Lead AI Engineer

About Our Company

At Teradata, we empower individuals by providing trusted information. Our technology revolutionizes the way data and analytics challenges are approached, and we are looking for talented people like you to help us deliver innovative solutions.

Your Role

• Create agentic systems that drive Teradata's next generation of AI-powered analytics.
• Develop intelligent agents capable of reasoning over enterprise data, utilizing Vantage capabilities as tools, and completing complex analytical tasks independently.
• Design and build agent skills and plugins to enhance the Teradata agent framework.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to assess agent performance.
• Ensure the reliability and efficiency of agent workflows operating on Vantage.
• Deploy agents that effectively resolve real customer challenges, achieving benchmarks in accuracy, latency, and reliability that exceed competitors.

Collaboration

• Work as part of a dynamic team of AI engineers within Teradata's AI Apps, Analytics, and UX Engineering organization.
• Report to the Senior Manager of AI Engineering.
• Collaborate closely with Staff AI Engineers, the Agent Platform team, and Product Management.
• Utilize Teradata's premier data infrastructure while shaping the future of enterprise agents at scale.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years working with production-level agentic AI systems beyond RAG pipelines or chatbots.
• Practical experience implementing agent skills, plugins, or tools to enhance an agent framework.
• Strong proficiency in Python; experience with Go is an added bonus.
• Familiarity with agent planning processes, tool-calling standards, function-calling APIs, and reliability prompt engineering.

What You Bring

• Contributions to open-source agent frameworks or LLM tools.
• Experience in evaluating and benchmarking agent systems, including creating evaluation tests, gold datasets, and automated regression testing.
• Knowledge of Teradata Vantage, SQL query optimization, or equivalent competitive platforms.
• Understanding of vector databases, embedding models, and hybrid retrieval for managing agent memory and context.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• A passion for leveraging AI to unlock potential for teams, customers, and communities.

Why You Will Love Teradata

• Culture that puts people first.
• Flexible work model allowing choice of how, when, and where to work.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Compensation and Benefits

• Pay Rate: 143500.0000 - 179400.0000 - 215200.0000 Annually.
• Starting pay considers geographical location, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Eligibility for annual incentive plans linked to financial and individual performance.
• Comprehensive benefits program including healthcare, life and disability insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, and vacation programs.
• Detailed benefit information and eligibility criteria shared during hiring process.