Senior Principal Software Engineer - R&D Tech
 GlaxoSmithKline | |
 United States, Pennsylvania, Collegeville | |
| 1250 South Collegeville Road (Show on map) | |
 Jan 16, 2026 | |
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Site Name: UK - London - New Oxford Street, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Jan 16 2026 GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver 40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centered on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges. About R&D Technology R&D at GSK is highly data-driven, and we're applying AI/ML and data engineering to generate new insights, enable analytics, gain efficiencies and automation. This role is in R&D Technology where you'll architect and build production-grade applications and data platforms. You'll work on diverse projects spanning regulatory, clinical, legal and HR domains. Versatility is key, with an ability to quickly understand domain data and requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions. You will interact with architects, software and data engineers, AI/ML modelers, product owners as well as other team members across R&D. You will actively participate in creating technical solutions, designs, implementations and participate in the relentless improvement of R&D Tech systems in alignment with agile and DevOps principles. We're seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer with broad expertise across software development, data engineering, cloud architecture, and AI/ML technologies. This is a hands-on technical role where you'll spend the majority of your time writing code, building data pipelines, architecting cloud-native solutions, and integrating AI/ML capabilities into production applications. You'll be a versatile engineer who can work across the full stack, understand data flows, leverage cloud services effectively, and apply AI/ML techniques to solve real-world problems. In this role you will have the opportunity to work on a mixture of the following: Software Engineering & Application Development
Cloud Architecture & Services
Data Engineering
AI/ML & GenAI Integration
Database & Data Management
DevOps & Infrastructure
Cross-team Collaboration
Why you? Basic Qualifications: We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Highly Desired Skills:
Preferred Qualifications: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
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