Senior AI Platform Leader — Scale Autonomous Agents & ML

Teradata; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care benefits

Retirement savings plans

Life and disability insurance

Time-off programs

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the evolution of our next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents.

This role combines data science expertise and technical depth to scale a distributed system that enables reasoning, memory, and tool use at runtime. You will guide a multidisciplinary team and align platform capabilities with evolving AI product needs.

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.
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems or cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering and data science roadmap for the AI Platform, ensuring architectural scalability, reliability, and seamless integration with LLMs.
• 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 will operate at scale across the organization.

Skills

Platform engineering

Data science leadership

Cloud-native infrastructure

LLM integrations

Distributed systems

Communication skills

API gateways

Vector stores

Tools

APIs

RAG pipelines

Vector stores

Job description

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the evolution of our next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents.

This role combines data science expertise and technical depth to scale a distributed system that enables reasoning, memory, and tool use at runtime. You will guide a multidisciplinary team and align platform capabilities with evolving AI product needs.