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Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Eli Lilly and Company
Bengaluru, IND
Full-time
Senior · 8+ years experience
Onsite
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Role Overview
We are looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI Engineering team, with a primary focus on Hands-On Engineering (MLE) and MLOps & Platform Reliability and GenAI & Agentic Systems. This posting is at level R3 on our engineering ladder — see the level framing below for the expected scope of ownership and impact.
Level framing: Recognized technical expert; leads decisions on technical approach for projects; solves complex problems and innovates solutions; drives improvements across multiple projects/teams; may manage budgets.
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Role Overview
We are looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to join the AI Engineering team, with a primary focus on Hands-On Engineering (MLE) and MLOps & Platform Reliability and GenAI & Agentic Systems. This posting is at level R3 on our engineering ladder — see the level framing below for the expected scope of ownership and impact.
Level framing: Recognized technical expert; leads decisions on technical approach for projects; solves complex problems and innovates solutions; drives improvements across multiple projects/teams; may manage budgets.
Core Responsibilities
- Design and build complex ML/AI systems and services, setting the technical approach for your workstream.
- Solve complex, ambiguous technical problems that span multiple components or teams.
- Set code-quality and engineering standards for your area, and lead by example in code review.
- Own the MLOps design for a significant system: CI/CD, orchestration (Kubernetes/Prefect), and production monitoring.
- Lead root-cause analysis for complex production incidents and drive systemic fixes, not just patches.
- Extend the team's MLOps frameworks to support new model types or deployment patterns.
- Lead design of agentic AI systems (e.g. LangGraph-based), including multi-step reasoning and RAG architecture decisions.
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