Associate AI Engineer, Physical AI
New-grad Associate AI Engineer at Avathon joins the AI Engineering team to build the intelligence behind its industrial Physical AI platform — working on agentic AI, machine learning, knowledge graphs, multimodal and time-series models, and autonomous decision systems — with core skills in Python, ML fundamentals, and CS theory. Onsite in Pleasanton, CA.
- Compensation
- $110K–$130K / yr
- Location
- Pleasanton, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Ai engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science from a leading CS/engineering university, graduating in 2027
- Cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.6 or higher
- Exceptional foundation in algorithms, data structures, software engineering, probability, statistics, linear algebra, and CS fundamentals
- Strong programming ability, particularly in Python, with ability to write high-quality, maintainable software
- Strong understanding of machine learning and modern AI fundamentals through coursework, research, internships, or projects
- Experience or demonstrated interest in LLMs, deep learning, agentic AI, computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning, optimization, knowledge graphs, robotics, or autonomous systems
- Familiarity with modern AI/ML frameworks and demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new models, tools, and concepts
- Evidence of building beyond the classroom via research, ambitious projects, open source, hackathons, competitive programming, or startups
- Intellectual curiosity about how AI can reason about the physical world
- High ownership and desire to work in an environment expecting technical ambition, speed, experimentation, and execution
Full description
Who We Are & Why Join UsAvathon is the leading Industrial AI autonomy platform, helping customers across heavy industries -- energy, mining, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, and logistics -- accelerate the journey toward autonomous operations. Our platform is built on a Computational Knowledge Graph foundation that contextualizes and connects operational data across siloed systems, bringing together time series, structured, unstructured, and machine vision data to power AI-driven applications in asset performance management, supply chain intelligence, visual AI, and global trade management. With capabilities spanning digital twins, normal behavior modeling, natural language processing, and computer vision, Avathon delivers real-time predictive intelligence and agentic decision-making at industrial scale.
Cutting-Edge AI Innovation -- Join a team at the forefront of AI, developing groundbreaking solutions that shape the future. High-Growth Environment -- Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility, collaboration, and rapid professional growth are the norm. Meaningful Impact -- Work on AI-driven projects that drive real change across industries and improve lives.
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The Opportunity
We are looking for exceptional new computer science graduates who are builders at heart, writing software, conducting research, building ambitious projects, or pushing technology beyond what they’ve learned in the classroom. As an Associate AI Engineer, you will join Avathon’s AI Engineering team and work alongside AI researchers, applied scientists, and engineers to build the intelligence behind our Physical AI platform. You will work on hard technical problems spanning agentic AI, machine learning, reasoning, knowledge graphs, multimodal AI, time-series intelligence, optimization, and autonomous decision-making.
What You'll Work On
· Build physical AI: Develop intelligent systems that can understand complex operating environments, reason over real-world context, predict what happens next, and determine what actions should be taken
· Build AI agents: Develop and evaluate agentic systems capable of reasoning, planning, using tools, interacting with enterprise and operational systems, and executing multi-step workflows
· Advance machine intelligence: Build models and algorithms across prediction, anomaly detection, forecasting, classification, optimization, recommendation, and decision intelligence
· Build knowledge & reasoning systems: Work with Avathon’s computational knowledge graph to give AI an understanding of relationships across assets, processes, materials, suppliers, operations, and complex industrial systems
· Explore multimodal AI: Apply LLMs, vision models, time-series models, retrieval, and multimodal techniques across sensor signals, documents, images, video, engineering information, and enterprise data