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Salary $100,000 - $170,000 a year
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Description
We are seeking a senior operations research scientist to join our advanced analytics capability backed by billionsWe love passionate, forward thinking individuals who are driven to innovateYou will have the opportunity to engage with business analysts, analytics consultants, and internal customers to implement ideas, optimize existing products, and create high performance products using powerful, contemporary cloud servicesThis opportunity engages diverse types of business applications and data sets at a rapid pace, and our ideal candidate gets excited when they are faced with a challenge.
Koch global solutions (kgs) is the global problem-solver of business needs for koch industriesWe serve more than 120,000 koch employees worldwide and partner with 11 koch companies from a diverse number of industries; from making fabric to manufacturing cell phone componentsSince 2003 we have invested over $80 billion in acquisitions and other capital expenditures and are proud to reinvest more than 90% of our earnings back into our companies.
This role is open to being 100% remote
What you will do in your role
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
Propose modeling approaches
Mine the data to check completeness, value distributions, etc.
Test models for quality and scalability
Collaborate with product managers to find the best way to present the results
Work with developers on productionizing models
The experience you will bring
Requirements:
A minimum of 3 years of post-academic experience developing and deploying advanced optimization models
Advanced experience in scheduling and routing optimization problems
Experience with commercial (gurobi, cplex, xpress) or free/open source (glpk, lp_solve, mipcl, etc.) solvers.
Experience developing in python, java, or c++ within a collaborative production environment
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
Experience with statistics and data mining techniques and methodologies (data prep/modeling, classification, regression, clustering, causal modeling)
Deep level of understanding of experience formulating and solving mixed integer linear programming
An advanced degree (masters or phd) in operations research, industrial engineering, or mathematics.
What will put you ahead
High quality understanding of stochastic processes, uncertainty modeling non-linear and quadratic programming models.
Experience leveraging cloud platforms such as amazon web services (aws), google cloud, or azure
Experience with genetic algorithms and simulated annealing
Strong research skills and the ability to put emerging ideas into practice through rapid experimentation and prototyping
Working knowledge of advanced multivariate statistics and applied mathematics
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy livesWe provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters mostOur benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, add, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistanceSpecific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable summary plan description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic regionIf you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
At koch companies, we are entrepreneursThis means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributionsAny compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market dataThe actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic locationIf you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
For this role, we anticipate paying $ 100,000 - $ 170,000 per yearThis role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
Equal opportunity employer.
Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test.
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