(Senior) Founding Data Scientist
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The role
🧠 Join as a founding Data Scientist and build our learning-augmented optimization stack for real-world planning & routing. Turn messy constraints into production systems, balancing quality vs. latency so decisions run in-loop with our agents. Mix of research, pragmatic engineering, and close work with ops.
What you’ll do
* Design & ship optimization services for planning (heuristics + learning-based).
* Deliver measurable wins on cost, feasibility, SLA adherence, and latency.
* Add ML where it matters: forecasts, service times, policy/value learning.
* Build diagnostics so operators trust outputs.
* Partner with customers to turn rules into deployable models.
Must-have skills
* 5+ years building & shipping optimization/ML systems (or PhD + 2 yrs).
* Track record of taking ideas from research to production.
* Depth in at least one: RL, very large-scale optimization, or applied ML (focused on graphs).
* Strong systems experience (production code, pipelines, orchestration, monitoring).
* Clear communication; fluent English.
* Nice to have: routing/planning, forecasting, or graph learning.
* German (B2+) is a plus.
How we work
* Pragmatic engineering: simple first, measurable improvement always.
* Tight feedback loop with customers & ops.
* Small team, high ownership, direct impact.
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