Senior Manager, AI Platform & Autonomous Agents

Teradata Corporation (SE); Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development of our next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents. This role blends data science expertise with technical depth and strategic execution to scale a distributed system capable of reasoning, memory, and tool use at runtime.

You will drive product and data science strategy, supervise engineers and data scientists, and collaborate with AI/ML research and product teams to ensure the platform is

Qualifications

• 12+ years 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.

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

Platform leadership

Distributed systems

AI/ML platforms

Cloud-native

Tools

APIs

Vector databases

LLMs integrations

RAG pipelines

Job description

Teradata Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development of our next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents. This role blends data science expertise with technical depth and strategic execution to scale a distributed system capable of reasoning, memory, and tool use at runtime.

You will drive product and data science strategy, supervise engineers and data scientists, and collaborate with AI/ML research and product teams to ensure the platform is