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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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