Senior Data Scientist, Energy

Job Description

Job Description

Who We Are & Why Join Us

Avathon is revolutionizing industrial AI with a powerful platform that enables businesses to harness the full potential of their operational data. Our technology seamlessly integrates and contextualizes siloed datasets, providing a 360-degree operational view that enhances decision-making and efficiency. With advanced capabilities like digital twins, natural language processing, normal behavior modeling, and machine vision, we create real-time virtual replicas of physical assets, enabling predictive maintenance, performance simulation, and operational optimization. Our AI-driven models empower companies with scalable solutions for anomaly detection, performance forecasting, and asset lifetime extension—all tailored to the complexities of industrial environments.

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

The Applied Research team addresses hard, novel challenges that arise in product development or customer engagements. As a Senior Data Scientist, Energy you'll bring your knowledge and proven data science expertise to conduct research in machine learning-based solutions that improve our products and help our customers. Qualified candidates are deeply analytical with a keen understanding of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science. They are experienced researchers who know how to design worthwhile experiments and empirically derive conclusions. They have the ability, inclination, and experience to conduct research that solves practical problems. They have the communication skills to work closely with both research colleagues and customers.

You will:

• Independently and effectively engage with internal product developers, external customers, and subject matter experts to understand and solve critical technical challenges through the application of cutting-edge artificial intelligence
• Conduct research and design technical solutions that improve models for commercial and industrial applications, such as anomaly detection, simulation, optimization, forecasting, etc
• Conduct research on core challenges facing applications of artificial intelligence, such as transparency, explainability, transferability and continuous learning
• Pioneer procedures and/or automated toolsets to more efficiently and effectively perform data science activities
• Contribute to AI product development and key data science research areas, internally and externally
• Propose new projects or initiatives that will yield business benefits and evaluate project plans and proposals
• Evaluate and respond to RFPs related to artificial intelligence
• Conduct research and write patent applications and technical publications
• Serve as a people manager to other data scientists, as needed

You'll Have:

• Experience with research-level innovation in Data Science and ML, preferably with an advanced degree.
• 3-5 years of experience in the energy industry, with extensive knowledge of AI-based modeling, simulation and optimization
• Strong understanding of Data Science, including machine learning, statistics, probability, and modeling.
• Significant experience with Data Science programming languages, such as Python, R, Matlab
• Significant experience with machine learning frameworks, such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Theano, and Keras.
• Applied knowledge of ML techniques/algorithms including linear models, neural networks, decision trees, Bayesian techniques, clustering, and anomaly detection
• Significant experience managing large volumes of data (terabytes or more)
• Experience with leading project teams, specifically data science teams
• Preferably Ph.D in Geophysics
• Strong written and verbal communications, ability to translate complex technical topics to internal and external stakeholders.

Pay Range: $150,000 - $185,000 base salary. Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Avathon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Avathon is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us to discuss how we can assist you.