Sr. Operations Research Analyst

Job Description

Under limited supervision, provides research and analysis in support of the evaluation and oversight to operations initiatives and strategic programs, through the use of complex modeling/tool development and other operations research methods. Provides support of enterprise collaborations on the development and adoption of operations technology and systems. Researches significant development in non-core transport industries and technologies. Works with cross-functional teams to facilitate, lead and/or assist in project/program management. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop new optimization algorithms (mathematical and/or heuristic).
• Maintain/Improve existing optimization algorithms in existing products.
• Assist in the improvement of existing optimization algorithms.
• Assist in the creation and implementation of detailed specifications and code.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge & Skills:

• CPLEX, GUROBI, LINDO API
• Operations Research (OR) Linear Programming (LP), Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP), Dynamic Programming (DP)
• Non-linear programming
• Heuristic, Hyper-heuristic methods
• Simulated Annealing (SA), Tabu Search (TS), Machine Learning (ML), Perturbation, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Stochastic programming
• Clustering methods
• Multi-Objective optimization
• Java

Skills/Knowledge

• At least 10 years of experience with the following skills (skills can be gained concurrently with education):
• Mathematical modeling of large-scale, real-world optimization problems and design of algorithms that obtain implementable cost-efficient solutions
• Experience with real-time optimization and optimizing and architecting solutions for speed without compromising on solution quality.
• Programming in software languages such as Java and C++
• Use of CPLEX Concert and Gurobi optimization modeling packages
• UNIX, LINUX and Windows operating systems