Role Summary:

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. Our Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC), Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC), and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) connect OEMs, retailers, and consumers through one seamless platform. Utilizing cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI, Tekion is transforming the automotive retail ecosystem. We're inventing recent technology along the way to overcome barriers and solve big problems, all while having a blast doing it with offices in North America, Asia, and Europe, Tekion employs around 3,000 people worldwide.

Role Summary:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager or Senior Engineering Manager who leads from the codebase, not just from meetings. You will take ownership of an existing AI team of engineers and
grow it to 5–8 while remaining a core hands-on contributor — writing production code, owning critical
architecture decisions, and setting the technical bar through your own work.



Your two missions:
embedding AI/ML capabilities across Tekion’s products, and building applied GenAI and agentic
systems that transform dealership workflows.

Key Responsibilities:
Architecture & Technical Leadership

Design the end-to-end AI architecture for Tekion’s platform: model serving, data pipelines, LLM
orchestration layers, and integration patterns with existing microservices.
Make build-vs-buy and model selection decisions (open-source vs. API-based, RAG vs. fine-
tuning, agentic vs. deterministic) and own the tradeoffs.
Write production code in critical-path areas — you are the technical anchor of the team, not a reviewer-only manager.
Conduct deep code reviews and architecture reviews; raise the engineering bar by example,not just by mandate.
Own technical debt prioritization and system reliability for AI components in production.

Applied GenAI & Agentic Systems

Build LLM

📌 Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tekion
📍 Bengaluru