Engineering Lead, Transportation & Logistics

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

Job summary

Avathon is hiring an Engineering Lead to design and operate the Logistics and Transportation product within the Avathon platform. You will guide the team that ingests shipment, carrier, and TMS data, develops ETA and exception workflows, and enables AI-driven decision making.

This is a hands-on leadership role with coding, architecture ownership, and team mentorship. The role demands 8+ years of software engineering, 3+ years leading engineers, and strong backend skills in Python/Java/Go, with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years leading engineers.
• Experience with transportation/logistics software is a plus.
• Experience building APIs and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture for logistics services (shipment/events, ETA, workflows).
• Build/maintain integrations with TMS platforms and APIs; streaming pipelines.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers; collaborate on roadmap and releases.

Skills

Backend development

Event streaming

Cloud platforms

API integrations

Data modeling

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Kafka

Pub/Sub

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 to build and run the Logistics and Transportation product on the Avathon platform. You will lead the team that brings shipment, carrier and TMS data into the platform, predicts delays, traces their impact on production, and lets AI agents manage exceptions. The hard problems are messy data from many carriers and systems, near real-time event processing, and linking a late truck to the work orders it affects. This is a hands-on lead role in Product Engineering. You will write code, own the architecture, and lead a team of engineers.

You Will

Architecture and Build

• Own the technical architecture for logistics services: shipment and event models, ETA services, exception workflows and routing
• Build and maintain integrations with TMS platforms, carrier and 3PL APIs, EDI feeds and visibility providers
• Build streaming pipelines that process shipment events in near real time and keep shipment state accurate
• Productionize ETA, anomaly detection and routing models built with our AI scientists

Platform Integration

• Model shipments, lanes, carriers and orders in the Computational Knowledge Graph so a delay can be traced to the production orders and parts it affects
• Work with the agent team on exception management: detect, prioritize, recommend and route to the right team
• Turn customer-specific integrations into reusable connectors and product components

Team Leadership

• Lead and grow a team of engineers; set priorities, review designs and code, and mentor
• Partner with the Logistics product manager on roadmap, scope and release planning
• Own quality, performance and reliability for logistics services in production
• Work with forward deployed teams on customer go-lives and escalations

You’ll Have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineers
• Built transportation, logistics or visibility software, ideally at a vendor such as Oracle (OTM), Blue Yonder, Manhattan Associates, e2open, project44, FourKites, Descartes, Flexport or Samsara
• Strong backend skills in Python, Java, Go or similar, with experience building APIs and integrations
• Experience with event streaming and real-time data (Kafka, Pub/Sub or similar)
• Working knowledge of EDI, carrier APIs, TMS data models and freight operations
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS); geospatial data and graph data models are a plus
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

Compensation

Pay Range: $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.

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.