Senior AI Scientist – Planning

Job overview

The Senior AI Scientist – Planning role is onsite in Pleasanton, CA, five days a week. The annual salary range is $160,000–$240,000. Avathon develops an industrial AI autonomy platform for customers across heavy industries. The scientist develops planning intelligence models for demand forecasting, supply planning, inventory optimization, and sales and operations planning decision support. The role connects applied research with production delivery, working with product, engineering, and data science colleagues to deliver scalable models for enterprise customers.

What you'll do

• Build demand forecasting models
• design supply-planning and inventory-optimization models
• formulate and solve optimization problems for production scheduling, allocation, and resource planning
• build simulation and scenario-analysis frameworks
• define evaluation metrics and backtesting pipelines
• integrate signals from the Computational Knowledge Graph
• take models from research to production with ML Engineering
• mentor junior data scientists.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior ai scientist

planning

pleasanton ca

onsite

$160k–$240k/year

demand forecasting

supply planning

inventory optimization

operations research

machine learning

production models

avathon

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Stock option grants
• medical coverage
• parental leave plans
• 401(k) with employer match
• monthly technology allowance.

Why this role

The role combines AI, machine learning, and operations research, with responsibility for moving research into monitored production services.

About the employer

Avathon is hiring for this role. Industry: All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. Sector: 54.