Avathon
Associate AI Engineer, Physical AI
$110K–$130K
Pleasanton, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- No prior full-time professional experience required.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science; graduating in 2027. The posting specifies no equivalent-experience alternative.
About the job
Build and productionize AI systems for Avathon’s Physical AI platform, including agents, machine-learning models, knowledge and reasoning systems, and autonomous decision tools for industrial operations.
What you'll do
- Develop and evaluate AI agents and machine-learning models for reasoning, prediction, optimization, and decision-making.
- Build knowledge-graph, multimodal, and autonomous systems that use operational data to understand industrial environments.
- Prototype AI techniques and turn promising research and models into reliable, scalable production systems.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science; graduating in 2027.
- Cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.6 or higher.
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, software engineering, probability, statistics, linear algebra, and computer science fundamentals.
- Strong programming ability, particularly in Python, and understanding of machine learning and modern AI fundamentals.
Nice to have
- Experience or demonstrated interest in LLMs, deep learning, agentic AI, computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning, optimization, knowledge graphs, robotics, or autonomous systems.
- Evidence of building beyond the classroom through research, projects, open-source contributions, hackathons, competitive programming, startups, or other engineering work.
Pay
$110,000 – $130,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, LLMs
AI focus
Develop agentic, multimodal, and machine-learning systems for physical-world understanding, industrial reasoning, prediction, optimization, and increasingly autonomous action.
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