Software Engineer, TuneLab

Position: Staff Software Engineer, TuneLab
At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We're looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

** Organization Overview*
* Lilly Catalyze
360 is a comprehensive approach to enabling the early-stage biotech ecosystem by democratizing access to infrastructure, expertise, and resources. Through its interconnected pillars-Lilly Ventures, Lilly Gateway Labs, Lilly Explo

R&D, and Lilly Tune Lab-Catalyze
360 strategically removes barriers that traditionally block bold science from becoming life-changing medicines, providing biotechs with flexible combinations of capital, physical lab space, R&D capabilities, AI/ML tools, and decades of enterprise learning.

Lilly Tune Lab is an artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) platform that provides biotech companies access to drug discovery models trained on years of Lilly's research data. Lilly estimates that this first release of AI models includes proprietary data obtained at a cost of over $1 billion, representing one of the industry's most valuable datasets used to train an AI system available to biotechnology companies.

By integrating advanced in silico modelling and federated learning, we connect pioneering machine learning algorithms, substantial computational power, exclusive datasets, and Lilly's domain-specific knowledge to drive innovation in drug discovery and facilitate access to optimal therapies for patients.

** Job Summary*
* Tune Lab has powerful underlying AI models and point solutions. The job now is to turn them into something a biotech startup can actually use: a coherent workflow, a clean product experience, and a SaaS offering that scales.

You won't start from zero. There are working point solutions, trained models, and internal infrastructure to build on. Federated learning is a meaningful part of the work - letting biotech customers use Lilly's models without their data leaving their environment. Plenty else is yours to create from scratch.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be one of the founding engineers on this team. This is an IC role with real scope. You'll own product end-to-end, set the technical direction, and make the architecture calls that decide how fast a small team can move.

There's no tech lead above you to defer to and no architecture council to escalate to. You're the senior engineer in the room.

You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with product, design, data science, and report to the Tune Lab Engineering Manager.

** Key Responsibilities*
* ** Build the product*
* + Own product surfaces end-to-end-frontend, backend, data, integrations-whatever the problem requires. You don't hand off; you ship.

+ Architect and build the application layer that wraps Lilly's AI models into reliable, cohesive workflows for biotech customers. Make a set of point solutions feel like a product.

+ Make pragmatic technology decisions. Optimize for speed and quality. Pick boring tools when they work and reach for novel only when it pays.

+ Stay deep in the code. This is a build role, not a review role.

+ Set the engineering bar from scratch-code review, testing, release process, on-call. What you build becomes the team norm.

** Lift the team*
* + Mentor other engineers as the team grows. Make them better at the job, not just better at this codebase.

+ Partner with the Engineering Manager on hiring. You're an interviewer and a recruiter-you sell the role and you hold the bar.

+ Pressure-test the roadmap with the PM and design lead. You have product taste and you use it. You'll push back when a spec is wrong and find the simpler way to ship.

+ Spot the things nobody owns and either pick them up or assign them clearly. The team's gaps are your problem.

** Operate effectively inside a large company*
* + Navigate enterprise infrastructure, security, and compliance requirements without disrupting development progress.

+ Work with Lilly IT and internal platform teams to leverage existing capabilities rather than rebuild them.

+ Represent engineering in conversations with external biotech partners when it matters. You can speak credibly to a CTO on the other side.

** Minimum Requirements*
* +

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

+ 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping SaaS products used by real customers.

+ Demonstrated experience operating as a senior or staff IC on a small team-not just as a senior IC on a large one.

+ Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for…