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AI Engineer - Allocation and Packing Systems

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

Core

Design and implement AI-driven allocation and packing models for transport assets to optimize logistics decisions in defense and humanitarian missions.

Role type

Senior IC operations research engineer (allocation and packing systems)

Builds

Deterministic allocation and packing solutions for transport fleets and resupply workflows

Domain

Defense logistics / Operations Research / Optimization

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, operations research, optimization algorithms, bin packing, knapsack, multidimensional packing, linear programming, mixed-integer programming, heuristic methods, constraint encoding, data pipeline ownership

Preferred skills

simulation integration, defense/government planning experience, machine learning, A/B testing, causal inference

Responsibilities

Design packing and allocation models for transport assets; Implement and tune heuristics or exact approaches for packing problems; Validate, normalize, and maintain packing-related datasets; Integrate packing outputs into resupply and routing workflows

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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