Principal NLP Engineer for Enterprise AI & Knowledge

Teradata; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a Principal NLP Engineer to own and lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced natural language technologies powering enterprise cognition for their Context Engine in the Autonomous Knowledge Platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an expert in NLP and AI who has shipped production systems serving millions of users.

You will work at the intersection of large language models, information retrieval, knowledge graphs, and agentic AI, guiding both

Qualifications

• PhD or MS in CS/AI/ML/NLP with publications preferred.
• 12+ years software engineering, with 8+ years NLP in production.
• Proven leadership in enterprise NLP, search, or AI copilots.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute NLP roadmap for the Knowledge Platform.
• Lead large-scale NLP architecture and production deployment.
• Develop domain-adaptive language models across enterprises.
• Mentor engineers and promote NLP best practices.

Skills

Leadership

NLP

Machine Learning

Information Retrieval

Knowledge Graphs

Transformer Architectures

Python

PyTorch

Education

PhD or MS in CS/AI/NLP

Tools

Hugging Face ecosystem

Spark

Vector databases

Job description

Teradata is seeking a Principal NLP Engineer to own and lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced natural language technologies powering enterprise cognition for their Context Engine in the Autonomous Knowledge Platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an expert in NLP and AI who has shipped production systems serving millions of users.

You will work at the intersection of large language models, information retrieval, knowledge graphs, and agentic AI, guiding both