Teradata is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to play a key role in designing and building Teradata’s vector store and retrieval infrastructure, powering RAG, multimodal AI, agentic workflows, and semantic search at enterprise scale.

Company: Teradata

Role: Senior AI Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India (Hybrid, Full-time)

Experience:

3+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend systems
Hands-on experience with vector databases or vector search systems
Practical experience building LLM-powered applications, especially RAG systems
Experience working with large-scale data and performance-sensitive systems

Key Skills:

Python
Java
vector databases
vector search systems
LLM-powered applications
RAG systems
embeddings
similarity search
data chunking
context optimization
dense vs sparse vs hybrid retrieval
semantic search
relevance ranking

Qualification:

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related field

Role Focus:

Design and implement vector store capabilities integrated with Teradata’s analytics platform
Build end-to-end RAG pipelines
Develop and optimize semantic search algorithms and ranking strategies for enterprise workloads
Enable multimodal RAG (text, structured data, images, etc.) and agent-based workflows
Design agentic AI patterns
Implement guardrails for safety, reliability, and governance
Build and maintain RAG evaluation frameworks
Collaborate with product, research, and platform teams to translate customer use cases into scalable features
Benchmark Teradata’s vector store and RAG capabilities against industry alternatives

Nice to have:

Experience with multimodal embeddings and retrieval
Familiarity with agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent)
Experience implementing AI guardrails and evaluation frameworks
Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Experience with distributed systems or analytics platforms

Other:

Flexible work model
People-first culture
Well-being focused
Anti-racist company
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion commitment
Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer

Senior AI Engineer

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