At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

Role Overview

You will work closely with product managers, software engineers, data scientists, architects, and business stakeholders to develop production-ready AI systems leveraging machine learning, deep learning, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, Small Language Models, intelligent agents, and modern MLOps practices.





This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex business problems through innovative AI technologies while maintaining a solid focus on scalability, reliability, governance, and user value.

Key Responsibilities

AI/ML Solution Architecture and Engineering
- Architect and build production-grade machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, and agentic AI systems for commercial and field engagement use cases.
- Lead technical design for solutions involving retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, semantic search, LLM orchestration, Text2SQL, recommendation systems, predictive modeling, and intelligent workflow automation.
- Design, train, fine-tune, and deploy neural network models for domain-specific commercial and field use cases, including deep learning architectures such as Transformers, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and LSTMs as applicable.
- Develop deep learning solutions that prioritize performance, generalization, explainabi

📌 Sr. Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Eli Lilly
📍 Bengaluru