Avathon
Engineering Lead, Platform
Pleasanton, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- High-Growth Environment -- Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility, collaboration, and rapid professional growth are the norm.
- 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.
- Avathon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Responsibilities
- Cutting-Edge AI Innovation -- Join a team at the forefront of AI, developing groundbreaking solutions that shape the future.
- Meaningful Impact -- Work on AI-driven projects that drive real change across industries and improve lives.
Requirements
- Candidates must be based in the Bay Area, CA and are expected to report to our Pleasanton office 5 days a week.
Compensation
- $160,000-$220,000 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.
Benefits
- 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.
Company info
- 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
- 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
- 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
Equal opportunity
- If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us to discuss how we can assist you.
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