Onsite APM Design Lead for Industrial AI

Avathon

Pleasanton (CA)

On-site

USD 130,000 - 155,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity in stock options

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) participation

Generous PTO and holidays

Travel expenses covered

Job summary

Avathon, a leading Industrial AI autonomy platform, seeks an experienced Forward Deployed Design Lead — APM. You will live at customer sites, configuring, implementing, and continuously improving Avathon’s Asset Performance Management deployments.

You will translate industrial workflows into configured APM solutions, design user screens, and drive adoption from go-live through steady-state operations. You will spend Monday through Thursday on plant floors and in client sessions, with remote

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in enterprise software implementation, industrial systems delivery, or a UX/design role embedded in client-facing delivery — with hands-on configuration and deployment ownership
Demonstrated APM domain knowledge: predictive maintenance workflows, condition monitoring, reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), FMEA, P-F interval, OEE, and asset criticality frameworks
Hands-on experience implementing or configuring enterprise asset management platforms: IBM Maximo, SAP EAM/PM, Oracle eAM, IFS, Infor EAM, Hexagon EAM, or similar
Familiarity with industrial data sources: historian systems (AVEVA PI, Aspen IP.21, Honeywell Uniformance), OPC-UA/MQTT, and IoT sensor integration in plant environments
Strong UX and design execution skills — able to produce annotated wireframes, dashboard layouts, and workflow diagrams that engineering teams can build directly from (Figma preferred)
Proven ability to facilitate discovery sessions and working meetings with mixed audiences of operators, engineers, and plant management — translating operational complexity into clear, actionable design decisions
Experience designing and delivering end‑user training programs for enterprise software in industrial or operational environments — including hands‑on floor training
Comfort with agile delivery rhythms: sprint planning, backlog grooming, and iterating rapidly based on user feedback in live client environments
Excellent written communication — able to produce configuration documentation, SOPs, and training guides that operators with varying technical backgrounds can follow independently

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end implementation of Avathon’s APM platform at client sites — configuring asset hierarchies, alert thresholds, health scoring models, and work order integration workflows to match each customer’s operational context
Lead functional configuration of APM modules: predictive maintenance rule sets, condition monitoring dashboards, asset criticality rankings, and maintenance strategy mappings aligned to client RCM frameworks
Set up and validate integrations between Avathon’s platform and client CMMS/EAM systems (SAP PM, IBM Maximo, IFS, Infor EAM) — ensuring work orders, notifications, and asset master data flow accurately
Configure data pipelines from historian systems (OSIsoft PI, Aspen, Honeywell) and IoT/SCADA sources — validating signal quality, tag mappings, and anomaly detection thresholds in live operational environments
Conduct go-live readiness assessments — verifying system configuration, user access, data completeness, and integration health before each deployment milestone
Lead onsite discovery sessions — interviewing reliability engineers, maintenance planners, and operations supervisors to map as-is workflows and define the future-state experience on Avathon’s platform
Produce implementation-grade design artifacts: annotated screen flows, configured dashboard layouts, alert routing rules, and role-based view specifications — directly actionable by the engineering team
Design and validate the end-user experience within Avathon’s APM product: asset hierarchy navigation, alert triage consoles, trend analysis views, and work order dispatch screens — optimized for control room and field environments
Facilitate working sessions with client stakeholders to validate designs against real operational scenarios — iterating in real time based on operator feedback before configuration is finalized
Ensure designs account for the physical realities of industrial use: screen size constraints, shift-change handoffs, noisy environments, and the cognitive load of operators managing hundreds of assets simultaneously