Avathon
AI Scientist, Platform
$160K–$240K
Pleasanton, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- MS with 5+ years of relevant industry experience is stated as an alternative to a PhD.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or an MS with 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
About the job
Build and productize shared AI capabilities—including models, knowledge graph methods, and agents—for Avathon’s industrial AI platform.
What you'll do
- Improve normal behavior models, anomaly detection, data quality methods, and industrial foundation model applications.
- Develop knowledge graph methods and AI agents with guardrails, human approval, and evaluation frameworks.
- Collaborate on model serving and monitoring, package reusable platform services, and communicate methods and results.
What they ask for
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or an MS with 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Strong machine learning foundation with depth in at least two of time series and anomaly detection, knowledge graphs and graph learning, or LLMs and agents.
- Experience building ML or AI capabilities used across many products or customers.
- Strong Python and standard ML stack; experience shipping models to production.
Nice to have
- Experience at Palantir, C3 AI, Databricks, Google, AWS, Microsoft, or an industrial AI company.
- Publications or patents in related areas.
Pay
$160k - $240k USD base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, LLM frameworks
AI focus
Develop and improve industrial AI platform capabilities, including time-series and multimodal models, anomaly detection, knowledge graphs, and AI agents.
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