Principal Engineer

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Job Description

The Future Begins Here

At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities, we are meeting the need of patients, our people, and the planet.

Bengaluru, the city, which is India’s epicenter of Innovation, has been selected to be home to Takeda’s recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.

At Takeda’s ICC we Unite in Diversity

Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators journey in Takeda, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team

THE OPPORTUNITY

Define the technical architecture and standards for DevX’s agentic/GenAI platform. You’ll establish reference implementations, solve the most complex technical challenges, and ensure solutions are secure, observable, reproducible, and compliant with Takeda’s AI-SDLC and Responsible AI frameworks.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Architecture & Technical Leadership

Define reference architectures for agent skills/tools, orchestration, retrieval, and observability; set SLOs for latency, quality, and cost.

Establish technical standards and design patterns for platform components; create reference implementations.

Solve the most complex technical challenges across the platform stack independently.

Make critical technology decisions (framework selection, architecture patterns, performance optimization).

Engineering & Quality

Build and maintain core platform capabilities with production-grade code quality.

Establish guardrails (HITL, prompt/version lineage, audit logs, reproducibility) through technical implementation.

Define and enforce code quality standards, testing strategies, and observability patterns.

Governance & Risk

Embed Responsible AI controls (data minimization, privacy/PII, bias monitoring) into technical architecture.

Maintain a comprehensive decision log and technical standards documentation.

Technical Enablement

Provide technical mentorship and guidance to more junior engineers on complex problems.

Create developer documentation, runbooks, and reference examples for platform adoption.

Drive platform thinking and reusability through technical design.

BENEFITS:

It is our priority to provide competitive compensation and a benefit package that bridges your personal life with your professional career. Amongst our benefits are:

Competitive Salary + Performance Annual Bonus

Flexible work environment, including hybrid working

Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance Plans for self, spouse, and children

Group Term Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance programs

Employee Assistance Program

Broad Variety of learning platforms

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs

Reimbursements – Home Internet & Mobile Phone

Employee Referral Program

Leaves – Paternity Leave (4 Weeks) , Maternity Leave (up to 26 weeks), Bereavement Leave (5 calendar days)

ABOUT ICC IN TAKEDA:

Takeda is leading a digital revolution. We’re not just transforming our company; we’re improving the lives of millions of patients who rely on our medicines every day.

As an organization, we are committed to our cloud-driven business transformation and believe the ICCs are the catalysts of change for our global organization.

Locations

IND - Bengaluru

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time