Founding Optimisation Engineer - AI Dispatch

Visa Hunt; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Significant equity

25 days holiday + birthday off

Moorgate office

Learning & development budget

Foundational role defining the engine

Job summary

DayJob seeks a Founding Optimisation Engineer in London to design and scale our optimisation engine for short-haul trucking. You will own end-to-end model development, from conception to deployment, leveraging state-of-the-art algorithms and pragmatic constraints to improve customer economics.

We value a track record in real-world optimisation or ML for logistics, strong Python/SQL skills, and willingness to lead as we scale from a founding team in a fast-growing startup.

Qualifications

• Degree in mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering or a similar quantitative field.
• 4+ years working on optimisation, routing, scheduling, or applied OR problems with deployed systems.
• Track record of building and shipping optimisation or ML solutions in transport/logistics.
• Experience with geospatial data and related algorithms.
• Strong Python and SQL, with hands-on use of solvers (OR-Tools, Gurobi, CPLEX).
• Ability to design, build, deploy and tune models end-to-end.
• Comfort with messy operational data and edge-case workflows.
• Experience mentoring or leading engineers or a clear aspiration to start.

Skills

Python

SQL

Geospatial data

Solvers (OR-Tools,Gurobi,CPLEX)

Graph theory / computational geometry

Deployed systems experience

Education

Mathematics/Physics/CS/Engineering degree

Tools

OR-Tools

Gurobi

CPLEX

Job description

DayJob seeks a Founding Optimisation Engineer in London to design and scale our optimisation engine for short-haul trucking. You will own end-to-end model development, from conception to deployment, leveraging state-of-the-art algorithms and pragmatic constraints to improve customer economics.

We value a track record in real-world optimisation or ML for logistics, strong Python/SQL skills, and willingness to lead as we scale from a founding team in a fast-growing startup.