Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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.  About Lilly At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. The Digital Engagement Tech@Lilly team builds solutions and capabilities for Marketing, Corporate Affairs and Medical organizations globally, and owns the consumer platforms and the governance around them.  This role exists because the hardest problems in our space are not solved from a ticket queue. As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will sit with business, medical and marketing teams, understand how they actually work, and build working AI-enabled software with them, fast. You will go from a vague problem to a live product in weeks, then take what you learned and turn it into reusable patterns for the rest of the organization.  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