Senior AI Platform Architect & Leader

Teradata Group; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the design, evolution, and scaling of its enterprise AI platforms. You will own architecture decisions, set technical standards, and drive cross-team alignment to deliver reliable, scalable AI capabilities across the stack.

You will partner closely with product and architecture leadership to translate business needs into robust solutions, guiding initiatives spanning agentic AI, LLM platforms, retrieval augmented generation, vector stores, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience building backend services, distributed systems, or data/AI platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Go, or Python, with experience building large-scale services.
• Deep understanding of distributed system design, scalability, fault tolerance, and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of large-scale, distributed AI systems powering Teradata’s AI platform and AI native products.
• Own end-to-end architecture for agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, vector search, semantic retrieval, and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Drive technical strategy and architectural consistency across multiple engineering teams.
• Design and implement production-grade AI systems using LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and agent-based architectures.
• Build scalable, secure platform services and APIs supporting AI workloads across the software development lifecycle.
• Define and implement guardrails for reliability, safety, governance, and cost control in enterprise AI systems.
• Mentor Senior and Staff engineers, providing guidance on architecture, design reviews, and technical decision-making.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

Distributed systems

SQL

NoSQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Teradata is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the design, evolution, and scaling of its enterprise AI platforms. You will own architecture decisions, set technical standards, and drive cross-team alignment to deliver reliable, scalable AI capabilities across the stack.

You will partner closely with product and architecture leadership to translate business needs into robust solutions, guiding initiatives spanning agentic AI, LLM platforms, retrieval augmented generation, vector stores, and