Autonomous Industrial AI Engineer

Avathon Government; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) participation

PTO and company holidays

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Avathon is seeking Forward Deployed AI Engineers to join our San Francisco Bay Area–anchored team. You will design, build, and deploy production-grade AI applications that run across real-world infrastructure, delivering continuous AI-enabled decisioning across thousands of nodes.

You will work directly with customers on the hardest operational problems in supply chains and energy systems. This role requires strong ML foundations, hands-on production experience, and the ability to translate

Qualifications

• Experience building AI/ML applications in production.
• Strong foundation in machine learning, optimization, and system design.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.
• Ability to reason about complex, interconnected systems (supply chains, networks, infrastructure).
• Ability to move from problem to architecture to deployment without handoffs.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of high-stakes deployments in operational environments.
• Design and implement Avathon’s Computational Knowledge Graph (CKG) that unify data, constraints, and decisioning, performing continuous computation across physical networks.
• Replace static planning workflows with real-time, autonomous execution applications.
• Work side‑by‑side with operators, planners, and key stakeholders to define problems and deliver solutions.
• Push systems into production that directly control and influence real‑world operations.
• Drive product evolution by feeding field learnings into Avathon’s core platform.

Skills

AI/ML in production

Machine learning

System design

Python

C++

TypeScript/JavaScript

Problem decomposition

Customer collaboration

Education

Master’s or Bachelor’s in STEM

Job description

Avathon is seeking Forward Deployed AI Engineers to join our San Francisco Bay Area–anchored team. You will design, build, and deploy production-grade AI applications that run across real-world infrastructure, delivering continuous AI-enabled decisioning across thousands of nodes.

You will work directly with customers on the hardest operational problems in supply chains and energy systems. This role requires strong ML foundations, hands-on production experience, and the ability to translate