Senior NLP Architect for Enterprise AI

Teradata; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life and disability insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Time-off programs

Job summary

Teradata seeks a Principal NLP Engineer to own the design, development, and deployment of advanced NLP technologies powering semantic graphs, context analysis, and enterprise copilots for Teradata Context Engine.

This hands-on technical leadership role requires mastery of classical NLP and modern transformer architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, multimodal understanding, and large-scale language model systems.

Qualifications

• PhD or MS in Computer Science, AI, ML, NLP or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years in production NLP and ML systems.
• Recognized industry leader in NLP, language AI, search, retrieval, or LLM-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategic roadmap for NLP across the Knowledge Platform.
• Serve as technical authority for large-scale NLP architecture, algorithms and deployment.
• Drive innovation in enterprise language understanding, semantic search, retrieval systems and knowledge extraction.
• Lead architecture for enterprise copilots, AI agents, and autonomous workflows.
• Mentor senior engineers and establish NLP engineering best practices.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow/JAX

Spark

Distributed computing

NLP engineering

Knowledge graphs

Education

PhD or MS in CS/AI/ML/NLP

Tools

Hugging Face ecosystem

Fine-tuning/adaptation

Large-scale model evaluation

Vector databases

Job description

Teradata seeks a Principal NLP Engineer to own the design, development, and deployment of advanced NLP technologies powering semantic graphs, context analysis, and enterprise copilots for Teradata Context Engine.

This hands-on technical leadership role requires mastery of classical NLP and modern transformer architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, multimodal understanding, and large-scale language model systems.