AI Scientist, Platform
Pleasanton · Pleasanton, CA (HQ) · USD 160,000-240,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Pleasanton · Pleasanton, CA (HQ)
- Salary
- USD 160,000-240,000 / year
About the role
- Avathon is hiring an AI Scientist to build the shared AI capabilities of the Avathon platform.
- This role sits in Product Engineering, where you will improve core models like Normal Behavior Models, the Computational Knowledge Graph, Model Hub, and AI agents.
- You will work with platform engineering to take models from research to production.
Responsibilities
- Improve Normal Behavior Models and anomaly detection for time series and event data across industries
- Build methods for data quality and gap filling on messy industrial sensor and business data
- Evaluate and adapt time series and multimodal foundation models for industrial use
- Build methods for ontology discovery, entity resolution and mapping raw data into the knowledge graph
- Build and evaluate AI agents that query the graph, call models and recommend actions, with clear guardrails and human approval
- Design evaluation frameworks so we know when an agent or model is good enough to ship
- Work with the Model Hub team on model serving, monitoring, retraining and cost
- Package methods as reusable platform services that application teams can use without starting from scratch
- Write up methods and results clearly for product, customers and leadership
Requirements
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics or a related field, or an MS with 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Strong foundation in machine learning, with depth in at least two of: time series and anomaly detection, knowledge graphs and graph learning, LLMs and agents
- Experience building ML or AI capabilities used across many products or customers
- Strong Python and the standard ML stack (PyTorch, Hugging Face, LLM frameworks)
- Experience shipping models to production, not only notebooks
Preferred qualifications
- Experience at Palantir, C3 AI, Databricks, Google, AWS, Microsoft or an industrial AI company is a strong plus
- Publications or patents in related areas are a plus
Workplace
- This role is not remote
- Candidates must be based in the Bay Area, CA and are expected to report to the Pleasanton office 5 days a week
Skills
- Python
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face
- LLM Frameworks
