Senior Software Engineer - AI Platform
Core
Build and operate an AI-native automotive platform that turns dealership data into real-time intelligence for agents, LLM gateways, and classical ML models to drive dealer outcomes.
Role type
Senior IC AI Platform Engineer (LLM & Agentic Systems)
Builds
Tekion's Automotive Retail Cloud and Automotive Enterprise Cloud
Domain
Automotive retail technology, AI/ML, and cloud-native SaaS
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Python, Java/Scala/Go, distributed systems, microservices, MLOps, LLM gateway design, agentic systems orchestration, knowledge graphs, vector search, hybrid retrieval, model monitoring, data pipelines
Preferred skills
AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Neo4j, GraphQL, Spark/Flink/Kafka, MLflow, Airflow/Kubeflow, XGBoost/LightGBM, cost engineering, developer experience
Technologies
Python, Java, Scala, Go, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Neo4j, Neptune, TigerGraph, GraphQL, pgvector, Qdrant, Milvus, Airflow, Kubeflow, MLflow, Spark, Flink, Kafka, XGBoost, LightGBM
Responsibilities
Build LLM control plane/gateway with routing, rate limits, and cost tracking; ship unified APIs/SDKs with observability; enforce safety/privacy via content filtering and PII redaction; enable multi-vendor LLMs with canarying; own agent runtime including tool registry and function calling; design orchestration patterns and manage agent state; build pipelines for classical ML training/scoring; monitor model/data drift and manage retraining; implement human-in-the-loop review; evolve domain graphs and entity resolution; serve real-time context with access controls; power hybrid search retrieval; run continuous evaluations for quality and safety; define SLOs for latency, uptime, and cost; maintain model registry and audit trails; provide templates/CLIs and mentor teams on MLOps.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC