# Engineering Lead, 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
- 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-platform-4745082005/?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sparkcognition-engineering-lead-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

- Own the architecture for data ingestion, including Avathon Data Ingest (ADI) at the edge and reusable connectors for OT protocols (OPC-UA, DNP3, MQTT, historians) and IT systems (SAP, Oracle and others)
- Build the landing zone and Bronze/Silver/Gold processing that turns raw data into clean, governed data
- Set standards for data quality, freshness, lineage and access control across the platform
- Own the services that map raw data into the ontology and Computational Knowledge Graph
- Make the graph fast and reliable at industrial scale, and give applications clean APIs to query it
- Work with the Model Hub and agent teams so models and AI agents can read from and act on the graph safely


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