Technical Architect, Forward Deployed Engineering

Job overview

The Technical Architect, Forward Deployed Engineering role is onsite in Walnut Creek, CA, with work Monday through Thursday at client sites. Compensation is not specified. Avathon develops an industrial AI autonomy platform for customers in heavy industries. As the senior technical authority embedded in the Forward Deployed Engineering team, this architect turns customer environments and workflows into production-grade AI system designs and owns delivery through production handoff. The role also establishes reusable patterns, technical standards, and deployment practices that support future customer implementations.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end architecture for enterprise AI deployments
• configure the Computational Knowledge Graph and design agentic AI workflows and Visual AI deployments
• evaluate integration patterns for industrial data sources
• develop reusable reference architectures
• review designs and set engineering standards
• define technical quality requirements
• partner with core engineering and data science
• identify and mitigate technical risks
• mentor Forward Deployed AI Engineers
• define AI evaluation frameworks and production observability
• establish security and cloud infrastructure architecture
• lead technical discovery and architecture workshops
• advise customer stakeholders
• capture learnings for delivery playbooks.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

technical architect

forward deployed engineering

walnut creek ca

avathon

industrial ai

enterprise ai

solution architecture

agentic ai

computational knowledge graph

visual ai

ot/it integration

production deployments

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Implementation role, not pre-sales. Client-site work Monday through Thursday. Qualifications include 8+ years in software engineering, systems architecture, or technical delivery, including at least 3 years in a lead architect or principal engineer role.

About the employer

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