Principal AI Architect

As the Principal AI Architect for Teradata AI Studio, you will define the technical architecture of Teradata's end-to-end AI development environment — the platform where data scientists, ML engineers, and AI developers build, test, deploy, and monitor AI and agentic applications on top of Vantage. You will set the architectural direction for how AI Studio integrates with Teradata Vantage's query engine, model registry, feature store, and agent harness. You will establish the patterns for how enterprise customers build trustworthy AI workflows — from data preparation through model deployment to agent-driven automation — and ensure that AI Studio is the most capable, governed, and scalable AI development environment in the market.

Responsibilities

Define the technical architecture of Teradata's end-to-end AI development environment — the platform where data scientists, ML engineers, and AI developers build, test, deploy, and monitor AI and agentic applications on top of Vantage; Set the architectural direction for how AI Studio integrates with Teradata Vantage's query engine, model registry, feature store, and agent harness; Establish the patterns for how enterprise customers build trustworthy AI workflows — from data preparation through model deployment to agent-driven automation; Ensure that AI Studio is the most capable, governed, and scalable AI development environment in the market; Partner with the VP of Engineering for AI Platform, the Staff AI Engineers building AI Studio components, and the Product Management team to align architecture with product strategy; Engage with Teradata's Core Data Platform team, Security and Governance team, and key customers in design partner engagements

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a senior architect or principal engineer role with platform-wide technical scope; Demonstrated expertise designing AI/ML platforms or developer tools: model serving infrastructure, feature stores, experiment tracking, MLOps pipelines, or AI agent development environments; Deep understanding of LLM integration patterns: RAG architectures, fine-tuning pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and agent tool-calling interfaces; Experience with enterprise data platforms (Teradata Vantage, Snowflake, Databricks, or equivalent) at sufficient depth to architect against their APIs, security models, and performance characteristics; Experience building developer-facing platforms — SDKs, APIs, or IDEs — that external developers adopt and extend; Familiarity with open-source AI development tools: MLflow, Weights & Biases, Hugging Face, LangChain, LangGraph, or comparable; Understanding of enterprise AI governance requirements: model lineage, data access controls, audit logging, and responsible AI guardrails; Experience with cloud-native architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized ML workloads (Kubernetes, Docker); Strong cross-functional influence: you can drive alignment across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams without formal authority; A portfolio of architectural decisions — RFCs, design docs, or open-source work — that demonstrates your approach; A passion for how AI can unlock potential to help our teams, our customers, and our communities achieve great things

Benefits

People-first culture; Flexible work model; Well-being focus; Inclusive environment; Annual incentive plans; Health care; Life and disability insurance; Retirement savings; 401(k)-retirement savings plan; Time-off programs