Senior AI Platform Leader — Flexible Work Model

Teradata Group; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata in the United States is seeking a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the evolution of our next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents. You will oversee a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, define the product and data science strategy, and ensure the platform is scalable, performant, and production-ready.

You will partner with product, research, and engineering to shape capabilities such as memory, planning, multi-agent coordination, and tool

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software/platform engineering or data science.
• 3+ years in engineering management or technical leadership overseeing AI initiatives.
• Proven experience building and scaling distributed systems or cloud platforms in production.
• Strong background in backend development, APIs, infrastructure, or platform architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms, LLM integrations, and data science pipelines.
• Experience with vector databases, semantic search, and feature stores in production.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the AI Platform engineering and data science roadmap.
• Collaborate with product, data science, research, and engineering to define capabilities for memory, planning, multi-agent coordination, 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, internal data science services, and infrastructure platforms to enable real-world agent execution at scale.
• Guide 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 and design reviews, system reliability practices, and collaboration across engineering functions.
• Contribute to the long-term vision of agentic workflows powered by data science and ML across the organization.

Skills

Leading platform engineering teams

Data science leadership

Backend APIs

Cloud-native infrastructure

AI/ML platforms

Data science pipelines

Tools

LLM integrations

Vector databases

Semantic search

Feature stores

Job description

Teradata in the United States is seeking a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the evolution of our next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents. You will oversee a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, define the product and data science strategy, and ensure the platform is scalable, performant, and production-ready.

You will partner with product, research, and engineering to shape capabilities such as memory, planning, multi-agent coordination, and tool