Staff AI Engineer at Teradata
Nashville, TN
$169,400–$254,100from the description
Jul 2, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on architecting and scaling enterprise AI platforms, including agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, vector search, and LLM-based systems. The position involves setting technical direction across multiple teams, building production-grade platform services and APIs, and mentoring senior engineers. It suits an experienced distributed-systems engineer with hands-on AI/ML platform background.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 21 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 30,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 18,300–45,800
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting lists three salary figures (169,400 / 211,700 / 254,100 annually), likely representing low/mid/high bands; the min and max of that range are captured here.
The title is 'Senior Staff AI Engineer.' Teradata appears to use 'Senior Staff' as a distinct level above Staff; the role's scope — org-wide architectural authority, mentoring Staff engineers, influencing multi-team roadmaps — supports a Staff classification rather than Senior.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent practical experience,' so no hard degree gate is set.
Java, Go, and Python are listed together as interchangeable proficiency options under the required qualifications; Java is used as the primary with Go and Python as alternatives.
LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, AI orchestration, agentic AI patterns, cloud environments, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and observability all appear under the 'What You'll Bring' section, which is framed as preferred/additive rather than as hard gates.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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