AI Engineer

Our Company:

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach. Teradata delivers real business value with AI.

OUR TEAM

This position sits within the Data Intelligence Platform team, a group focused on building next-generation AI-assisted data services on top of Autonomous Knowledge Platform. Our team operates at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and applied AI — shipping highly available, multi-tenant services that power intelligent query routing and data discovery at scale.

Our platform responsibilities include:

• Designing and operating highly available microservices for data catalog ingestion and serving
• Building AI-assisted query generation and routing services across heterogeneous data sources
• Deployment and lifecycle management of services on Kubernetes (K8s) across AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Data pipeline development for catalog extraction, normalization, and semantic enrichment
• Centralized observability: monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing for all platform services
• Providing DevOps tooling and CICD pipelines to support continuous delivery

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are building a new service to collect and normalize data catalogs from diverse data sources — including relational databases, data lakes, data warehouses, and streaming systems — and expose them to an AI agent that dynamically constructs and routes queries to the appropriate source. This is a greenfield initiative that requires strong engineering judgment, a systems-thinking mindset, and experience shipping production-grade services.

You will be a core contributor on this project, working from architecture to implementation — designing ingestion pipelines, building the catalog API layer, and collaborating with the AI/ML team to surface the right metadata signals for intelligent query generation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate a highly available data catalog collection service that ingests schema and metadata from heterogeneous data sources (RDBMS, data lakes, streaming platforms, APIs)
• Develop robust data pipelines for catalog extraction, normalization, lineage tracking, and semantic tagging to power AI-driven query routing
• Build and maintain RESTful and/or gRPC APIs that expose catalog data to an AI query agent
• Deploy and manage services on Kubernetes (K8s), including helm chart authoring, autoscaling configuration, and multi-cluster operations
• Ensure service reliability through SLO definition, circuit breakers, retry logic, and distributed tracing
• Integrate with open-source and cloud-native technologies including Apache Kafka, Spark, dbt, Apache Atlas, or OpenMetadata
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to design and iterate on the metadata schema and query routing interface
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident response, postmortems, and reliability improvements
• Contribute to CICD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform / Helm), and automated testing frameworks

Qualifications

Required

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production services
• Proficiency in one or more of: Go, Rust, Java or Python-- with a preference for Rust or Python for backend services
• Hands-on experience with data pipeline development: ingestion, transformation, and metadata management at scale
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles and service-to-service communication patterns
• Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes (K8s) in production cloud environments
• Familiarity with at least one major public cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP