Lead Engineer, Computational Knowledge Graph

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Who We Are & Why Join Us</span></strong></p> <p><strong>Avathon</strong> 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.</p> <p><strong>Cutting-Edge AI Innovation</strong> -- Join a team at the forefront of AI, developing groundbreaking solutions that shape the future. <strong>High-Growth Environment</strong> -- Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility, collaboration, and rapid professional growth are the norm. <strong>Meaningful Impact</strong> -- Work on AI-driven projects that drive real change across industries and improve lives.</p> <p>Learn more at: <span><a href="http://avathon.com" target="_blank">avathon.com</a></span></p> <div class="content-intro"> </div></div><div id="container" class="split-container"> <div id="preview" class="column preview-pane"> <div id="preview-wrapper"> <div id="output" class="content markdown-body"> <h2>About the Role</h2> <p><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">We are seeking an experienced Lead Knowledge Graph Engineer to help design, develop, and scale our Computational Knowledge Graph (CKG) platform. In this role, you will lead full-stack development, spanning graph storage engines, query optimization, graph processing engine. You will collaborate closely with data scientists, product managers, and customers to build solutions that leverage CKG’s unique computational capabilities.</span></p> <p>This is a mid-senior level position (5–7 years of experience) combining technical leadership with hands-on development.</p> <h3>You Will</h3> <ul> <li><span><strong data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Model complex domains.</strong> Design knowledge graph schemas, ontologies and data models for supply chain, manufacturing BOM and logistics data.</span></li> <li> <div><strong>Build ingestion pipelines.</strong> Create and maintain pipelines that bring data from enterprise systems (such as SAP), databases and files into the graph, with the right data quality checks in place. Build the connectors for both IT and OT systems.</div> </li> <li><span><strong>Write and tune graph queries.</strong> Develop multi-hop traversals, joins and aggregations in our graph query language (IQL) and in Gremlin, and tune them to run well on datasets with millions of records. Add more graph algorithms for faster multi-hop traversal.</span></li> <li><span><strong>Build high-performance components.</strong> Develop and optimize performance-critical graph and compute components in C++. Improve graph processing engine to support large data set.</span></li> <li><span><strong>Deliver analytics on the graph.</strong> Build computational functions, graph analytics, and connect the graph to Python and NumPy workflows for advanced analytics and ML model integr