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.

Job Introduction

We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to be the highest-level AI technical authority on the team.



This role is above the Applied Scientist level — you set the AI research and engineering direction, own the agentic system architecture, define the eval framework standards, and operate as the primary interface to the external AI research community and internal platform AI leadership. You will combine deep research rigor with relentless production focus: every AI capability you design ships, gets measured, and improves based on evidence.

You are the person who answers: "Is this AI approach the right one, and how do we know when it's working"

Key Role & Responsibilities
- Own the agentic system architecture: define the multi-agent coordination patterns, MCP tool taxonomy, intent-to-skill routing logic, policy enforcement design, and memory management strategy across all AI workflows on the platform.
- Lead the AI evaluation framework: design the golden dataset structure, define eval metrics (RAG retrieval quality, scoring accuracy, LLM

📌 Principal, Applied Science (Chennai)
🏢 Tekion
📍 Chennai