Autonomous Lab AI Engineer – Frontier AI

Lilly; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Job summary

Lilly seeks a technically skilled engineer to advance Frontier AI in a role that blends agentic AI, lab automation, and data platforms. You will connect software to robotic and analytical instruments, design agent workflows, and push rapid prototyping to production-grade solutions in a cutting-edge laboratory environment.

The position emphasizes building autonomous experiments, scaling to production lab environments, and collaborating with chemists, biologists, and automation engineers to

Qualifications

• MS + 1 yr or BS + 3 yrs equivalent experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related discipline with demonstrated wet-lab automation experience.
• Demonstrated experience with laboratory automation systems and LIMS/ELN integration.
• Direct experience integrating software control and/or AI systems with lab automation platforms (liquid handlers, analytical instruments, robotic workflows, high-throughput experimentation, flow chemistry).
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes-based orchestration in cloud or production environments.
• Experience building scalable and production-level Python applications using tools like LangChain/LangGraph, AutoGen, OpenTelemetry, etc. (GitHub portfolio a plus).
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

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.

Skills

Laboratory automation

Python programming

Open-source tooling

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

LangChain / LangGraph

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Lilly seeks a technically skilled engineer to advance Frontier AI in a role that blends agentic AI, lab automation, and data platforms. You will connect software to robotic and analytical instruments, design agent workflows, and push rapid prototyping to production-grade solutions in a cutting-edge laboratory environment.

The position emphasizes building autonomous experiments, scaling to production lab environments, and collaborating with chemists, biologists, and automation engineers to