Senior Manager, Artificial Intelligence Engineering

Teradata Group; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata in the United States is seeking a Senior Manager – AI Platform to lead the evolution of our next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents. You will oversee a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, define the product and data science strategy, and ensure the platform is scalable, performant, and production-ready.

You will partner with product, research, and engineering to shape capabilities such as memory, planning, multi-agent coordination, and tool

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software/platform engineering or data science.
• 3+ years in engineering management or technical leadership overseeing AI initiatives.
• Proven experience building and scaling distributed systems or cloud platforms in production.
• Strong background in backend development, APIs, infrastructure, or platform architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms, LLM integrations, and data science pipelines.
• Experience with vector databases, semantic search, and feature stores in production.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the AI Platform engineering and data science roadmap.
• Collaborate with product, data science, research, and engineering to define capabilities for memory, planning, multi-agent coordination, and tool orchestration.
• Drive 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 at scale.
• Guide 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 of agentic workflows powered by data science and ML across the organization.

Skills

Leading platform engineering teams

Data science leadership

Backend APIs

Cloud-native infrastructure

AI/ML platforms

Data science pipelines

Tools

LLM integrations

Vector databases

Semantic search

Feature stores

Job description

Our company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach. Teradata delivers real business value with AI.

What You’ll Do

We are looking for aSenior Manager – AI Platform to lead the development and evolution of our next-generation platform powering autonomous, AI-driven agents. This role is ideal for a leader who combinesdata science expertise and technical depth,agentic platform thinking, andstrategic executionto scale a distributed system that enables reasoning, planning, memory, and tool use at runtime.

As the Senior Manager, you will be responsible for driving product and data science strategy, overseeing a multidisciplinary team of engineers and data scientists, collaborating with AI/ML research and product teams, and ensuring that the AI Platform is performant, extensible, and production-ready.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the engineering and data science roadmapfor 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.

What makes you a qualified candidate

• 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.
• Strong project management skills, with a track record of delivering large cross‑functional initiatives.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with executive stakeholders, researchers, and engineers.
• Passion for building platforms that enable intelligent, autonomous behavior at scale.

What you'll bring

• A strong track record ofleading platform engineering and data science teamsthat build scalable, reliable systems supporting internal and external developers or AI/ML workloads.
• Deep understanding ofsoftware architecture, distributed systems, and cloud‑native infrastructure — with the ability to make strategic technical decisions.
• Experience working at the intersection ofAI, data science, and engineering, ideally supporting LLM-based products, AI agents, or data science platforms that deliver measurable business value.
• A pragmatic approach to balancingtechnical depth with delivery speed, especially in fast‑paced, R&D‑heavy environments.
• Demonstrated ability tohire, mentor, and retainhigh‑performing engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, experimentation, and accountability.
• Strong cross‑functional collaboration skills — able to partner effectively with product managers, researchers, infrastructure teams, and executive stakeholders.
• Curiosity and drive topush the boundaries of autonomous, data‑science‑powered software, and a clear vision for how data science and agentic AI systems will shape the next generation of enterprise applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences.

Why We Think You'll Love Teradata

We prioritize a people‑first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well‑being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are committedto actively workingto foster an inclusive environment that celebrates peoplefor all of who they are.

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