Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.

What you will do

We are seeking a Technology Researcher to evaluate emerging hardware and infrastructure technologies, conduct focused research spikes and proof-of-concepts, and identify optimization opportunities for our database and cloud platforms. You will collaborate with product engineering teams to advance innovations from research to production, leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate your work.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging technologies in compute hardware, storage, networking, GPUs, DPUs, and accelerators for potential platform integration
• Evaluate technologies such as eBPF, DASK and other communication protocols that all for distributed and heterogeneous system designs
• Design and execute targeted research spikes and proof-of-concept projects to validate technology value and measure performance impact
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to scope, test, benchmark, and document technology enhancements
• Research industry trends, academic innovations, and partner technologies to identify optimization opportunities
• Build business cases and present technology recommendations through innovation reviews
• Leverage AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate prototyping and development cycles

Who you will work with

On our team, you will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic group of professionals in Office of the CTO, Product Engineering, Product Management, Sales and other key departments. You will play a crucial role in helping Teradata better understand our customers’ needs through dedicated technology research, proof-of-concepts and defining next generation infrastructure choices for our product portfolio. This position will report to the Engineering Fellow of Partner Technology Research and will reside within the Office of the CTO.

What makes you a qualified candidate

Technical Skills:

• Distributed systems engineering background with multi-node architecture experience
• CUDA X and NVIDIA GPU ecosystem experience
• rocM/HIP and AMD GPU ecosystem experience
• eBPF, DASK or Arrow experience
• HPC or distributed application development background
• Public cloud platform proficiency
• Foundational database systems knowledge (Teradata experience a plus)
• Backend software development or infrastructure engineering experience
• Scripting/automation capabilities (Python, Bash, or similar)
• Comfortable with modern AI-assisted coding tools and platforms

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science (distributed systems focus), Computer Engineering, or IT with equivalent professional progression
• 2-3+ years in backend development, systems engineering, or infrastructure engineering
• DevOps or infrastructure automation experience

What you will bring

• Confident and resilient; comfortable navigating technical disagreements and feedback
• Strong influencer with ability to persuade without direct authority or control of resources
• Excellent communicator who articulates technical concepts and business value clearly
• Collaborative, self-motivated, and intellectually curious
• Thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving technology environments

Why We Think You'll Love Teradata 

We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are committed to actively working to foster an inclusive environment that celebrates people for all of who they are. 

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