Principal NLP Engineer: Enterprise AI & Knowledge Platform

Teradata; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 183,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Principal NLP Engineer to lead design, development, and deployment of advanced NLP technologies powering its Context Engine. You will own semantic understanding, information extraction, knowledge graphs, and multimodal language tasks at enterprise scale.

The role combines research with hands-on delivery, advancing LLM-based systems, retrieval-augmented generation, and cross-domain applications while mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• PhD or MS in Computer Science, AI, ML, NLP or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including NLP/ML in production.
• Recognized leader in NLP, IR, or AI with production deployment experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the NLP roadmap for the Knowledge Platform.
• Serve as technical authority for large-scale NLP architecture and deployment.
• Drive enterprise language understanding, semantic search, and knowledge extraction.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow/JAX

Spark

Distributed computing

Education

PhD or MS in Computer Science, AI, ML, NLP

Tools

Hugging Face ecosystem

Fine-tuning frameworks

Large-scale model evaluation

Vector databases

Knowledge graphs

Job description

Teradata seeks a Principal NLP Engineer to lead design, development, and deployment of advanced NLP technologies powering its Context Engine. You will own semantic understanding, information extraction, knowledge graphs, and multimodal language tasks at enterprise scale.

The role combines research with hands-on delivery, advancing LLM-based systems, retrieval-augmented generation, and cross-domain applications while mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering best practices.