Research Engineer - UI

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’ll Do

The Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) generates and prototypes new research ideas in applied AI, advanced analytics, and emerging product concepts that leverage next-generation technologies. We seek a Research Engineer to transform prototype concepts into production-ready solutions that service and product organizations can confidently deploy to customers.

This role sits at the intersection of AI research and operational excellence, requiring both technical depth and collaborative leadership to guide research innovations toward customer value. You will work with cutting-edge AI research outputs and ensure they transition smoothly into robust, scalable, and maintainable systems.

Design Intuitive User Experiences

• Translate research concepts and product requirements into intuitive, user-centered interface designs that serve Teradata’s enterprise customers
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups that align with Teradata’s design system and brand standards across web and mobile surfaces
• Conduct usability testing and iterate on designs based on user feedback, behavioral data, and accessibility standards

Build Scalable UI Components

• Design and implement reusable UI component libraries that enable product teams to ship consistently and efficiently across platforms
• Contribute to the frontend API layer to ensure clean, performant contracts between UI components and backend services
• Integrate design workflows with engineering teams using modern tooling to create efficient, repeatable design-to-production handoff processes

Establish Design Quality Standards

• Define and enforce UX/UI best practices, accessibility standards (WCAG), and design documentation guidelines across research outputs
• Conduct thorough design reviews and usability analyses to ensure interfaces meet enterprise-grade user experience standards
• Build the design systems and frameworks that enable consistent translation of research prototypes into polished, production-ready interfaces

Bridge Research and Delivery

• Collaborate with research teams to understand user needs and translate emerging AI capabilities into compelling, accessible interfaces
• Communicate design decisions, interaction patterns, and UX rationale clearly across multidisciplinary teams

Who You’ll Work With

You will work with product and service organizations to ensure user experience is central to every customer-ready solution

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

Technical Skills

• Strong practical skills in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, Next.js) and experience designing or consuming APIs that serve frontend applications
• Solid instincts around reliability, observability, and performance—and proven ability to operationalize those instincts in production systems
• A track record of building developer tools or shared infrastructure that measurably improves engineering productivity
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments and work closely with cross-functional partners
• Willingness to pick up slack and take ownership beyond the immediate scope of the role

Required Experience

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent building shared platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure that other engineers rely on
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrated care for developer experience with a proven ability to make engineering teams more productive through tooling and platform investments
• Strong communication skills and experience partnering across multidisciplinary engineering and product teams

What You’ll Bring

• Experience building shared component libraries
• Familiarity with BFF (backend-for-frontend) architectures and API patterns that balance flexibility with consistency across client platforms
• Performance optimization and latency reduction experience in consumer-facing applications
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and deployment automation
• Background in observability and monitoring (metrics, logging, tracing)
• Prior work on AI/ML products or in rapidly evolving product environments
• Active contribution to open-source projects or a publicly available portfolio demonstrating substantial platform or infrastructure engineering work

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 committedto actively workingto foster an inclusive environment that celebrates peoplefor all of who they are.

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