Principal AI Agent Engineer for Autonomous Systems

Teradata Corporation (SE); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 169,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to lead innovation in agentic AI, building secure, scalable autonomous agents and governance frameworks for enterprise deployments.

You will collaborate with product leaders, architects, and platform teams to define the next-generation agent platform, architecting foundations from agent frameworks to observability. This role emphasizes safety, scalability, and impactful AI at Teradata.

Qualifications

• Hands-on, deeply technical Principal Engineer to lead innovation in the Agentic AI space.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying intelligent agents that can reason, plan, and act autonomously—securely and responsibly at scale.
• Intersections deep systems engineering with modern AI architectures and deployment challenges in enterprise environments.
• Agent management, governance, and compliance at scale, solving complex problems in secure agent design.
• Collaborate with product leaders, architects, and platform teams to define the next-generation agent platform.
• Architect, design, and implement secure, scalable frameworks for autonomous AI agents.
• Lead the technical roadmap for agent management from discovery to retirement.
• Ensure AI agents are secure by design with visibility, guardrails, and accountability.
• Partner with AI researchers and engineers to bring agentic capabilities to production environments.
• Build infrastructure to support multi-agent memory, context management, and extensibility.
• Drive enterprise adoption through safe integration and governance.

Responsibilities

• Architect foundational components for production-grade AI systems including agent frameworks and LLM pipelines.
• Design observability and evaluation layers to ensure reliability and performance in high-stakes deployments.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration to deploy agents at scale in enterprise environments.
• Develop secure, scalable agent management capabilities from discovery through retirement.
• Provide thought leadership on safety, ethics, and governance in autonomous AI systems.

Skills

Agentic AI

Architectural design

Secure by design

Multi-agent orchestration

Cloud-native platforms

LLMs / AI

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Open claw

Calude AP

LangChain

AutoGen

CrewAI

Job description

Teradata is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to lead innovation in agentic AI, building secure, scalable autonomous agents and governance frameworks for enterprise deployments.

You will collaborate with product leaders, architects, and platform teams to define the next-generation agent platform, architecting foundations from agent frameworks to observability. This role emphasizes safety, scalability, and impactful AI at Teradata.