Creative Technologist - Front End Engineer

Sr. Principal Creative Technologist using AI, modern front-end technology, MCP infrastructure, and agentic workflows. This is a highly hands-on principal-level role for someone who can move rapidly from concept and prototype to production. You will personally build AI-enabled products, internal design tools, integrations, and technical frameworks while establishing standards that can scale across the broader organization.

• Design, prototype, and ship AI-enabled products and internal tools within rapid MVP cycles.
• Architect and integrate MCP servers, agent tooling, LLM APIs, and AI workflows within Lilly's enterprise AI infrastructure.
• Build high-quality front-end experiences using JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks such as React, Vue, or Svelte
• Develop integrations and automations across design and collaboration platforms, including Figma APIs/plugins
• Establish engineering standards for GitHub repositories, branching, permissions, CI, versioning, templates, and documentation
• Create content models, metadata schemas, and governance frameworks that support AI consumption, trust, and provenance.
• Build integrations within the Claude ecosystem, including skills, MCP, projects, and agent workflows.
• Partner with Design, AI, cybersecurity, and platform teams on architecture, security, governance, and compliance.
• Advise design leadership on AI strategy, technical standards, tooling, and investment decisions.

• 10+ years as a Creative Technologist, Design Technologist, Creative Coder, Front-End Engineer, or similar.
• Expert-level HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, plus strong experience with React, Vue, Svelte, or similar frameworks
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI APIs, AI-assisted development, prompt engineering, and agentic workflows
• Experience building or integrating MCP servers, agent tooling, API gateways, or comparable infrastructure
• Strong Git/GitHub engineering and CI/CD experience.
• Experience building internal tools, automations, APIs, plugins, and integrations
• Strong design sensibility with the ability to translate sophisticated designs into polished, pixel-accurate applications.
• Ability to operate independently as the primary engineer while influencing senior design and technical stakeholders.
• Experience establishing technical frameworks or standards adopted across multiple teams.