Tekion
Automotive
SeniorSoftwareEngineer(MachinelearningPlatformEngineering)
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“Senior Software Engineer (Machine learning Platform Engineering ) at Tekion. Skills: MLOps, LLM, Agentic systems, Graph retrieval. Operationalize graph-based contextual ecosystem. Build resilient control layer”
What You'll Achieve.
Drive measurable dealer outcomes; Ship AI features quickly; Ship AI features safely; Ship AI features at scale; Maintain accuracy and relevance; Enable safe, cost-efficient LLM usage; Support compliances
Industry & Context.
Systems thinking
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
software engineering fundamentals, Abstracted API design, concurrency, distributed systems, Production experience with Python, microservices, API design, MLOps at scale, pipelines, tracking, registry, CI/CD for models, A testing, shadow/canary, online feature computation, Cloud, containers, Docker, Kubernetes, performance, reliability, cost engineering, multi-tenant SaaS, Practical ML knowledge, feature engineering, training, evaluation, drift detection, deploying models, user-facing workflows, LLM gateway/control plane, provider adapters, routing/policies, caching, quota/rate-limit, cost and token accounting, Agentic systems, tool use/function calling, orchestration frameworks, human-in-the-loop, safety/guardrails, online evaluation/telemetry, Graph, retrieval, knowledge graphs, GraphQL, vector search, hybrid retrieval patterns
Nice to Have
AWS, Java/Scala/Go, Airflow/Kubeflow, MLflow, Spark/Flink/Kafka, Neo4j/Neptune/TigerGraph, pgvector/Qdrant/Milvus, Platform-as-product, Cost-aware builder, Vendor-agnostic thinker
What You'll Do.
Operationalize graph-based contextual ecosystem
Build resilient control layer
Define standards for building agents
Build platform for classical ML models
Standardize experiment tracking
Create components to monitor drift
Add human-in-the-loop review
Build reliable data ingestion pipelines
Serve real-time context to agents
Power retrieval with hybrid search
Run continuous evaluations
Maintain model/agent registry
Provide templates/CLIs
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with product teams; Uplevel teams
Full Job Description
About Tekion: Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe. Why This Role Matters This role powers Tekion’s AI‑native, end‑to‑end automotive platform by turning unified dealership data across DMS, CRM, Digital Retail, Service, and Payments into real‑time intelligence. You’ll operationalize a graph‑based contextual ecosystem so agents can retrieve the right context, enforce policy, and personalize experiences that drive measurable dealer outcomes. You’ll also build the resilient control layer - MCP and the LLM Gateway - that enables safe, cost‑efficient, multi‑provider LLM usage. Finally, you’ll define the standards for building, evaluating, deploying, and governing agentic systems so product teams can ship AI features quickly, safely, and at scale. In addition to enabling agentic systems powered by LLMs, this role also drives building the platform for classical ML models driving optimization across dealership operations. What Makes This Opportunity Unique This role offers direct, measurable impact on dealer outcomes and consumer experiences across Tekion’s Automotive Retail Cloud and Automotive Enterprise Cloud, with
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