Job Description: Senior Manager AI Engineering
Our Company:
At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.
What you will do:
We are looking for a
Senior Manager – Agentic 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 combines
technical depth
,
platform thinking
, and
strategic execution
to 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 direction, overseeing a team of engineers, collaborating with AI/ML research and product teams, and ensuring that the Agentic Platform is performant, extensible, and production-ready.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead the engineering roadmap for the Agentic Platform, ensuring architectural scalability, reliability, and seamless integration with LLMs and orchestration frameworks.
- Partner with product, research, and engineering teams to define requirements for capabilities such as 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 context management.
- Oversee integrations with third-party tools, internal services, and infrastructure platforms to enable real-world agent execution 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 and 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 will operate at scale across the organization.
What makes you a qualified candidate:
- 8+ years of experience in software/platform engineering, with 3+ years in engineering management or technical leadership roles.
- Proven experience building and scaling distributed systems or cloud platforms in production environments.
- Strong technical background in backend development, APIs, infrastructure, or platform architecture.
- Familiarity with AI/ML platforms, LLM integrations, or autonomous agent frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, etc. ) is highly desirable.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and microservices.
- Experience working with vector databases, semantic search, or data pipelines is a plus.
- 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 will bring:
- A strong track record of leading platform engineering teams that build scalable, reliable systems supporting internal and external developers or AI/ML workloads.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure — with the ability to make strategic technical decisions.
- Experience working at the intersection of AI and engineering, ideally supporting LLM-based products or intelligent automation platforms.
- A pragmatic approach to balancing technical depth with delivery speed, especially in fast-paced, R&D-heavy environments.
- Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, and retain high-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 to push the boundaries of autonomous software, and a vision for how agentic systems will shape the next generation of 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 an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.
Teradata invites all identities and backgrounds in the workplace. We work with deliberation and intent to ensure we are cultivating collaboration and inclusivity across our global organization. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, or any other legally protected status.