AI Engineer

Teradata; Montpelier (VT); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking an experienced AI engineer to design autonomous agents and agentic AI systems at scale. You will build cloud-native frameworks that enable agents to reason, plan, act, and collaborate in production environments, while ensuring governance, safety, and compliance across deployments.

You will partner with product leaders, architects, and platform teams to define enterprise-grade AI capabilities, and contribute to scalable production infra across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing autonomous AI agents at scale.
• Experience building agent-based architectures and runtime components.
• Hands-on governance, safety, and compliance in AI environments.
• Ability to partner with product leaders, architects and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build autonomous AI systems for enterprise-scale use.
• Lead scalable, secure, cloud-native AI frameworks for reasoning and action.
• Develop core runtime components powering GenAI and agentic solutions.
• Collaborate with researchers, platform teams and product leadership.
• Enable customers to leverage safe, governed AI agents delivering business value.

Skills

Autonomous AI design

Agent-based architectures

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud-native deployments

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

MCP servers

Vector databases

RAG systems

NLP frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Our company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach. Teradata delivers real business value with AI.

What You’ll Do

In this role you will…

• Design and build intelligent, autonomous AI systems that enable Teradata to push the boundaries of enterprise-scale agentic technology.

• Lead the development of scalable, secure, cloud-native frameworks that allow AI agents to reason, plan, act, and collaborate in real-world production environments.

• Create the foundational runtime components, automation capabilities, and infrastructure that power next-generation GenAI and Agentic AI solutions.

• Work closely with AI researchers, platform teams, and product leadership to bring advanced agentic capabilities from concept to production across Teradata’s data and AI platform.

• Succeed in this role by enabling enterprise customers to leverage powerful, resilient, and safely governed AI agents that drive measurable business value.

Who You’ll Work With

On our team, we…

• Are part of Teradata’s global engineering organization, responsible for building the technologies that power VantageCloud, our unified data and AI platform.

• Operate at the intersection of cloud computing, advanced analytics, and AI-driven automation to help enterprises unify and analyze data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

• Solve highly complex challenges in scalability, performance, interoperability, and intelligent automation to enable customers to turn data into insights and innovation.

• Collaborate across research, architecture, platform engineering, and product teams to shape the future of enterprise AI.

• This position reports into the AI engineering leadership team within Teradata’s global engineering organization.

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

• Proven experience designing, developing, and deploying autonomous AI agents at scale.

• Expertise in building agent-based architectures and runtime components for next-generation AI/LLM systems.

• Hands-on experience implementing governance, safety, and compliance in agentic AI environments.

• Ability to partner effectively with product leaders, architects, and platform teams to define enterprise-grade AI capabilities.

• Strong technical ability with intelligent automation, generative AI, and agentic system design.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.

• Experience in software architecture, backend development, or AI infrastructure, with strong Python skills and familiarity with Java, Go, and C++.

• Deep expertise in agent development, LLM integration, prompt engineering, runtime systems, and AI tooling.

• Experience with MCP servers, vector databases, RAG systems, graph-based memory, and NLP frameworks.

• Ability to design core agentic capabilities such as memory management, context handling, observability, and identity.

• Strong background in distributed systems, backend services, API design, and cloud-native deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Proficiency with containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and scalable production infrastructures.

• Excellent communication skills, documentation habits, and ability to mentor or collaborate across teams.

• Passion for building safe, human-aligned, autonomous systems and extending open-source tools to innovate.

Why We Think You'll Love Teradata

We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are committed to actively working to foster an inclusive environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.

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Teradata is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate based upon race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

We welcome and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply and join our team, bringing their unique perspectives and experiences to help us innovate and grow.

If you require accommodations during the interview process, please let your recruiter know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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