Senior Manager, AI Platform & Autonomous Agents

Teradata Group; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata in San Diego seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development of a next-generation platform powering autonomous AI-driven agents. You will shape strategy and drive delivery across data science and engineering teams.

You will oversee a multidisciplinary team, collaborate with AI research and product teams, and ensure the platform is performant, extensible, and production-ready for enterprise workloads.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software/platform engineering or data science.
• 3+ years in engineering management or technical leadership 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 model deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering and data science roadmap for the AI Platform, ensuring architectural scalability, reliability, and integration with LLMs and data pipelines.
• Partner with product, data science, research, and engineering to define requirements for predictive modeling, memory, planning, and multi-agent collaboration.
• 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 real-world agent execution at scale.
• Guide the team in best practices for 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 technical excellence through code and design reviews, reliability practices, and cross-functional collaboration.

Job description

Teradata in San Diego seeks a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development of a next-generation platform powering autonomous AI-driven agents. You will shape strategy and drive delivery across data science and engineering teams.

You will oversee a multidisciplinary team, collaborate with AI research and product teams, and ensure the platform is performant, extensible, and production-ready for enterprise workloads.