Staff AI Engineer

• *Our Company:**

• *What You'll Do: Shape the Way the World Understands Data**

Teradata is building the next generation of AI\-native analytics, enabling customers to deploy production\-grade Generative AI systems directly where enterprise data lives. We are looking for a Staff AI Engineer to play a key role in designing and building the LLM, agent and ModelOps capabilities of Teradata’s cloud and SaaS platform, taking them from prototype to secure, observable, multi\-tenant production services.

This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of LLMs, agentic systems and cloud\-native engineering, and wants to work on core platform capabilities, not just application demos.

You will

• Own the architecture and technical direction of Teradata’s agentic AI platform, delivered as a secure, multi\-tenant, cloud\-native SaaS service.
• Design and build **agent runtimes and harnesses**: tool calling, planning, memory, context management, multi\-agent orchestration, sandboxed execution and human\-in\-the\-loop controls.
• Design, build and secure **MCP servers and clients**, and other agent and tool protocols, that expose Teradata capabilities to agents through governed, well\-documented APIs.
• Integrate and serve **LLMs**, both hosted APIs and self\-hosted open\-weight models: model gateway, routing, caching, fallbacks, token budgets, latency and cost control.
• Build **ModelOps / LLMOps** pipelines: model, prompt and agent registries and versioning, CI/CD with evaluation gates, canary releases and rollback, and quality and drift monitoring.
• Build evaluation and observability frameworks for LLM and agent systems: offline evals, LLM\-as\-judge, tracing, regression suites, and quality, safety, latency and cost metrics.
• Implement AI guardrails and responsible\-AI controls: prompt\-injection defense, PII handling, permissions, policy enforcement and audit trails for regulated industries.
• Run AI services as SaaS on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud: tenant isolation, authentication and authorization, quotas, usage metering, SLOs, and production and on\-call readiness.
• Drive scalability, performance, reliability and cost efficiency of AI workloads, using Kubernetes and infrastructure\-as\-code.
• Where use cases call for it, apply RAG, vector search and semantic retrieval patterns, including Teradata’s vector store.
• Lead technical design reviews and influence cross\-team architectural decisions; identify risks early and drive solutions.
• Collaborate with product, research and platform teams to turn customer use cases into scalable features, and benchmark against cloud and open\-source alternatives.

• *Who You'll Work With: Join Forces with the Best**

You’ll collaborate with a world\-class team of AI architects, ML engineers and domain experts **across India and Silicon Valley**, working together to build the next generation of enterprise AI systems.

You’ll also work cross\-functionally with

• Product managers and UX designers to craft agentic workflows that are intuitive and impactful.
• Domain specialists to ensure solutions fit real business problems in regulated industries.
• Cloud, SaaS and infrastructure teams responsible for deploying, evaluating and scaling AI workloads.

This is a rare opportunity to shape foundational AI capabilities within a global, data\-driven company. This is a deeply collaborative environment where technical innovation meets real\-world application, where your ideas are not only heard but implemented to shape the next generation of data interaction.

• *Minimum Requirements**

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related field.
• 8\+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of complex production systems, and 2\+ years building LLM\-based applications or platforms in production.
• Strong cloud engineering on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud: Kubernetes and containers, infrastructure\-as\-code (for example Terraform), and CI/CD.
• Experience building and operating SaaS services: multi\-tenancy, API design, authentication and authorization (OAuth/OIDC), observability, SLOs and reliability engineering.
• Hands\-on LLM experience: prompt and context engineering, function and tool calling, structured outputs, and working with both commercial and open\-weight models.
• Experience designing agentic systems: planning, memory, orchestration and custom agent harnesses, plus familiarity with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain or equivalent.
• Experience with **ModelOps / LLMOps**: deploying, versioning, evaluating and monitoring models, prompts and agents in production.
• Working knowledge of methods for evaluating LLM and agent quality, safety, latency and cost.
• Proficiency in **Python** (and/or Java or Go), with experience shipping production\-grade systems.
• Experience with large\-scale data and performance\-sensitive distributed systems.

• *Preferred Qualifications**

• Experience with LLM inference and serving optimization (for example vLLM or Triton, quantization, GPU scheduling).
• Experience with fine\-tuning and post\-training of open\-weight models (for example LoRA, preference optimization, distillation).
• Experience implementing **AI guardrails**, red\-teaming and security controls for agents, such as prompt\-injection defense.
• Familiarity with agent\-to\-agent protocols and tracing standards such as A2A and OpenTelemetry for GenAI.
• Experience with analytics platforms, data warehouses and SQL\-based workloads.

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