Forward Deploy AI Engineer (SLM)

About this role

<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><p><strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Staff AI/ Data Scientist – Supply Chain AI (Small Language Models)</span></span></strong> <span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">At </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Avathon</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">, we build AI products that solve real industrial problems at scale. We believe the future of enterprise AI lies in </span><span data-contrast="auto">small, focused, high-performance models</span><span data-contrast="auto">—deeply grounded in domain context—not just large, generic systems.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We’re looking for an experienced </span><span data-contrast="auto">Data Scientist</span><span data-contrast="auto"> to join our </span><span data-contrast="auto">Supply Chain AI</span><span data-contrast="auto"> team in India. In this role, you’ll design, fine-tune, and deploy optimized </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Small Language Models (SLMs)</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> that power production-grade AI features across logistics, planning, inventory, and demand forecasting.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">What Makes This Role Unique</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This is a </span><span data-contrast="auto">product-first data science role</span><span data-contrast="auto">. You won’t just build models—you’ll own how they show up in real products used by large enterprises. Your work becomes the intelligence layer that sits on top of our graph and indexing systems and directly drives customer outcomes.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">What You’ll Do</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Build and fine-tune SLMs/LLMs</span><span data-contrast="auto"> for production use cases such as semantic search, forecasting, contract intelligence,…