Technical Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering

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 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 Role Overview The Technical Architect is the senior technical authority embedded within Avathon's Forward Deployed Engineering team — the person who translates complex customer environments into scalable, production-grade AI architectures and then owns their delivery. You sit at the intersection of deep platform expertise and industrial domain knowledge, architecting how Avathon's Computational Knowledge Graph, Model Hub, Agent Foundry, and Visual AI (VAIA) capabilities fit into each customer's existing OT/IT landscape and workflow reality. This is an implementation role, not a pre-sales role. Where the Solutions Architect maps the possibility, the Technical Architect builds the system. You define integration strategy, design agentic AI workflows, govern solution quality, and hold technical accountability from kickoff through production handoff — working Monday through Thursday at client sites alongside FDE engineers, customer IT and OT teams, and plant operations. You own the hardest architectural decisions across multi-customer engagements and feed those patterns back into Avathon's delivery playbooks and platform evolution. Key Responsibilities Solution Architecture & Workflow Design • Own end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise AI deployments — designing how Avathon's platform capabilities (CKG, Model Hub, Agent Foundry, VAIA) map to each customer's operational workflows, data environment, and business objectives • Architect and configure Avathon's Computational Knowledge Graph for each customer environment — defining data models, constraint representations, ontology mappings, and the decisioning topology that unifies siloed operational systems (SCADA, ERP, CMMS, PLM, historians) • Design generative and agentic AI workflow orchestration on Avathon's Agent Foundry — defining agent roles, tool integrations, escalation logic, and human-in-the-loop decision points aligned to each customer's operational processes • Architect Visual AI (VAIA) deployments for customers requiring computer vision and multi-modal AI — scoping camera infrastructure, model selection, inference pipeline design, and integration with existing asset monitoring systems • Evaluate and prescribe integration patterns for industrial data sources — SCADA, OPC-UA/DA, MQTT, process historians (OSIsoft PI, Aspen IP.21, Honeywell Uniformance), ERP, CMMS — ensuring reliable, low-latency data flow into Avathon's AI pipeline • Develop reference architectures and reusable design patterns from each engagement that reduce delivery risk and accelerate future implementations across similar environments Technical Leadership & Governance • Serve as the senior technical authority across FDE engagements — reviewing solution designs, setting engineering standards, and resolving architectural conflicts before they reach the client • Define and enforce technical quality standards: data schema conventions, API contracts, security posture, scalability thresholds, model versioning, and disaster recovery requirements • Partner with Avathon's core engineering and data science teams to ensure customer deployment architectures align with platform roadmap and long-term maintainability • Identify and mitigate technical risk early — surfacing integration gaps, data quality issues, infrastructure constraints, and model performance risks before they impact delivery timelines • Mentor Forward Deployed AI Engineers on architectural best practices, system design patterns, and production engineering standards — raising the technical bar of the FDE pr