# Engineering Lead, Planning 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
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $160K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://avathon.com/company/careers/engineering-lead-planning-4745067005/?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sparkcognition-engineering-lead-planning-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

- Own the technical architecture for Planning services: data models, plan generation, scenario and what-if runs, plan versioning and reconciliation
- Build the pipelines that bring orders, inventory, BOM, production schedule and shipment data from ERP, MES, PLM and TMS sources into the planning model
- Productionize forecasting and optimization models built with our AI scientists, including solver integration, scheduling of plan runs and monitoring
- Design for scale: large multi-level BOMs, many SKUs and sites, and plans that refresh in minutes, not overnight
- Model planning entities and their relationships in the Computational Knowledge Graph so a supply issue can be traced to the orders and production it affects
- Work with the agent team to let AI agents explain plans, flag exceptions and recommend actions


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