Engineer - HPC Platform
Company: Eli Lilly and Company
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: January 2, 2026
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Job Description:
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. Be a catalyst for
innovation in high performance computing at Lilly—seize the chance
to transform and accelerate our HPC future! The Cloud and
Connectivity organization is seeking an HPC Platform Engineer. This
role will focus on enabling analytical, statistical, and scientific
computing capabilities within Lilly’s high performance computing
infrastructure. We are looking for an HPC Platform Engineer to help
accelerate the next era of high performance computing innovation.
What You’ll Be Doing: You will be a leader the engineering and
operations of design, build, and maintain scalable HPC platforms.
You will play a crucial role in enabling Lilly’s HPC infrastructure
and experiences. Collaborate with researchers and scientists to
optimize performance and streamline workflows. Leverage tooling and
automation for orchestration, resource scheduling, data access, and
reproducibility. Evolve and operate public cloud and on-premises
environments with a focus on availability and performance for HPC
workloads. Define and monitor infrastructure metrics, resource
utilization, among others. How You’ll Succeed: Be Bold - You will
bring a high learning agility and platform engineering skills to
enable the Lilly Technology strategy, identifying opportunities to
accelerate our HPC journey. Be Fast - You will advance initiatives
to enable critical business projects. Be Proactive - You will have
opportunities to leverage agile ways of working with a willingness
to become an expert in deploying HPC solutions. Be Your Best - You
will learn about new technologies in HPC. What You Should Bring:
Hands-on experience in HPC platforms, including knowledge of
accelerators (e.g., GPU), HPC schedulers (e.g., Altair Grid Engine,
Slurm), Kubernetes platforms, and containers technologies (Docker,
Apptainer). Demonstrated experience in HPC workloads,
infrastructure, and cluster architectures. Expertise with the Linux
command line, Linux troubleshooting, and HPC administration.
Experience with DevOps tools such as Github, Chef, Ansible, and
Terraform. Experience with automating infrastructure and
applications. Passion for continual learning and staying informed
of new technologies, infrastructure trends, and approaches in the
HPC field. Strong programming and scripting skills in languages
such as Python or Bash. Basic Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in
Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical
field. 2 years’ experience as an HPC Platform Engineer. Additional
Information Demonstrated experience leading a global large-scale
infrastructure project. Hybrid role located in Indianapolis, IN
(relocation required) Organization Overview: Lilly IT builds and
maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most
prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we
redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose –
creating medicines that make life better for people around the
world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical
trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of
backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills,
and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area
of our business. The Global Information and Services Tech team is
at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire
company, with increased productivity and best-in-class Customer
experiences. This team provides a robust and sustainable
infrastructure of hardware, software and services that are critical
to enable our global workforce and business to operate and
transform. As leaders in technology and understanding business
requirements and challenges, this team defines and leads the
overall company technology strategy. Lilly is dedicated to helping
individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce,
ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you
require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly,
please complete the accommodation request form (
https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation ) for
further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request
an accommodation as part of the application process and any other
correspondence will not receive a response. Lilly is proud to be an
EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race,
color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual
orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin,
protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally
protected status. Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong
support networks for their members and are open to all employees.
Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia
Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network,
Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India
Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ
Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for
Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities).
Learn more about all of our groups. Actual compensation will depend
on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic
location. The anticipated wage for this position is $64,500 -
$158,400 Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a
company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual
performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit
program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate
in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits;
eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug
benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day
care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death
benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and
well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness
benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the
right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit
programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices
and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or
transfer of Lilly employees. WeAreLilly
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