Engineering Lead, Transportation & Logistics
Avathon · Pleasanton, California, United States
About this role
**Engineering Lead, Transportation & Logistics — Avathon** **About Avathon** Avathon is the leading Industrial AI autonomy platform, helping customers across heavy industries—energy, mining, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, and logistics—accelerate autonomous operations. Our platform is built on a Computational Knowledge Graph foundation that contextualizes and connects operational data across siloed systems, powering AI-driven applications in asset performance management, supply chain intelligence, visual AI, and global trade management. **Role Summary** We’re hiring an **Engineering Lead** to build and run the **Logistics and Transportation** product on the Avathon platform. You’ll lead a team that brings **shipment, carrier, and TMS data** into the platform, **predicts delays**, **traces impact on production**, and enables **AI agents to manage exceptions**. This is a **hands-on lead** role in Product Engineering: you’ll write code, own architecture, and lead engineers. --- ## What You’ll Do **Architecture & Build** - Own the technical architecture for logistics services: shipment/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 to 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 delays can be traced to production orders and parts affected - Partner 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/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** software engineering experience, including **3+ years** leading engineers - Experience building transportation/logistics/visibility software (ideally with vendors 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 - Cloud experience (**GCP or AWS**); geospatial data and graph data models are a plus - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field --- ## Compensation & Location - **Pay Range:** **$160,000–$220,000** salary annually (based on factors including location and experience) - **Location:** **Not remote** — must be based in the **Bay Area, CA** and report to the **Pleasanton office 5 days/week** --- *Avathon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process.*
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