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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

The Discovery Chemistry Research and Technologies (DCRT) organization within Lilly Research Labs is a small-molecule drug discovery organization with responsibilities spanning target identification to candidate selection for clinical studies. We are looking to grow our diverse team of scientists.  

Position Summary: 

 We are seeking a skilled researcher with expertise in AI Agents, planning and decision-making algorithms, to join our multidisciplinary team within Lilly’s Discovery Chemistry Research and Technologies (DCRT) organization. You will help develop AI agents that autonomously plan, execute and optimize complex chemistry and biology workflows, leveraging advanced AI techniques to accelerate medicine discovery. 

This role offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of AI-driven drug discovery, collaborating with experts across AI@Lilly and Tech@Lilly functions, as well as chemistry, biology, and automation. Your work will directly impact the development of life-changing medicines. 

If you are passionate about applying advanced AI methodologies to solve complex scientific challenges, we encourage you to apply and join us in making life better for people around the world. 

Key Responsibilities: 

Agentic Framework Development 

Design an AI Agent platform enabling autonomous agents to optimize chemistry and biology workflows.

Integrate multiple AI agents to enhance collaboration, efficiency, and scalability in scientific processes 

Workflow Automation

Develop solutions using LLMs and Generative AI to automate multi-modal data processing, analysis, and interpretation in chemistry and bioinformatics. 

AI Engineering and Optimization

Train, fine-tune, and deploy transformer-based models tailored to chemistry and biology applications. 

Research and Collaboration

Conduct independent research; collaborate with chemists, biologists, and computer scientists to integrate AI solutions into existing workflows. 

Basic Qualifications

Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Computational Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Engineering, or a related field  

Experience developing and/or integrating chemistry or biology software (e.g., REINVENT, chemprop, etc).

Strong experience with popular machine learning/data science libraries (e.g. PyTorch, Keras, HuggingFace, Pandas, Scikit-Learn) 

Demonstrated experience in LLM engineering (tokenization, prompt engineering, chain-of-thought) through coursework and portfolio projects 
 

Additional Skills/Preferences: 

Understanding of chemistry or biology multi-modal data 

​Familiarity with agent-based modeling and agentic frameworks in scientific domains 

Ability to communicate with diverse, wet-lab scientists  

Proven experience with training, fine-tuning, and deploying large-scale transformer-based models. 

Experience in state-of-the-art reinforcement learning and inference time compute algorithms  

Expertise in large-scale reinforcement learning systems and model quantization 

Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) 

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Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for 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; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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