Forward Deployed Design Lead — Asset Performance Management
Embedded forward-deployed design lead who owns Avathon's Asset Performance Management deployments at industrial customer sites — configuring the platform (asset hierarchies, alerts, CMMS/EAM and historian integrations), designing operator-facing screens and workflows, and driving end-user adoption. Mon–Thu onsite at client plants, Fridays remote; core stack spans SAP PM/Maximo, PI historians, and
- Compensation
- $130K–$155K / yr
- Location
- Austin, Texas, United States; Pleasanton, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Design, or related technical field
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 80%; based in Pleasanton, CA or Austin, TX
- Authorized to work in the United States without current or future company sponsorship
Nice to have
- 5+ years in enterprise software implementation, industrial systems delivery, or client-embedded UX/design role with hands-on configuration ownership
- APM domain knowledge: predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, RCM, FMEA, P-F interval, OEE, asset criticality frameworks
- Hands-on experience implementing/configuring EAM platforms (IBM Maximo, SAP EAM/PM, Oracle eAM, IFS, Infor EAM, Hexagon EAM)
- Familiarity with industrial data sources: historians (AVEVA PI, Aspen IP.21, Honeywell Uniformance), OPC-UA/MQTT, IoT sensor integration
- Strong UX/design execution — annotated wireframes, dashboard layouts, workflow diagrams engineering can build from (Figma preferred)
- Ability to facilitate discovery sessions and working meetings with operators, engineers, and plant management
- Experience designing and delivering end-user training programs for enterprise software in industrial environments
- Comfort with agile delivery rhythms: sprint planning, backlog grooming, rapid iteration from user feedback
- Excellent written communication — configuration documentation, SOPs, training guides
- Experience working in or closely with industrial environments (power plants, manufacturing, refineries, mining)
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.
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About Avathon
Avathon 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.
About the Role
The Forward Deployed Design Lead — APM is embedded directly at customer sites as the primary experience and implementation owner for Avathon's Asset Performance Management deployments. You live at the intersection of industrial workflow knowledge and experience design, responsible for configuring, implementing, and continuously improving how operators, reliability engineers, and maintenance teams actually use Avathon's platform day to day.
You will spend Monday through Thursday on the plant floor, in control rooms, and in client working sessions — translating real operational workflows into configured APM solutions, designing the screens and interactions users will rely on in high-stakes environments, and driving adoption from go-live through steady-state operations. Fridays are typically remote for synthesis, documentation, and cross-team collaboration.