Principal Engineer, Autonomous AI Platform

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

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a hands-on, deeply technical Principal Engineer to lead innovation in autonomous AI agents. You will design, build, and deploy secure agent frameworks and orchestration models at enterprise scale, shaping governance and safety across platforms.

You’ll collaborate with product leaders, architects, and platform teams to advance the Teradata AI Studio and related enterprise solutions, ensuring observability, performance, and reliable deployments in production.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software architecture, backend systems, or AI infrastructure.
• Experience with autonomous agent frameworks and AI orchestration models.
• Ability to build secure, scalable AI agent systems.
• Strong collaboration across product, architecture, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect foundational components for production-grade AI systems.
• Design and implement secure, scalable agent frameworks.
• Define roadmap for agent management from discovery to retirement.
• Ensure agents are secure by design with guardrails.
• Lead multi-agent collaboration and observability.

Skills

Software architecture

Backend systems

AI infrastructure

LangChain

AutoGen

CrewAI

LLMs

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Agent Harness

Agent Skills

memory

planning loops

execution chains

vector DBs

graph memory

Job description

Teradata is seeking a hands-on, deeply technical Principal Engineer to lead innovation in autonomous AI agents. You will design, build, and deploy secure agent frameworks and orchestration models at enterprise scale, shaping governance and safety across platforms.

You’ll collaborate with product leaders, architects, and platform teams to advance the Teradata AI Studio and related enterprise solutions, ensuring observability, performance, and reliable deployments in production.