Senior AI Platform Leader: Scale Autonomous Agents

Teradata Corporation (SE); Annapolis (MD); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the AI Platform, guiding a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists to advance an autonomous, AI-driven platform. You will shape product and data science strategy, ensure performance and production readiness, and partner across product and research to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes architectural scalability, cloud-native practices, and collaboration with executive stakeholders to drive impactful enterprise

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software/platform engineering or data science with 3+ years in engineering management or 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 methodologies including model development, evaluation, and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering and data science roadmap for the AI Platform, ensuring architectural scalability and reliable integration with LLMs and data pipelines.
• Define requirements for capabilities such as predictive modeling, memory, planning, multi-agent collaboration, and tool orchestration.
• Design and implement 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 scalable agent execution and model deployment.
• Guide the team in cloud-native development, distributed computing, observability, and security.
• 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 code and design reviews, system reliability practices, and cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Platform engineering

Data science leadership

Cloud-native

LLM integration

Distributed systems

AI/ML pipelines

Education

MS in Computer Science

Tools

Vector databases

Semantic search

Kubernetes

Job description

Teradata Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the AI Platform, guiding a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists to advance an autonomous, AI-driven platform. You will shape product and data science strategy, ensure performance and production readiness, and partner across product and research to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes architectural scalability, cloud-native practices, and collaboration with executive stakeholders to drive impactful enterprise