Engineering Lead, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Avathon Government; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Avathon is hiring an Engineering Lead for Product Lifecycle Management to own the technical delivery of PLM integrations and the AI capabilities built on top of them.

You will work alongside Forward Deployed Design Leads and customer engineering teams to connect PLM, CAD/PDM, ERP and MES to the Avathon platform, model product structures and engineering change flows in our Computational Knowledge Graph, and ship BOM comparison, change impact and digital thread features customers use every day.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's in CS, Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years software engineering, incl. 3+ years leading engineers.
• Hands-on PLM integration with at least one platform and its APIs.
• Strong Python backend and data pipelines experience.

Responsibilities

• PLM Integration Architecture: design connectors from PLM systems to Avathon platform.
• Knowledge Graph & AI: model product structures and changes in the knowledge graph.
• Delivery Leadership: lead discovery, build, go-live and hypercare on deployments.
• Collaborate with ML, data science, and customer teams to deliver reusable platform components.

Skills

Strong backend skills in Python

Experience leading engineers or tech/d

Clear technical writing and comms

REST APIs

Graph data models/graph databases

MBSE/digital thread concepts

Manufacturing/defense domain exposure

Customer-facing & travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

Teamcenter

Windchill

3DEXPERIENCE

SAP PLM

Oracle Agile

Job description

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.

Learn more at: avathon.com

We are hiring an Engineering Lead for Product Lifecycle Management to own the technical delivery of Avathon's PLM integrations and the AI capabilities built on top of them. You will work alongside our Forward Deployed Design Leads and customer engineering teams to connect PLM, CAD/PDM, ERP and MES systems to the Avathon platform, model product structures and engineering change flows in our Computational Knowledge Graph, and ship the BOM comparison, change impact and digital thread features customers use every day. This is a hands-on lead role. You will write code, own the integration architecture, and lead a small team of engineers through implementation, go-live and hypercare.

Responsibilities:

PLM Integration Architecture

• Own the technical design for integrating customer PLM systems (Teamcenter, Windchill, 3DEXPERIENCE, SAP PLM, Oracle Agile) with the Avathon platform
• Build and maintain connectors and data pipelines from PLM, CAD/PDM, ERP and MES sources into our Bronze/Silver/Gold data lake
• Define canonical data models for parts, EBOM and MBOM structures, variants, effectivity and engineering changes
• Set standards for data quality, sync latency and reconciliation between source systems and the platform

Knowledge Graph and AI Features- Model product structures and change relationships (ECR, ECO, MCA, MBOM, BOP) in the Computational Knowledge Graph so any change can be traced to its downstream impact

• Build the backend services behind BOM comparison, engineering change impact and clear-to-build views
• Work with our ML, data science and agent teams to apply Normal Behavior Models and AI agents to PLM data, such as flagging unusual ECR patterns or change-driven supply risk
• Turn one-off customer work into reusable platform components

Delivery and Technical Leadership

• Hands on lead to through discovery, build, go-live and hypercare on customer deployments
• Run technical working sessions with customer PLM, IT and engineering teams and act as the senior technical contact on the account
• Own go-live readiness: integration testing, data validation, performance and security review
• Review designs and code, set engineering practices, and mentor engineers on the PLM domain
• Partner with design, product and customer success to scope work, call out risk early and keep delivery on plan

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineers or technical delivery
• Hands-on integration experience with at least one enterprise PLM platform (Teamcenter, Windchill, 3DEXPERIENCE, SAP PLM or Oracle Agile), including its APIs and data model
• Strong working knowledge of BOM management, engineering change management, variants and effectivity
• Experience integrating PLM with ERP, CAD/PDM, MES and quality systems
• Strong backend skills in Python with experience building data pipelines and REST APIs
• Experience with graph data models or graph databases is a strong plus
• Familiarity with digital thread concepts; MBSE exposure (SysML, Cameo, Rhapsody) is a plus
• Experience in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace or defense environments
• Comfortable working directly with customers and traveling to customer sites
• Clear technical writing and communication

Salary Range: $160,000-$220,000

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.