Agentic Automation Engineer – Frontier AI & Lab Automation

BioSpace; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Pension

Medical benefits

Vacation

Job summary

Lilly in South San Francisco, CA invites engineers and scientists to join a pioneering AI-enabled lab within the Lilly–NVIDIA collaboration, building agentic automation for drug discovery. You will prototype, productionize, and deploy intelligent systems that connect lab instruments, data pipelines, and analytical tools, collaborating with chemists, biologists, and automation engineers on site.

This on‑site role reports to the Agentic Automation Lead and offers a competitive compensation and

Qualifications

• PhD (or MS + 3 yrs / BS + 5 yrs equivalent) in Engineering, CS, or related field with wet-lab automation experience.
• Direct experience integrating software control and/or AI systems with lab automation platforms (liquid handlers, analytical instruments).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain translation layer between high-level agent planning and low-level instrument control across lab automation platforms.
• Connect experimental readouts to ELN/LIMS and downstream data pipelines.
• Build multi-agent systems with robust orchestration, state management, and error recovery.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Redis

Education

PhD in a relevant field

MS + 3 yrs / BS + 5 yrs equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Job description

Lilly in South San Francisco, CA invites engineers and scientists to join a pioneering AI-enabled lab within the Lilly–NVIDIA collaboration, building agentic automation for drug discovery. You will prototype, productionize, and deploy intelligent systems that connect lab instruments, data pipelines, and analytical tools, collaborating with chemists, biologists, and automation engineers on site.

This on‑site role reports to the Agentic Automation Lead and offers a competitive compensation and