Avathon
Associate AI Engineer, Physical AI
Pleasanton, California, United States · Full-time
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About the role
- You will work on hard technical problems spanning agentic AI, machine learning, reasoning, knowledge graphs, multimodal AI, time-series intelligence, optimization, and autonomous decision-making.
- Take AI from research to production: Turn promising algorithms, models, and prototypes into reliable, scalable AI systems capable of operating against large and complex real-world datasets
- Engineer for the real world: Solve challenges involving scale, latency, reliability, model performance, explainability, and deployment where AI outputs can influence real operational decisions
Responsibilities
- As an Associate AI Engineer, you will join Avathon's AI Engineering team and work alongside AI researchers, applied scientists, and engineers to build the intelligence behind our Physical AI platform.
- Build physical AI: Develop intelligent systems that can understand complex operating environments, reason over real-world context, predict what happens next, and determine what actions should be taken
- Advance machine intelligence: Build models and algorithms across prediction, anomaly detection, forecasting, classification, optimization, recommendation, and decision intelligence
- Build knowledge & reasoning systems: Work with Avathon's computational knowledge graph to give AI an understanding of relationships across assets, processes, materials, suppliers, operations, and complex industrial systems
- Develop autonomous decision systems: Help move AI beyond prediction toward reasoning, prescription, optimization, planning, and increasingly autonomous action
- Own real problems early: Work alongside Product and Forward Engineering teams on difficult customer and platform problems, with meaningful technical ownership from the start of your career
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science from a leading computer science and engineering university
- Strong academic achievement, with a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.6 or higher required
- No prior full-time professional experience required
- Strong programming ability, particularly in Python, with the ability to write high-quality, maintainable software
- Familiarity with modern AI/ML frameworks and a demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new models, tools, and technical concepts
Skills
- High-Growth Environment -- Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility, collaboration, and rapid professional growth are the norm.
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- What You'll Work On
- Build physical AI:
Compensation
- $110,000 - $130,000 USD (based on experience)
Benefits
- Equity in the form of stock options
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous PTO and company holidays
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Explore multimodal AI: Apply LLMs, vision models, time-series models, retrieval, and multimodal techniques across sensor signals, documents, images, video, engineering information, and enterprise data
Company info
- We are looking for exceptional new computer science graduates who are builders at heart, writing software, conducting research, building ambitious projects, or pushing technology beyond what they've learned in the classroom.
Equal opportunity
- Avathon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us to discuss how we can assist you.
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