Principal NLP Engineer for Enterprise AI & Knowledge Graphs

Teradata Group; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Principal NLP Engineer to own the design, development, and deployment of advanced natural language technologies powering semantic graphs, context analysis, and AI agents for the Context Engine. You will lead initiatives spanning transformer architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge graphs within a scalable enterprise platform.

The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership, production-grade systems, and collaboration with researchers and product leaders to

Qualifications

• PhD or MS in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, NLP, or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years building production NLP and ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategic NLP roadmap for the Teradata Knowledge Platform.
• Serve as technical authority for large-scale NLP architecture, algorithms, and production deployment.
• Drive innovation in enterprise language understanding, semantic search, retrieval systems, and AI reasoning.

Job description

Teradata seeks a Principal NLP Engineer to own the design, development, and deployment of advanced natural language technologies powering semantic graphs, context analysis, and AI agents for the Context Engine. You will lead initiatives spanning transformer architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge graphs within a scalable enterprise platform.

The role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership, production-grade systems, and collaboration with researchers and product leaders to