Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Tekion is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and operate the production backbone that takes models from Applied Sciences and delivers reliable, low-latency ML services across Tekion's DMS, CRM, Digital Retail, Service, Payments, and enterprise products.

Requirements

• 8-10 years in ML engineering/MLOps or backend/platform engineering with production ML
• Experience with LLMs, retrieval systems, vector stores, and graph/knowledge stores
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: Python plus one of Java/Go/Scala; API design; concurrency; testing
• Hands-on with orchestration frameworks and libraries (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Function Calling, AgentKit, etc.)
• Knowledge of agent architectures (reactive, planning, retrieval-augmented agents), and safe execution patterns
• Pipelines and data: Airflow/Kubeflow or similar; Spark/Flink; Kafka/Kinesis; strong data quality practices
• Microservices and runtime: Docker/Kubernetes, service meshes, REST/gRPC; performance and reliability engineering
• Model ops: experiment tracking, registries (e.g., MLflow), feature stores, A/B and shadow testing, drift detection
• Observability: OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana; debugging latency, tail behavior, and memory/CPU hotspots
• Cloud: AWS preferred (IAM, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, Step Functions/Lambda), with cost optimization experience
• Security/compliance: secrets management, RBAC/ABAC, PII handling, auditability

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Retirement plan