AI Scientist, Platform

Job overview

The AI Scientist, Platform role is onsite in Pleasanton, CA, with an annual salary range of $160,000–$240,000. The role is based at Avathon's Pleasanton office five days a week and supports Product Engineering and platform engineering. The role exists to build shared AI capabilities that improve Avathon's industrial AI platform and its applications. It takes research into production-ready models, knowledge graph methods, and agents so product teams can reuse these capabilities across customer applications.

What you'll do

• Improve normal behavior models and anomaly detection for time series and event data
• develop data quality and gap-filling methods
• evaluate and adapt time-series and multimodal foundation models
• build ontology discovery, entity resolution, and data-mapping methods for the knowledge graph
• build and evaluate AI agents with guardrails and human approval
• design evaluation frameworks
• work with the Model Hub team on serving, monitoring, retraining, and cost
• package reusable platform services
• communicate methods and results to product teams, customers, and leadership.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

ai scientist

platform

avathon

pleasanton ca

industrial ai

machine learning

time series

anomaly detection

knowledge graphs

ai agents

python

$160k–$240k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires a PhD in a relevant field or an MS with 5+ years of relevant industry experience; strong Python and ML-stack skills and experience shipping models to production. The role is not remote.

About the employer

Avathon is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.