Principal Engineer, Agentic AI

Teradata Group; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives

People-first culture

Job summary

A leading analytics company in San Jose seeks a Senior AI Engineer to design and develop AI-native workflows, enhancing engineering productivity and operational excellence. You will build intelligent agents, architect systems, and collaborate across teams to drive AI practices. Ideal candidates will have over 8 years of experience in software engineering and strong expertise in Python. This role offers a flexible work model and is committed to a people-first culture focusing on diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on AI/ML.
• Proven experience building AI agents and autonomous workflows.
• Strong programming expertise in Python and at least one of Java or Go.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of AI-native workflows.
• Architect and build AI agents for observability and optimization.
• Drive AI-native development practices across engineering teams.

Skills

Software engineering

AI/ML systems

Python programming

Java or Go programming

OpenTelemetry

Distributed systems

Multi-step reasoning workflows

Job description

Our company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.

What you will do

In this role you will:

• Lead the design and development of AI-native agentic workflows that enhance engineering productivity, observability intelligence, and end-to-end operational excellence across Teradata’s AI Platform.
• This is a Senior Individual Contributor role focused on building and deploying intelligent agents—not just integrating automation tools, but architecting AI-driven systems that reason, analyze, and act across telemetry, applications, and workflows.
• Architect and build AI agents for observability, automated root cause analysis, anomaly detection, and engineering productivity optimization.
• Design agentic workflows that integrate across telemetry pipelines, application stacks, and cloud infrastructure.
• Develop AI-driven tooling to accelerate development velocity, reduce operational toil, and improve MTTR.
• Apply LLMs, reasoning frameworks, and advanced AI patterns to automate complex debugging and system diagnostics.
• Drive AI-native development practices across apps, tooling, and platform engineering.
• Partner across engineering teams to embed intelligent automation into CI/CD, DevOps, and support workflows.
• Apply foundational AI skills to explore and implement ways AI can enhance productivity, innovation, and impact across our workforce.
• Your work will directly shape how Teradata builds, monitors, and operates its AI-powered platform. Success in this role means measurable improvements in engineering efficiency, system reliability, and autonomous operations maturity.

Who you will work with

On our team, we:

• Build the AI Platform tooling, automation, and agentic frameworks that power next‑generation applications and operational intelligence at Teradata.
• You will report directly to the VP, AI Apps Tooling & Automation – AI Platform.
• The team drives AI‑first application development, intelligent DevOps tooling, and agent‑based productivity systems.
• We enable engineering teams across the company to leverage AI responsibly and effectively.
• We partner with AI research, platform engineering, cloud operations, and product teams to integrate observability and automation into the core platform.
• We collaborate with colleagues who share a commitment to leveraging AI responsibly, ensuring our people and customers benefit from the opportunities AI creates.
• This team plays a foundational role in advancing Teradata’s AI‑first strategy by transforming how software is built and operated.

What makes you a qualified candidate

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with deep exposure to AI/ML systems in production environments.
• Proven experience building AI agents, LLM‑driven systems, or autonomous workflows—not just consuming AI APIs.
• Strong programming expertise in Python (required) and at least one of Java or Go.
• Experience working with distributed systems, telemetry data, and observability architectures.
• Foundational AI skills, including prompt engineering, model evaluation, agent orchestration, reasoning frameworks, and the ability to apply AI to improve engineering and operational outcomes.

What you will bring

• Experience building agentic systems for observability, automated remediation, or intelligent diagnostics (ideal background from AI-native or data observability companies such as Acceldata).
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, distributed tracing systems, or similar observability stacks.
• Hands‑on experience integrating LLMs into production workflows with proper guardrails and evaluation mechanisms.
• Strong understanding of AI‑assisted development tooling and productivity optimization.
• Experience designing multi‑step reasoning workflows and autonomous decision agents.
• A systems‑thinking mindset that connects AI models, data pipelines, and operational workflows end‑to‑end.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior engineers and product leaders.
• A passion for how AI can unlock potential to help our teams, our customers, and our communities achieve great things.

Why we think you will 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 an anti‑racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.

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