Job Description

Greeting from Starkflow!

We are looking for a Senior Optimization Engineer for one of our direct client.

The Day-to-Day responsibilities:

• Mentor junior optimization team members and share knowledge
• Work with transportation industry specialists to take AI predictions of complex output and convert them to an actionable AI
• Build complex automated solutions for NP hard combinatorial optimization and dynamic constraint optimization business problems
• Develop complex move generation and search space reduction through composite layer of algorithms from integer programming, dynamic programming, differential evolution etc
• Work together with domain specialists and the solution-lead to understand the problem
• Develop complex automated solutions for combinatorial optimization problem such as operations research, constraint optimization, or rule models for identified business problems

• Education: Masters Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Computational Physics

• Experience:

• 4+ years experience in Combinatorial optimization, Operations Research & Management, Dynamic Programming, Constraint Programming or related field
• 3+ years experience in operations research in the context of warehouse organization, logistics, supply chain, container terminal

• Strong level knowledge of the following areas:

• Combinatorial optimization of large Search Space Optimization algorithms using simple to complex multiple level optimization such as Tabu, Simulated Annealing, Ant-Colony, shortest path
• Applied statistics, constraint programming, mixed and integer programming, relational databases and building processes using SQL
• Data processing development in Java, Scala, or Kotlin
• Search Space Reduction Techniques
• Programming in the context of optimization, or numerical processing
• Skilled in at least one scripting language (Python, R, Julia etc.), or similar language in the context of machine learning, numerical processing, optimization, or simulation
• Preferred: Research experience

• Ability to balance machine generated output within business boundary conditions
• Effective in delivering and integrating your solutions into real-time business problems
• Thrive in a collaborative culture and know the best solutions are arrived to by diversity of thought and perspective
• Charismatic personality with a self-motivated attitude ready to tackle challenges that come your way
• Have a constant passion for learning and natural curiosity
• Analytical thinking skills with the ability to problem solve and have a high standard for accuracy and integrity
• Work well under pressure, with the ability to shift quickly and keep moving forward in a fast-moving environment