Senior Staff AI Platform Architect

Teradata; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to design, evolve, and scale enterprise AI platforms. You will own architecture decisions, influence platform strategy, and lead cross-team initiatives spanning agentic AI, RAG, vector stores, and developer-facing AI systems.

You will work with product and architecture leadership, mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across teams while delivering secure, scalable AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience building backend services, distributed systems, or data/AI platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Go, or Python, with experience building large-scale services.
• Deep understanding of distributed system design, scalability, fault tolerance, and cloud native architectures.
• Proven experience designing and operating production systems with SQL and NoSQL data stores.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and evolution of large-scale distributed AI systems powering Teradata’s AI platform and products.
• Own end-to-end architecture for AI capabilities such as agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, vector search, and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Drive technical strategy and architectural consistency across multiple engineering teams.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Teradata is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to design, evolve, and scale enterprise AI platforms. You will own architecture decisions, influence platform strategy, and lead cross-team initiatives spanning agentic AI, RAG, vector stores, and developer-facing AI systems.

You will work with product and architecture leadership, mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across teams while delivering secure, scalable AI solutions.