Engineering Manager (SCM Planning) Product Engineering

Who We Are & Why Join Us

Avathon is the leading Industrial AI autonomy platform helping customers across heavy industries -- energy mining manufacturing aerospace defense and logistics -- accelerate the journey toward autonomous operations. Our platform is built on a Computational Knowledge Graph foundation that contextualizes and connects operational data across siloed systems bringing together time series structured unstructured and machine vision data to power AI-driven applications in asset performance management supply chain intelligence visual AI and global trade management. With capabilities spanning digital twins normal behavior modeling natural language processing and computer vision Avathon delivers real-time predictive intelligence and agentic decision-making at industrial scale.

Cutting-Edge AI Innovation -- Join a team at the forefront of AI developing groundbreaking solutions that shape the future. High-Growth Environment -- Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility collaboration and rapid professional growth are the norm. Meaningful Impact -- Work on AI-driven projects that drive real change across industries and improve lives.

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Engineering Manager SCM Planning

Work Location: Bangalore

Five Days onsite

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager SCM Planning at Avathon you will lead the design and delivery of scalable data infrastructure and AI platforms powering industrial intelligence solutions in the areas of demand forecasting supply planning inventory & Manufacturing and S&OP decision support for customers across energy mining manufacturing and logistics.

You will drive cloud-native architectures production-grade data pipelines and AI-ready systems that enable advanced analytics and Generative AI applications. Partnering with Engineering Product and Applied Science teams you will translate complex industrial challenges into secure scalable technology solutions while shaping Avathons platform engineering strategy. With 8 years of experience including team leadership you will build and grow a high-performing engineering team across onshore and offshore locations.

You Will

• Build and lead an engineering team responsible for Avathons data and AI platform infrastructure
• Architect scalable industrial data platforms capable of handling high-velocity IoT and telemetry streams
• Design resilient real-time and batch data pipelines that power predictive maintenance anomaly detection and optimization use cases
• Establish MLOps frameworks to support continuous model training deployment and monitoring
• Partner with AI/ML Product and Service Engineering teams to deliver production-ready solutions to customers
• Ensure seamless production handoffs with strong documentation observability and SLAs
• Drive cloud infrastructure DevOps best practices and security compliance standards
• Scale engineering processes for multi-customer deployments in regulated and government environments

Youll Have

• 8 years of experience in software engineering data engineering or AI platform engineering
• 2 years leading technical teams (onshore offshore preferred)
• Experience designing cloud-native data architectures across AWS GCP or Azure
• Strong experience with:
• Distributed data processing (Spark Databricks)
• Streaming technologies (Kafka Kinesis IoT Core)
• Workflow orchestration (Airflow Dagster Prefect)
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)
• Experience building and operating production MLOps systems including CI/CD for ML model registry experiment tracking and drift detection
• Strong programming expertise in Python and Django
• Familiarity with React frontend development
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Travis CI Jenkins)
• Experience working with large-scale time-series or industrial telemetry data
• Solid understanding of system reliability fault tolerance and high-availability architectures
• Experience managing projects with customer-facing delivery components
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in SCM Planning industrial AI manufacturing energy utilities or government sectors
• Exposure to edge computing architectures and data ingestion from industrial systems (OPC UA Modbus Ignition PI Historian)
• Experience working with secure or regulated cloud environments including on-prem and air-gapped deployments
• Familiarity with data governance and compliance frameworks
• Understanding of predictive maintenance or asset performance use cases
• Experience with LLM observability and evaluation tooling in production environments

Knowledge of graph databases or knowledge graph platforms

Interview Process

As part of the interview process you will be asked to complete a technical case study assessment. Expect atleast two-three rounds of Technical interviewing rounds and one onsite round.

Avathon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age pregnancy genetic information disability status as a protected veteran or any other protected category under applicable federal state and local laws.

Avathon is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process. If you need a reasonable accommodation please contact us to discuss how we can assist you.