AI Engineer

Teradata; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Teradata seeks a seasoned AI engineering professional to design and deploy autonomous AI agents at scale within our enterprise platform. You will build secure, cloud-native runtimes and runtimes powering next-generation GenAI, collaborating with researchers, platform teams, and product leaders to bring capabilities from concept to production.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure governance, safety and enterprise-grade AI capabilities, delivering measurable business value for

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and build intelligent, autonomous AI systems enabling Teradata to push enterprise-scale agentic tech.
• Lead development of scalable, secure, cloud-native frameworks for AI agents to reason, plan, act.
• Create foundational runtime components and infrastructure powering GenAI solutions.
• Collaborate with AI researchers, platform teams and leadership to productionize agentic capabilities.
• Enable enterprise customers to leverage safe, resilient AI agents delivering measurable business value.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

C++

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

AI agent development

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MCP servers

Vector databases

RAG systems

Graph-based memory

NLP frameworks

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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