Senior AI Engineer

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By clicking the “Apply” button, I understand that my employment application process with Takeda will commence and that the information I provide in my application will be processed in line with Takeda’s Privacy Notice and Terms of Use.  I further attest that all information I submit in my employment application is true to the best of my knowledge. 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 About the role:  As a Senior AI Engineer, you will provide deep hands-on technical ownership in designing, building, and operationalizing scalable enterprise-grade Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions that deliver trusted, actionable intelligence across the business. You will help establish strong engineering standards for AI development, including structured experimentation, evaluation rigor, secure deployment, and reliable production operations, ensuring AI capabilities are delivered responsibly and at enterprise quality.   You will lead the end-to-end lifecycle of AI implementation from problem framing and proof-of-concept through production deployment, monitoring, and continuous optimization embedding governance, observability, performance efficiency, and cost control into solution design. You will lead the end-to-end lifecycle of AI solutions from problem framing and proof-of-concept through production deployment, monitoring, and continuous optimization embedding governance, observability, performance efficiency, and cost control into solution design & implementation. This is a hands-on builder role requiring true ownership of AI-powered solutions across the product lifecycle. The ideal candidate is well-rounded and willing to contribute beyond model development, including data engineering, backend services, application logic, and user-facing components where needed to ensure reliable, scalable production outcomes.  You will collaborate closely with AI product lead, Solution & Design Leads, Delivery Leads, platform teams, and global PDT DD&T stakeholders across India, Europe, and the United States to accelerate modern AI adoption and enterprise-wide value realization.  This role reports to Delivery lead and is aligned with the Data & Analytics chapter within ICC.  How will you contribute  Gen-AI Solutioning & Delivery  • Design and implement end-to-end LLM-powered Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and multi-step reasoning systems.  • Translate business problems into scalable AI architectures spanning data, retrieval, model orchestration, and application layers. Ensure clear alignment on success metrics & business value with Product leads  • Hands-on leadership & contribution for end-to-end AI solution development spanning data pipelines, service-layer APIs, application integration, and UI enablement, in addition to model, prompt, and framework engineering, to deliver scalable production systems.  • Define and maintain reference arc