Engineering Lead, Platform

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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.

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We are hiring an Engineering Lead to build the core of the Avathon platform. You will lead the team responsible for the layers every application runs on: data ingestion and connectors for IT and OT systems the landing zone and data lake the ontology and Computational Knowledge Graph and the services that let models and AI agents work on that data. The platform has to run as multi-tenant SaaS in customer clouds and on air-gapped edge sites and it has to make new customer deployments faster not slower. This is a hands-on lead role in Product Engineering. You will write code own the architecture and lead a team of engineers.

Data and Ingestion

• Own the architecture for data ingestion including Avathon Data Ingest (ADI) at the edge and reusable connectors for OT protocols (OPC-UA DNP3 MQTT historians) and IT systems (SAP Oracle and others)
• Build the landing zone and Bronze/Silver/Gold processing that turns raw data into clean governed data
• Set standards for data quality freshness lineage and access control across the platform

Ontology and Knowledge Graph

• Own the services that map raw data into the ontology and Computational Knowledge Graph
• Make the graph fast and reliable at industrial scale and give applications clean APIs to query it
• Work with the Model Hub and agent teams so models and AI agents can read from and act on the graph safely

Team Leadership

• Lead and grow a team of platform engineers; set priorities review designs and code and mentor
• Partner with the Platform product manager on roadmap scope and release planning
• Work with cloud operations and security on multi-tenant single-tenant on-premise and edge deployments
• Own quality performance and reliability of platform services

• 8 years of software engineering experience including 3 years leading engineers
• Built data or AI platforms used by other teams ideally at Palantir C3 AI Databricks Snowflake Cognite or a hyperscaler data or AI team
• Strong backend and distributed systems skills in Python Java Go or Scala
• Experience with data pipelines streaming (Kafka or similar) lakehouse architectures and large-scale storage
• Experience with ontologies knowledge graphs or graph databases is a strong plus
• Experience with industrial data (OPC-UA historians SCADA) or edge deployments is a strong plus
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (GCP AWS or Azure)
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field

Compensation

Pay Range: $160000-$220000 salary annually. Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience.

Location: This role is not remote. Candidates must be based in the Bay Area CA and are expected to report to our Pleasanton office 5 days a week.

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.