Director - Drug Discovery AI

Job Title: Director - Drug Discovery AI Company: Eli Lilly Job Category: Machine Learning Roles & Responsibilities: 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. At Lilly, everything we do starts with patients. We unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our global team of over 50,000 employees work with urgency and purpose to discover and deliver life\-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. We bring our best to this work because people depend on it. If you're driven by purpose and determined to make a meaningful difference for patients, we invite you to bring your skill and your commitment to Lilly. At Lilly, technology is not a support function. It is how a global medicine company operates, innovates, and delivers. Lilly in Bengaluru builds the capabilities that make this possible, cloud platforms, AI systems, and automation at enterprise scale, all in service of a purpose that makes this technology work genuinely distinctive, from advancing drug discovery to enabling connected clinical trials to keeping a global medicine company running at the standard patients deserve. Role Overview As a Director of Drug Discovery AI, you will set scientific direction and technical strategy for AI research programs that span the full drug discovery value chain. This includes target identification and validation, hit finding, lead optimization, ADMET and developability, and translational biomarker discovery across small molecules, biologics, and genetic medicines. You will lead a team of AI scientists, AI engineers, and computational chemists and biologists, partnering closely with experimental scientists in Lilly Research Laboratories to turn frontier AI research into scalable, production\-grade capabilities that accelerate the delivery of new medicines. AI is your core expertise: you are a world\-class machine learning scientist with deep fluency across chemistry, biology, and genomics, and you can see how advances in one modality or discovery stage can be applied to another. This role requires a track record of scientific leadership, strategic influence, and building large\-scale AI research programs in the life sciences. In return, you will have the scale to make your work count: Lilly’s proprietary chemical, biological, and experimental data; the most powerful AI supercomputer owned and operated by a pharmaceutical company; and strategic collaborators. Key Responsibilities Ensure rigorous evaluation of new methods against leading academic and industry benchmarks and against prospective experimental outcomes Build and lead people Build, mentor, and develop high\-performing teams of AI scientists, AI engineers, and computational chemists and biologists, and cultivate the next generation of research leaders. Represent Lilly in the external scientific community through publications, partnerships, and conference leadership. Work Location: Karnataka, India Availability: Full time

Basic Qualifications Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, with hands\-on experience developing and evaluating novel models. Preferred Qualifications Key Skills: Machine Learning, Python, PyTorch Salary: Not disclosed