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AI Engineer – Routing & Network Optimization

El Segundo, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-01-13 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build AI-driven routing and network optimization systems to determine optimal movement of supplies, vehicles, and materiel across global distribution networks under capacity and risk constraints.

Role type

Senior IC AI Engineer (Operations Research & Network Optimization)

Builds

Production-grade routing models, solvers, and planning pipelines for logistics networks

Domain

Defense logistics, network optimization, graph theory

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, graph theory, network optimization, shortest-path algorithms, network flow models, VRP, time-phased routing, modeling languages (Pyomo, GAMS, AMPL), solvers (CPLEX, Gurobi), large-scale graph handling

Preferred skills

vehicle routing experience, simulation/digital-twin collaboration, defense/government logistics background, ML experimentation, data operationalization

Technologies

Pyomo, GAMS, AMPL, CPLEX, Gurobi

Responsibilities

Design and implement routing models for transportation and warehousing; tune routing solvers using exact, heuristic, and hybrid algorithms; own and validate routing datasets; integrate routing systems into real-time and batch planning pipelines

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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