Senior Manager, AI Platform & Autonomous Agents

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

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development of an autonomous, AI-driven platform powering agents. You will oversee a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, shaping strategy and product direction for scalable, production-ready systems.

This role requires deep expertise in backend, APIs, cloud-native infra, and experience integrating LLMs, vector stores, and RAG pipelines.

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.
• 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 demonstrated background in data science methodologies including model development, evaluation, and deployment.
• Proven experience working with vector databases, semantic search, feature stores, and end-to-end data science pipelines in production environments.

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

Lead platform engineering

Data science leadership

AI/ML platforms

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Executive collaboration

Tools

LLM integrations

Vector databases

Job description

Teradata seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development of an autonomous, AI-driven platform powering agents. You will oversee a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, shaping strategy and product direction for scalable, production-ready systems.

This role requires deep expertise in backend, APIs, cloud-native infra, and experience integrating LLMs, vector stores, and RAG pipelines.