Sr. Operations Research Scientist

Your Job

We are seeking an Sr. Operations Research Scientist to join our Data and AI capability.

What You Will Do

• 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, leverage AI
• Propose modeling and application approaches
• Mine the data to check completeness, value distributions, etc.
• Test models for quality and scalability, applications for quality and alignment to expected user experience
• Collaborate with product managers to find the best way to present results and develop backlog, new features
• Collaborate with other developers and platform team to productionize models, and build software
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• A minimum of 3 years of post-academic experience developing and deploying advanced optimization models.
• Expert in mathematical optimization and decomposition of complex problems for custom solutions.
• Experience with commercial (Gurobi, Cplex, Xpress) or free/open source (GLPK, lp_solve, MIPCL) solvers.
• Experience developing in Python, Java, or C within a collaborative production environment.
• Advanced experience in scheduling and routing optimization problems.
• 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.
• Examples of how your passion for data driven decision making and intellectual curiosity translated into value for your organization.
• Experience with statistics and data mining techniques and methodologies (data prep/modeling, classification, regression, clustering, causal modeling).
• High quality understanding of stochastic processes and uncertainty modeling, experience formulating and solving Mixed Integer linear, non-Linear, quadratic Programming models.
• An advanced Degree (Masters or PhD) in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science.
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Azure for software development
• AI Experience and vision for potential use within optimization space
• Strong research skills and the ability to put emerging ideas into practice through rapid experimentation and prototyping
• Experience with Gurobi and open source (GLPK, lp_solve, MIPCL) solvers.
• Advanced experience in scheduling and routing optimization problems
  
  
  

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

Koch Industries creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We 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 most. Our 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 assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.