AI Scientist, Planning (SCM)

About the role

As an experienced AI Scientist – Planning, you will design and develop the AI and optimization models that power Avathon's planning intelligence - demand forecasting, supply planning, inventory optimization, and S&OP decision support for customers across energy, mining, manufacturing, and logistics. This role sits at the intersection of AI, ML and operations research.

What you'll do

• Build demand forecasting models across industrial verticals, applying probabilistic, hierarchical, and intermittent demand methods where history is short or volatile
• Design supply planning and inventory optimization models across multi-echelon networks with capacity constraints and variable lead times
• Formulate and solve optimization problems (MIP, LP, constraint programming) for production scheduling, allocation, and resource planning
• Build simulation and scenario analysis frameworks to support S&OP and integrated business planning workflows
• Define evaluation metrics, build backtesting pipelines, and run controlled experiments to measure and improve model performance

What you need

• 6–11 yrs of experience
• Supply chain
• Machine learning
• Python
• Statistics
• Demand planning
• ERP
• PhD or B.Tech or B.E.

Good to have

• AWS
• GCP
• Production planning
• NLP
• Computer vision