Senior Staff AI Platform Architect

Teradata; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 200,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of our enterprise AI platforms. You will drive strategy for agentic AI, LLM pipelines, retrieval augmented generation, and vector stores, while partnering with product and architecture leadership.

You will own end-to-end design, mentor engineers across teams, and raise the bar on reliability, performance, and security in scalable AI systems, guiding multi-team initiatives and fostering innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of backend or AI platform experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Go, or Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed system design, scalability and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and evolution of large-scale distributed AI systems.
• Own end-to-end architecture for AI capabilities like RAG, vector search, and orchestration.
• Drive technical strategy and cross-team architectural consistency.
• Mentor Senior and Staff level engineers in architecture and reviews.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and operational excellence of AI platforms.

Skills

12+ years

Java

Go

Python

Distributed systems

SQL/NoSQL data stores

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Job description

Teradata is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of our enterprise AI platforms. You will drive strategy for agentic AI, LLM pipelines, retrieval augmented generation, and vector stores, while partnering with product and architecture leadership.

You will own end-to-end design, mentor engineers across teams, and raise the bar on reliability, performance, and security in scalable AI systems, guiding multi-team initiatives and fostering innovation.