Research Informatics Platform Engineer

About the role

As a Lilly Research Informatics Platform Engineer, you will build cutting-edge AI & Informatics tools with a team of passionate engineers to accelerate and enhance Lilly’s drug discovery process. You will be hands-on designing architecture, deploying scalable services/integrations, and developing novel software to harness the power of ML & computational tooling to assist researchers in their day-to-day work. You will collaborate closely with partners from Lilly Research Labs, AI, Software Engineering, and industry-leading partners outside Lilly to accelerate medicine discovery.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and develop robust, scalable, and secure software solutions with a hands-on approach.
• Collaborate within a team of engineers, using best practices in software development such as design review, code reviews, testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Build and maintain microservices architectures and APIs, ensuring seamless interoperability and data flow across platforms.
• Implement containerization solutions, particularly using Kubernetes, to support deployment and scaling needs.
• Collaborate with diverse technical teams, including R&D, Data Science, IT Operations, and AI/ML teams, to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Ensure optimal system performance, reliability, and security through proactive monitoring, automated testing, and continuous improvement.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues in a complex microservice architecture, collaborating across teams to identify, resolve, and build future mitigation strategies.
• Monitor and track operational metrics.
• Ensure robust integration of AI/ML models into production environments, focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Software Engineering.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in architecture and software engineering.
• Experience with Go, Rust, Java, C++, or other OOP languages.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or JavaScript.
• Worked with Containers, Serverless, Kubernetes, and other hosting targets.
• Understanding of HTTP and RESTful-based APIs.
• Experience applying test-driven development methodologies to catch bugs early and prevent feature reversion.
• Experience using CI tools to automatically test and CD tools to automatically deploy code updates.
• Experience applying systems engineering concepts to distributed systems with high throughput and availability requirements.

Preferences

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Software Engineering.
• Proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional IT solutions.

Location & Work Flexibility

This role is based at our Corporate Center in Indianapolis. We offer a flexible hybrid work model, with three days onsite and two days working remotely each week, supporting both collaboration and work-life balance. Remote employees will be considered for those not based near Indianapolis, IN.

Pay

The anticipated wage for this position is $132,000 - $244,200. Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit program including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits.
• Eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k) and pension.
• Vacation 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).