Director - Drug Discovery AI

About the role

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.

What you'll do

• Advance foundation models and next-generation AI methods
• Set the architectural direction for large-scale foundation models trained on Lilly’s proprietary chemical, biological, and experimental data
• Advance the methods that most improve discovery outcomes, including self-supervised and multi-task learning, generative and diffusion-based approaches
• Ensure rigorous evaluation of new methods against leading academic and industry benchmarks and against prospective experimental outcomes
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing teams of AI scientists, AI engineers, and computational chemists and biologists

What you need

• 6–11 yrs of experience
• Machine learning
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Physics
• Python
• PyTorch
• PhD

Good to have

• IPR