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title: 'Staff Software Development Test Engineer at Tekion'
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# Staff Software Development Test Engineer at Tekion

- **Company:** Tekion
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tekion/910777e9-6ecb-44cf-b511-15bbfca86a67

## Job description

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. About the Role :

We are looking for a highly motivated AI Software Development Engineer in Test to join Tekion’s AI Platform team. Our team builds the infrastructure and tooling that powers every AI capability at Tekion — model training and serving infrastructure, feature and data pipelines, model registry and deployment, LLM gateways, vector stores, and the observability that ML Engineers and Data Scientists build on top of.

In this role, you will be responsible for building confidence in the quality, reliability, correctness, and performance of the AI Platform itself. You will work closely with Platform and Infrastructure Engineers, ML Engineers, and Product Management to define robust validation strategies, automate testing across platform services and SDKs, and ensure the platform behaves correctlyand scales under the demands of a growing fleet of AI agents. As the platform expands to serve 100+ AI agents, you will help define quality and evaluation frameworks for platform-level AI services — validating model-serving correctness, feature integrity, and the reliability of the tooling teams depend on. You will also use AI and LLMs to accelerate test generation and automation across the platform.

What You’ll Do :

- Develop a deep understanding of Tekion’s AI Platform architecture, services, data/feature flows, and the ML lifecycle it supports.
- Own end-to-end quality for platform capabilities — feature pipelines, training and serving infrastructure, model registry, deployment pipelines, LLM gateways, and vector/data stores.
- Design and implement automated testing frameworks for platform APIs, SDKs, services, and infrastructure components.
- Validate the correctness, completeness, and consistency of features and model inputs/outputs as they move through the platform.
- Test model-serving and inference services for correctness, latency, throughput, scalability, and reliability under load.
- Build regression and reconciliation suites for large-scale platform changes, migrations, and version upgrades.
- Validate platform capabilities such as ingestion, feature computation, model deployment/rollback, multi-tenancy, and governance.
- Define quality metrics and SLO validation, with automated monitoring to detect platform anomalies before they impact ML teams or customers.
- Contribute to evaluation frameworks for platform-level AI services (e.g., serving correctness, feature integrity, eval-infrastructure reliability).
- Use AI/LLMs to accelerate quality engineering — generating tests, synthetic data, and automation scaffolding.
- Drive root cause analysis for production platform issues and partner with engineering teams on preventive improvements.
- Champion quality engineering and reliability best practices across the AI Platform organization.

## What We’re Looking For

- 8+ years in SDET, quality engineering, or software engineering, with strong experience building automation frameworks for platform, infrastructure, or backend services.
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Java/Go, with the ability to write productionquality automation and tooling.
- Experience testing distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, or ML/data platforms.
- Solid understanding of ML lifecycle components — feature stores, training/serving, model registry, deployment — or a strong platform-testing background with ML fluency.
- Experience with performance, load, and scalability testing.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Understanding of LLM/ML failure modes and evaluation concepts.
- Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills across service, data, and infrastructure layers.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with ML platform tools (MLflow, Feast, KServe/Seldon, Ray, Kubeflow, SageMaker/Vertex AI) or LLM infra (vLLM, model gateways, vector DBs such as Milvus/Pinecone).
- Experience with observability and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
- Experience testing multi-tenant, high-throughput SaaS platforms.
- Contributions to internal test frameworks or developer tooling.
- Exposure to chaos or reliability engineering

Current Tekion Employees: Please apply via the Internal Job Board in Ashby Note: Tekion recently transitioned to a new recruiting tool and we appreciate your patience and feedback as we adjust to our new system!

Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

For more information on our privacy practices, please refer to our Applicant Privacy Notice [here](https://tekion.com/legal/privacy/applicant-and-candidate-privacy-notice).

## About Tekion

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tekion provides an end-to-end, AI-native platform that unifies dealerships, OEMs, and partners for modern automotive retail.
- **Entity Type**: Private (growth stage; $200M growth equity raise in 2024 at a $4B+ valuation)
- **Headquarters**: Pleasanton, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Jay Vijayan (CEO) and Guru Sankararaman (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Automotive retail technology, cloud-based dealership management, vertical AI.
- **Target customers**: B2B – automotive dealerships (retail groups and independents) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
- **Mission**: To create a connected, convenient, and consistent consumer experience by unifying dealers, OEMs, and partners on a single AI-native platform.

## Products & Services
- **[Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC)](https://www.tekion.com/)**: AI-native operating system for dealerships covering sales, service, parts, accounting, and analytics. SaaS.
- **[Automotive Partner Cloud (APC)](https://www.tekion.com/)**: Next-gen platform for OEMs and partners to integrate and collaborate with the dealer ecosystem. SaaS.
- **[Tekion AI Agents](https://www.tekion.com/)**: Role-aware AI tools including Service Scheduler AI (automates booking), Technician AI (surfaces repairs), and Service Advisor AI (turns notes into customer-facing recommendations). Embedded in the platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $4B+ (as of the 2024 growth equity round) [[tekion.com/about-us](https://www.tekion.com/about-us)]
- **Key Metric**: 3,000+ dealerships powered by Tekion; 235M+ annual transactions processed.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: The specific lead investor for the $200M round is not publicly named in available materials. Key partners include General Motors (OEM), Ken Garff Automotive Group, and a Fortune 500 dealer group (largest in the country). [[tekion.com/about-us](https://www.tekion.com/about-us)]
- **Growth Signals**: Secured $200M in growth equity in 2024; crossed 1,100 ARC dealers in 2024; launched Service AI in 2025; earned recognition from Goldman Sachs Builders & Innovators (2022–2025), Forbes Cloud 100 (2023), and Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators (2025).

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native, unified platform**: Unlike legacy point solutions, Tekion is built on a single data foundation, enabling real-time context across sales, service, accounting, and analytics.
- **Vertical AI specialty**: Purpose-built for automotive with ISO 42001 certification (responsible AI) and trained on dealership/OEM data.
- **High adoption & trust**: Customer approval rate for AI recommendations is 95%, and dealers report additional revenue generated from AI in 2025.
- **OEM certifications**: Certified with all major OEMs.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding agentic AI capabilities (Service AI launched 2025) to further automate dealership workflows.
- Deepening enterprise partnerships with large dealer groups and OEMs globally.
- Continuing to scale the platform to more dealers and markets worldwide.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Recognized as a Great Place To Work® (2026–2027) and Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators (2025). Values include "One Team," collaboration, and continuous learning. [[tekion.com/careers](https://tekion.com/careers)]
- **Work flexibility**: Primarily in-person culture at Pleasanton HQ, but some fully remote positions exist in US, Canada, and EMEA. India offices (Bangalore, Chennai) are onsite with flex days. Roles are marked as remote/hybrid/onsite in job listings.
- **Perks**: 100% employer-paid medical/dental/vision, unlimited PTO (varies by role), stock options, flexible time off, wellness programs, recognition culture.
- **Growth & learning**: Tek-Learn program with Udemy, Frontend Masters, skill workshops, AMAs, and fireside chats.
- **Engineering culture**: AI-native, startup environment focused on disrupting automotive retail; described as "Silicon Valley Startup Environment" with a global team.

## Sources
1. [tekion.com](https://www.tekion.com/) – Product overview, platform details, metrics
2. [tekion.com/about-us](https://www.tekion.com/about-us) – Company history, leadership, funding, awards, partnerships
3. [tekion.com/careers](https://tekion.com/careers) – Culture, benefits, work policy, values
4. [linkedin.com/company/tekion](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tekion) – Entity summary and recent updates
5. [tekion.com/job-openings](https://tekion.com/job-openings) – Current job listings (via careers page)

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