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Senior Operational Research Scientist
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
Experience
Senior · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Senior Operational Research Scientist at Relay, leading optimisation of the last-mile delivery network, including routing, pricing and scheduling decisions. The role involves building and scaling solvers and algorithms and uniting ML and recommender systems with operational research.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
What you'll do
- Lead optimisation for Relay's last mile, making the best routing, pricing and scheduling decisions for couriers and the wider network
- Model and optimise the decisions that define our last-mile delivery network and marketplace
- Develop our solvers and algorithms so they perform live, and at scale
- Partner with other Scientists to unite ML and recommender systems with Operational Research
- Raise the standard for Operational Research at Relay, and grow the team, the research culture and our voice in the tech community
What we're looking for
- Deep expertise in operational research, whether from a PhD, publications, or years at the frontier in industry
- Come from operational research or industrial engineering, or from an advanced quantitative discipline, including trading, that has branched into optimisation
- Have built optimisation systems or ML models that run in production, and owned the outcome
- Are energised by large, messy problems, and know how to bring structure to them
- Collaborate generously, and explain complex ideas simply
Your team
Operational Research
A team of Operational Research Scientists who designed the decision architecture the network runs on and built Relay's in-house solver.
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About Relay
Relay is reshaping how goods move in an online era, backed by Europe's largest-ever logistics Series A ($35M) led by Plural and a recently closed Series B ($95M).
Mission
To free commerce from friction
Key facts
- ~160 people
- logistics
- Backed by Europe's largest-ever logistics Series A ($35M) led by deep-tech investors Plural
- Recently closed Series B ($95M)
- Scaling faster than 99% of venture-backed startups
- ~160 people, around half in engineering, product and data
- 45+ advanced degrees across computer science, mathematics and operations research
- An in-house solver, built and owned by the Operational Research team, running live at scale
Partners & customers
Plural
What they value
- Aim with Precision
- Play to Win
- 1% Better Every Day
- All In, All the Time
- People-Powered Greatness
- Grow the Whole Pie