Note : If screened-in, you will be invited for initial rounds on 10th October 2026 (Saturday) in Bangalore.

AI Scientist, Planning (SCM)

Total Experience : 6 - 10 years

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.

- 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 qualified growth are the norm.
- Meaningful Impact - Work on AI-driven projects that drive real change across industries and improve lives.

About the Role :

As an experienced 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.

You Will :

- Build demand forecasting models across industrial verticals, applying probabilistic, hierarchical, and intermittent demand methods where history is short or volatile.




- 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.
- 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 into planning models.
- Own the path from research to production in collaboration with ML Engineering, delivering scalable and monitored services.
- Mentor junior data scientists on technical depth and OR/ML fundamentals.

You'll Have :

- Ph.D. or master's degree in operations research, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- 6 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 forecasting libraries (Prophet, statsmodels, GluonTS).
- Strong foundation in statistical modeling.
- Experience with supply chain and operational data.
- Ability to translate business problems into mathematical optimization or ML formulations.
- Experience deploying models into production environments.

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