AI Scientist, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Job overview

The AI Scientist, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) role is onsite in Pleasanton, CA, with a salary range of $160,000–$240,000 per year. The scientist works in Product Engineering with the PLM engineering team at Avathon, an industrial AI platform company serving heavy industries. The role builds and productizes models that help engineers understand parts, engineering changes, and technical documents. By connecting engineering data through a Computational Knowledge Graph and delivering models into production, the scientist supports more informed engineering and planning decisions.

What you'll do

• Build part similarity, classification, and substitution models using part attributes, BOM structure, and CAD metadata
• predict downstream engineering-change impacts
• extract structured data from drawings and documents using vision and language models
• apply graph learning for link prediction, entity resolution, and change impact
• build retrieval and LLM tools for plain-language search
• work with engineering to deploy, evaluate, and monitor models
• document methods and results.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

ai scientist

product lifecycle management

pleasanton ca

avathon

industrial ai

machine learning

graph learning

llms

computer vision

python

$160k–$240k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The posting requires a PhD or an MS with five or more years of relevant industry experience, strong machine-learning foundations, and experience applying ML to engineering or manufacturing data. The role is expected in the Pleasanton office five days a week.

About the employer

Avathon is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.