Principal Engineer - Gen AI

As a leading global animal health company, Elanco delivers innovative products and services to improve the health of pets and farm animals around the world because we believe making animals' lives better, makes life better.

Since 1954, we have provided solutions that support veterinarians, farmers and pet owners to advance our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life.

Elanco's promise to employees: Together, we foster an inclusive culture where everyone can make a difference, encouraging ownership, growth and well-being.

Role Title: Principal Engineer – Automation & Generative AI 

 

Team: Digital Products and Engineering 

 

Supervisor: IT Engineering Director 

 

Career Progression: Engineering, Architecture, Analyst  

 

Position Description:  

 

Over the past 4 years Elanco IT has been on an incredibly exciting journey.

Separating from our parent company and standing up on our own gave us a once in a lifetime opportunity to build a modern technology stack - free of the burden of large-scale technical debt.

We are now looking to take this one step further, leveraging newly established engineering capabilities to help Elanco deliver on customer needs faster than ever before. 
 

This role is part of our new enterprise platform engineering team with a specific focus on generative AI capability and their implementation in Elanco.

This role will be working on the cutting edge of GenAI capability strategizing, build and supporting our own implementations in Elanco.

This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to not only work on cutting edge technology but to contribute to the continued growth of a new highly skilled engineering organisation. 

 

To be successful in an engineering role in Elanco requires a highly motivated individual, with an innovative mindset and a willingness to drive tangible outcomes.

The individual must be able to articulate complex technical topics, collaborate with external partners and ensure quality delivery of the required solution.  
 

 

Responsibilities: 

 

Engineering 


* Work with Principal Platform Engineer to help drive direction of platform and automation capabilities including our internal technical products related to GenAI capabilities. 


* Work with a diverse team on some of Elanco’s most exciting engineering initiatives helping drive secure, reliable, and efficient using the latest technology. 


* Look for continuous improvement opportunities in our core ecosystem identifying new ways to enhance application team and developer experience. 


* Bring your expertise into a team of talented engineers and continually help shape where the team can help to better enable our secure, reliable, efficient vision. 


* Follow the value mentality with opportunity to work across the engineering team helping to ‘walk in the shoes’ of application teams as well as operational engineering teams. 

 

Daily / Monthly Responsibilities 


* Build and r...