Sr. Operations Research Scientist

Your Job

We are seeking an Sr.

Operations Research Scientist to join our Data and AI capability.

What You Will Do


* Work with product managers and clients to better understand the business problem


* Think through a business problem and come up with a set of hypotheses


* Create a list of potentially relevant supporting data elements


* Work with data engineers and/or data analysts to procure data and test it for problems


* Collaborate with other scientists and analysts, leverage AI


* Propose modeling and application approaches


* Mine the data to check completeness, value distributions, etc.


* Test models for quality and scalability, applications for quality and alignment to expected user experience


* Collaborate with product managers to find the best way to present results and develop backlog, new features


* Collaborate with other developers and platform team to productionize models, and build software

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* A minimum of 3 years of post-academic experience developing and deploying advanced optimization models.


* Expert in mathematical optimization and decomposition of complex problems for custom solutions.


* Experience with commercial (Gurobi, Cplex, Xpress) or free/open source (GLPK, lp_solve, MIPCL) solvers.


* Experience developing in Python, Java, or C++ within a collaborative production environment.


* Advanced experience in scheduling and routing optimization problems.


* The ability to rapidly develop proof of concepts and test new ideas, as well as the ability to scale these ideas into production ready models that can be deployed within our organization.


* Examples of how your passion for data driven decision making and intellectual curiosity translated into value for your organization.


* Experience with statistics and data mining techniques and methodologies (data prep/modeling, classification, regression, clustering, causal modeling).


* High quality understanding of stochastic processes and uncertainty modeling, experience formulating and solving Mixed Integer linear, non-Linear, quadratic Programming models.


* An advanced Degree (Masters or PhD) in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science.

What Will Put You Ahead


* Experience leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Azure for software development


* AI Experience and vision for potential use within optimization space


* Strong research skills and the ability to put emerging ideas into practice through rapid experimentation and prototyping


* Experience with Gurobi and open source (GLPK, lp_solve, MIPCL) solvers.


* Advanced experience in scheduling and routing optimization problems

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