Senior AI Scientist – Planning
AI summary of the role
Design and develop AI and optimization models for Avathon's planning intelligence platform, covering demand forecasting, supply planning, inventory optimization, and S&OP decision support for industrial customers.
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What you’ll do
- Build demand forecasting models across industrial verticals using probabilistic, hierarchical, and intermittent demand methods
- Design supply planning and inventory optimization models across multi-echelon networks with capacity constraints and variable lead times
- Formulate and solve optimization problems (MIP, LP, constraint programming) for production scheduling, allocation, and resource planning
- Build simulation and scenario analysis frameworks to support S&OP and integrated business planning workflows
What you’ll bring
- Ph.D. or master’s degree in operations research, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or related quantitative field
- 10-15 years of industry experience in applied ML, optimization, or Supply Chain planning systems
- Deep experience in at least two of: demand forecasting, supply/inventory optimization, production scheduling, or S&OP analytics
- Proficiency in Python with hands-on experience in optimization solvers (Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools, or similar) or forecasting libraries (Prophet, statsmodels, GluonTS, or similar)
Technologies
Gurobi · CPLEX · OR-Tools · Prophet · statsmodels · GluonTS · AWS SageMaker · GCP Vertex · Python · MIP
About Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)
Avathon builds AI for industrial asset performance, renewable energy, and defense/autonomy use cases.
Private Late · 200–500 people
Source and classification
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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. Learn more at: avathon.com About the Role As a Senior AI Scientist – Planning, you will design and develop the AI and optimization models that power Avathon's planning intelligence - demand forecasting, supply planning, inventory optimization, and S&OP decision support for customers across energy, mining, manufacturing, and logistics. This role sits at the intersection of AI, ML and operations research. You will build models that work with complex supply chain data - demand history, ERP/MRP transactions, and commercial forecasts across multi-echelon networks with long lead times and constrained
More from the job description
Who We Are & Why Join Us 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. 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. Learn more at: avathon.com About the Role As a Senior AI Scientist – Planning, you will design and develop the AI and optimization models that power Avathon's planning intelligence - demand forecasting, supply [... source excerpt omitted ...] y optimization, and S&OP decision support for customers across energy, mining, manufacturing, and logistics. This role sits at the intersection of AI, ML and operations research. You will build models that work with complex supply chain data - demand history, ERP/MRP transactions, and commercial forecasts across multi-echelon networks with long lead times and constrained capacity. The work is equal parts applied research and production delivery. You will develop novel approaches where standard methods fall short and ship them into a platform used by enterprise customers. You will report into the Data Science org and work closely with product and engineering. You Will Build dem [... source excerpt omitted ...] ptimization models across multi-echelon networks with capacity constraints and variable lead times Formulate and solve optimization problems (MIP, LP, constraint programming) for production scheduling, allocation, and resource planning Build simulation and scenario analysis frameworks to support S&OP and integrated business planning workflows Define evaluation metrics, build backtesting pipelines, and run controlled experiments to measure and improve model performance Integrate cross-domain signals from Avathon's Computational Knowledge Graph -- asset health, logistics, procurement - into planning models Own the path from research to production in collaboration with ML Enginee
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