Engineering Lead, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Avathon•Pleasanton, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Avathon is seeking an Engineering Lead for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to oversee the technical delivery of Avathon's PLM integrations and the AI capabilities built upon them. This role involves collaborating with Forward Deployed Design Leads and customer engineering teams to integrate PLM, CAD/PDM, ERP, and MES systems with the Avathon platform. Responsibilities include modeling product structures and engineering change flows within the Computational Knowledge Graph, and developing features such as BOM comparison, change impact analysis, and digital thread capabilities. This is a hands-on leadership position requiring coding, ownership of integration architecture, and guiding a small engineering team through implementation, go-live, and hypercare.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
8+ years of software engineering experience, including 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), including its APIs and data model.
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 with graph data models or graph databases is a strong plus.
Familiarity with digital thread concepts; MBSE exposure (SysML, Cameo, Rhapsody) is a plus.
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 Haves

Experience with graph data models or graph databases is a strong plus.
MBSE exposure (SysML, Cameo, Rhapsody) is a plus.

Responsibilities

Own the technical design for integrating customer PLM systems (Teamcenter, Windchill, 3DEXPERIENCE, SAP PLM, Oracle Agile) with the Avathon platform.
Build and maintain connectors and data pipelines from PLM, CAD/PDM, ERP and MES sources into our Bronze/Silver/Gold data lake.
Define canonical data models for parts, EBOM and MBOM structures, variants, effectivity and engineering changes.
Set standards for data quality, sync latency and reconciliation between source systems and the platform.
Model product structures and change relationships (ECR, ECO, MCA, MBOM, BOP) in the Computational Knowledge Graph so any change can be traced to its downstream impact.
Build the backend services behind BOM comparison, engineering change impact and clear-to-build views.
Work with ML, data science and agent teams to apply Normal Behavior Models and AI agents to PLM data, such as flagging unusual ECR patterns or change-driven supply risk.
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 and act as the senior technical contact on the account.
Own go-live readiness: integration testing, data validation, performance and security review.
Review designs and code, set engineering practices, and mentor engineers on the PLM domain.
Partner with design, product and customer success to scope work, call out risk early and keep delivery on plan.