Engineering Lead, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Pleasanton, California, United States. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own the technical delivery of PLM integrations and AI capabilities. You will work to connect PLM, CAD/PDM, ERP and MES systems to the Avathon platform and lead a small team of engineers.

What you will do

Own the technical design for integrating customer PLM systems with the Avathon platform
Build and maintain connectors and data pipelines from PLM, CAD/PDM, ERP and MES sources
Define canonical data models for parts, EBOM and MBOM structures, variants, effectivity and engineering changes
Set standards for data quality, sync latency and reconciliation
Model product structures and change relationships in the Computational Knowledge Graph
Build backend services for BOM comparison, engineering change impact and clear-to-build views
Work with ML, data science and agent teams to apply models and AI agents to PLM data
Turn one-off customer work into reusable platform components
Lead through discovery, build, go-live and hypercare on customer deployments
Run technical working sessions with customer PLM, IT and engineering teams

Required qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
8+ years of software engineering experience
3+ years leading engineers or technical delivery
Hands-on integration experience with at least one enterprise PLM platform (Teamcenter, Windchill, 3DEXPERIENCE, SAP PLM or Oracle Agile)
Strong working knowledge of BOM management, engineering change management, variants and effectivity
Experience integrating PLM with ERP, CAD/PDM, MES and quality systems
Strong backend skills in Python with experience building data pipelines and REST APIs
Experience in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace or defense environments
Comfortable working directly with customers and traveling to customer sites
Clear technical writing and communication

Nice to have

Experience with graph data models or graph databases
Familiarity with digital thread concepts
MBSE exposure (SysML, Cameo, Rhapsody)

About the company

Avathon is the leading Industrial AI autonomy platform, helping customers across heavy industries accelerate the journey toward autonomous operations. Their platform is built on a Computational Knowledge Graph foundation.