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Forward Deployed Engineer

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build and maintain custom optimization models for industrial customers' planning problems (inventory, scheduling, supply shortages) by translating real-world constraints into code and ensuring adoption by plant managers.

Role type

Senior Forward Deployed Optimization Engineer

Builds

Production-ready optimization models and data pipelines for specific customer operations

Domain

Industrial Operations / Supply Chain / Optimization

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

End-to-end quantitative modeling, Python (production quality), messy data cleaning, stakeholder management with plant managers, assumption identification, iterative model refinement

Preferred skills

Operations research background, optimization tooling (Gurobi, OR-Tools, Pyomo), production planning domain knowledge, consulting experience

Technologies

Python, Gurobi, OR-Tools, Pyomo

Responsibilities

Sit with customers to understand planning problems and constraints, build and deploy custom optimization models, clean and validate industrial data, iterate models based on feedback, advocate for product improvements based on customer insights

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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