# AI Scientist, Platform Pleasanton, California, United States at SparkCognition

- Company: SparkCognition
- What the company does: Physical AI for industrial operations. One knowledge graph of your assets, processes, people, and locations, with agents that return the plan rather than the alert.
- Company website: https://avathon.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $160K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://avathon.com/company/careers/ai-scientist-platform-4745071005/?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sparkcognition-ai-scientist-platform-pleasanton-california-united-states/

## About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 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


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