Senior Software Engineer
Core
Design and build production-grade AI platform services including LLM gateways, MCP servers, and agent orchestration frameworks for the automotive retail ecosystem.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (AI Platform & Agentic AI)
Builds
AI gateway, MCP infrastructure, and agentic AI workflows for Tekion's Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC), Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC), and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC).
Domain
Automotive retail technology, Cloud-native AI, Large Language Models (LLM)
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Java, Microservices, RDBMS, NoSQL, LLM fundamentals, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Agentic AI patterns, Cloud-native architecture, Performance optimization
Preferred skills
AI gateway architecture, Agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI), LLM observability, AI safety and guardrails
Technologies
Java, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS, ELK stack, Spring Boot, Kafka, LangSmith, OpenTelemetry
Responsibilities
Design and implement AI gateway with intelligent routing and cost optimization; Build MCP infrastructure for tool orchestration; Develop multi-step reasoning workflows and human-in-the-loop escalation paths; Solve complex performance bottlenecks in inference and orchestration layers; Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities