Senior AI Platform Leader

Teradata; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata Corporation seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development and evolution of our next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents. You will guide a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, driving product and data science strategy and ensuring a production-ready, extensible platform.

You will oversee architecture, data pipelines, and tool orchestration, partnering with product teams to define capabilities such as memory, planning, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software/platform engineering or data science
• 3+ years in engineering management or technical leadership roles overseeing AI-driven initiatives
• Proven experience building and scaling distributed systems or cloud platforms in production environments
• Strong technical background in backend development, APIs, infrastructure, or platform architecture
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms, LLM integrations, and data science methodologies including model development, evaluation, and deployment
• Proven experience with vector databases, semantic search, feature stores, and end-to-end data science pipelines in production environments
• Strong project management skills with cross-functional delivery experience
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with executive stakeholders, researchers, and engineers
• Passion for building platforms enabling autonomous behavior at scale

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering and data science roadmap for the AI Platform, ensuring scalability and reliable integration with LLMs
• Partner with product, data science, research, and engineering teams to define capabilities like predictive modeling, memory, planning, multi-agent collaboration, and tool orchestration
• Drive design and implementation of core platform services including API gateways, vector store integrations, RAG pipelines, and data science experimentation frameworks
• Oversee integrations with third-party tools and infrastructure platforms to enable real-world agent execution and model deployment at scale
• Guide the team in cloud-native development, distributed computing, observability, and security
• Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of backend engineers, data scientists, and AI platform specialists
• Ensure alignment between platform capabilities and evolving needs from AI product lines and downstream applications
• Drive technical excellence through code/design reviews and reliability practices across engineering functions
• Contribute to long-term vision of agentic workflows powered by data science and ML across the organization

Skills

Software engineering

Data science

Engineering management

AI platforms

LLM integrations

Distributed systems

Tools

Vector databases

APIs

Data science pipelines

Cloud platforms

Job description

Teradata Corporation seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development and evolution of our next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents. You will guide a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, driving product and data science strategy and ensuring a production-ready, extensible platform.

You will oversee architecture, data pipelines, and tool orchestration, partnering with product teams to define capabilities such as memory, planning, and