Job Summary

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, 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 A forward deployed engineer is a senior, hands-on builder who works at the point where technology meets the business problem. You will be embedded with stakeholder teams, own outcomes end to end (discovery, design, build, deploy, adoption), and stay close enough to users to see what works and what does not.

This is a senior individual-contributor role. You will spend most of your time building, across the front end, back end and AI layer, while working directly with product owners, system custodians, architects and compliance partners. You will operate with minimal supervision, set patterns and standards for others to follow, and mentor developers and engineers around you. Success means shipping reliable, well-governed solutions that people use, and that move a business metric.

What You Will Build

- Customer-facing and internal web applications in React, Nuxt or Vue, backed by Node.js APIs, built directly with business teams and shipped on short cycles.
- Agentic and LLM-powered workflows for content,



engagement and medical use cases: multi-agent orchestration, tool use and intelligent automation of manual work.
- RAG and semantic search solutions over enterprise content and data, including embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking and Text2SQL where it fits.
- Production AI services and APIs that integrate with enterprise data platforms, content systems and downstream product workflows.
- Reusable patterns, templates, and accelerators that turn a one-off solution into something other teams can adopt.

Key Responsibilities

Embed and discover

- Embed with business, medical and marketing teams to understand their workflows, pain points and constraints first-hand.
- Frame ambiguous problems, decide what is worth building, and be direct about what is not feasible.
- Prototype quickly, put working software in front of users early, and iterate on their feedback. Build and deliver end to end

- Design and build full-stack solutions: responsive front ends, API integrations, Node.js services and the data layer behind them.
- Integrate LLMs, RAG, agents and AI services into products, with evaluation, guardrails and monitoring for quality, latency and cost.

- Own the delivery lifecycle: scoping and estimation, development, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment,



monitoring and support handover.
- Work with the technical lead and system custodian to keep what you ship maintainable, observable, and secure.

Architecture and standards

- Make architectural decisions that improve efficiency and maintain compliance in a regulated space.
- Turn what you learn in the field into reusable components, templates, and reference implementations for cross-functional teams.

- Set and uphold coding standards, review practices and engineering patterns across teams. Responsible AI, security and governance

- Apply secure-by-design and privacy-by-design principles, and build in traceability, grounding, auditability and human oversight.
- Work with quality, compliance and risk partners, so solutions meet regulatory and enterprise requirements, including content review processes.

- Maintain transparent architecture, design, and support documentation for everything you put into production.

Mentoring and influence

- Provide hands-on technical guidance to developers and engineers, review designs and code, and raise the bar through practical examples.

- Communicate trade-offs, risks and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders.
- Bring practical feasibility, scalability, and value considerations into roadmap planning.

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📌 Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Eli Lilly
📍 Bengaluru