4 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical vision and architecture for Tekion’s AI Native Platform.
- Architect and build a highly available, multi-provider AI gateway and LLM abstraction layer.
- Lead the design of the MCP ecosystem, including tool governance, authentication, trust models, and integrations with multi-agent frameworks.
- Design and implement agentic AI frameworks, including planning, reasoning, tool orchestration, guardrails, safety layers, and human-in-the-loop escalation.
- Drive platform reliability, observability, AI governance, and responsible AI practices.
- Own platform architecture decisions through successful production delivery.
- Mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and promote code quality and engineering excellence.
- Collaborate with product, AI/ML research, and domain engineering teams on the AI platform roadmap.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a relevant field.
- 9+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
- Strong Java and object-oriented development skills, with experience building and scaling microservices.
- Experience developing enterprise-system backends and working with large-scale distributed systems and cloud technologies.
- Experience with MongoDB, MySQL, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring Boot, and Kafka.
- Strong debugging, performance optimization, troubleshooting, technical leadership, communication, and ownership skills.
- Deep expertise in LLM systems, including model selection and evaluation, token economics, and context-window optimization.
- Strong knowledge of MCP, tool-use standards, AI gateways, LLM infrastructure, agentic AI architectures, and multi-agent systems.
- Experience with LLM observability, MLOps, AI safety, governance, and responsible AI patterns.
- Ability to deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced startup environment.
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About Tekion
Tekion builds an AI-native, cloud platform for automotive retail that unifies dealers, OEMs, and partners. Its products include Automotive Retail Cloud (a dealership management system for retailers), Automotive Enterprise Cloud for manufacturers, and Automotive Partner Cloud for integrations, delivered as subscription software. Privately held and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Tekion raised private equity funding in 2024.