Principal Engineer

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.

Bangalore, 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 forDevX’sagentic/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 andenforce codequality 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 tomore juniorengineers on complex problems.

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

• Drive platform thinking and reusability through technical design.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related study, or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience of software/platform engineering with deep expertise in production systems at scale.

• Expert-level depth in agentic systems (orchestration, tools), RAG/retrieval, telemetry, CI/CD, and cloud security.

• Advanced Python proficiency for building production platform capabilities; experience with modern frameworks and type-safe development.

• Ability to translate AI-SDLC/RAI policy into practical engineering standards.

• Strong technical communication and ability to mentor engineers.

Preferred/Nice to have

• Production rollout of LLM agents; AWS (EKS/ECS, Lambda, IAM, Bedrock).

• IaC(Terraform) and cost/performance optimization experience.

• Experience with GitHub Copilot and AtlassianRovoenterprise deployments.

• Platform integration experience (GitHub APIs, Atlassian APIs, enterprise system integrations).

What Takeda Can Offer You

• Takeda is certified as a Top Employer, not only in India, but also globally. No investment we make pays greater dividends than taking good care of our people.
• At Takeda, you take the lead on building and shaping your own career.
• Joining the ICC in Bangalore will give you access to high-end technology, continuous training and a diverse and inclusive network of colleagues who will support your career growth.

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
• Health & Wellness programs including annual health screening, weekly health sessions for employees.
• Employee Assistance Program
• 5 days of leave every year for Voluntary Service in additional to Humanitarian Leaves
• Broad Variety of learning platforms 
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
• No Meeting Days
• Reimbursements – Home Internet & Mobile Phone
• Employee Referral Program
• Leaves – Paternity Leave (4 Weeks) , Maternity Leave (up to 26 weeks), Bereavement Leave (5 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.