Senior AI Platform Leader: Scale Autonomous Agents

Teradata; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead development of the next-generation platform powering autonomous AI-driven agents. You will oversee a multidisciplinary team, align with product and AI research, and ensure performance and production-readiness of the platform.

The role requires deep expertise in AI/ML, data science methods, and scalable cloud architectures, with a focus on agentic workflows and tool orchestration at scale.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software/platform engineering or data science, with 3+ years in engineering management or technical leadership roles overseeing AI-driven initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering and data science roadmap for the AI Platform, ensuring architectural scalability, reliability, and seamless integration with LLMs, data science pipelines.
• Partner with product, data science, research, and engineering teams to define requirements for capabilities such as predictive modeling, memory, planning, multi-agent collaboration, and tool orchestration.
• Drive the 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 and model deployment at scale.
• Guide the team in applying best practices 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 and design reviews, system reliability practices, and collaboration across engineering functions.
• Contribute to the long-term vision and strategy of how agentic workflows, powered by data science and machine learning, will operate at scale across the organization.

Skills

Leadership

Platform engineering

Data science

AI/LLM experience

Cloud-native

Backend development

APIs

Tools

Vector databases

LLM integrations

Job description

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead development of the next-generation platform powering autonomous AI-driven agents. You will oversee a multidisciplinary team, align with product and AI research, and ensure performance and production-readiness of the platform.

The role requires deep expertise in AI/ML, data science methods, and scalable cloud architectures, with a focus on agentic workflows and tool orchestration at scale.