Forward Deployed Engineer
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
