Senior AI Scientist, Planning

Job overview

The Senior AI Scientist, Planning role is hybrid, with the posting requiring five days per week at the Pleasanton office and candidates based in the Bay Area, CA. The stated annual salary range is $160,000–$240,000. Avathon develops an Industrial AI platform for autonomous operations across heavy industries. The scientist builds forecasting and optimization models for planning use cases and takes them from applied research into production with the Planning engineering team, supporting customer decisions across demand, supply, inventory, and sales and operations planning.

What you'll do

• Build demand and spare-parts forecasting models
• use causal, external, and knowledge-graph signals
• define evaluation metrics and backtesting
• develop supply planning and multi-echelon inventory optimization models
• formulate optimization problems for scheduling and resource planning
• build simulations and scenario analysis
• productize models with monitoring and retraining
• mentor data scientists and communicate methods and results.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

avathon

senior ai scientist

planning

bay area ca

pleasanton office

hybrid

$160k–$240k/year

demand forecasting

supply planning

inventory optimization

operations research

python

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Competitive pay and benefits
• bonus eligibility
• equity
• flexible time off
• year-round half-day Fridays
• hybrid work environment.

Why this role

Requires a PhD or MS in a related field and 10+ years of industry experience in applied machine learning, optimization, or supply chain planning systems. Hands-on Python and optimization solver experience required.

About the employer

Avathon is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.