Engineering Lead, Platform
Avathon · Pleasanton, California, United States
About this role
**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: http://avathon.com --- ## Engineering Lead, Platform We are hiring an **Engineering Lead** to build the core of the Avathon platform. You will lead the team responsible for the layers every application runs on: **data ingestion and connectors** for IT and OT systems, the **landing zone and data lake**, the **ontology and Computational Knowledge Graph**, and the **services** that let models and AI agents work on that data. The platform must run as **multi-tenant SaaS** (in customer clouds and on **air-gapped edge sites**) and make new customer deployments **faster, not slower**. 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 ### Data and Ingestion - 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 ### Ontology and Knowledge Graph - Own the services that map raw data into the ontology and Computational Knowledge Graph - Make the graph **fast and reliable** at industrial scale, and provide 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 ### Team Leadership - 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 --- ## You’ll Have - **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/AI team - Strong backend and distributed systems skills in **Python, Java, Go, or Scala** - Experience with **data pipe
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