Postdoctoral Fellow - Agentic AI Solutions and SciML

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.  Organization Overview: Delivery, Devices, and Connected Solutions (DDCS) sits within Eli Lilly's Product Research & Development organization. We are a diverse team of scientists and engineers responsible for discovering, designing, and developing patient-centric drug delivery solutions across a broad range of modalities — from injection devices to novel routes of administration and nanomedicines. DDCS drives the drug delivery innovation agenda across early and late development to meet the needs of an expanding portfolio that spans small molecules, biologics, and nucleic acid therapeutics.      DDCS is organized around a matrix model with strong disciplinary and functional horizontals supporting innovation and commercialization verticals. Our vision is to get our medicines to more patients faster by accelerating reach and scale, guided by three strategic pillars: Delivery Systems, Robust & Sustainable, and Patient Experience + Outcomes.      The Digital Transformation and Data Science team within DDCS serves as a key foundation for DDCS's digital transformation efforts. The team helps make data work more effectively for the organization by turning information into faster insights, stronger decision-making, improved ways of working, and practical AI solutions embedded in everyday DDCS workflows.

Overview:    The Postdoctoral Fellow, Agentic AI Solutions and SciML will partner with DDCS business functions to help translate machine learning, statistics, scientific computing, and AI concepts into practical tools that improve speed, productivity, and impact across the organization. Operating within the Digital Transformation and Data Science team, this role will assist in the design, build, and deployment of AI-enabled workflows, agentic scientific systems, knowledge extraction tools, and scientific ML capabilities into actionable decisions.

AI Solutions Engineering & Practical Tool Delivery    Partner with business functions across DDCS to identify, prioritize, and scope high-value opportunities where AI, machine learning, and automation can improve speed, productivity, insight generation, and decision quality. Translate stakeholder needs into practical AI tools, technical designs, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans that fit real scientific, engineering, and operational workflows. Develop AI-enabled applications, services, and workflows that integrate models, data sources, document collections, and user-facing interfaces for decision support and workflow automation.   Agentic Scientific AI Systems & Knowledge Extraction    Create reusable scientific agent skills, task harnesses, validators, run ledgers, and reproducibility controls that allow AI agents to execute diverse, long-running tasks reliably. Build agentic knowledge extraction and question-answering systems for structured and unstructured technical content, including PDFs, Word documents, handwritten notes, design histories, experimental records, and regulatory-relevant evidence. Design evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop escalation patterns so agentic outputs are auditable, traceable, and appropriate for high-consequence technical decisions. Apply knowledge graphs, data ontologies, and structured knowledge representation where