and disease biology through translational science. …

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