Lead Quantitative Researcher – Last-Mile Optimization

Relay; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Relay is reshaping how goods move in an online era, backed by major funding and a culture of experimentation. As a Quantitative Researcher in London, you will lead optimisation for the last mile and craft models that improve routing, pricing and scheduling for couriers and the network.

You will work with a team of Operational Research scientists to deploy live solutions, integrate ML with OR, and grow a high-impact research culture in a fast-growing logistics tech company.

Qualifikationen

• Deep expertise in operational research from a PhD, publications, or frontier industrial work.
• Experience building optimisation systems or ML models that run in production.
• Ability to translate complex problems into structured, scalable solutions.
• Strong collaboration and ability to explain ideas simply.

Aufgaben

• Lead optimisation for Relay's last mile, routing and pricing.
• Model and optimise decisions that define the network and marketplace.
• Develop solvers and algorithms to run live at scale.
• Collaborate with other Scientists to unite ML and recommender systems with Operational Research.

Kenntnisse

Operational research

Optimization

Production deployment

Machine learning models

Collaborative work

Ausbildung

PhD in OR or quantitative field

Jobbeschreibung

Relay is reshaping how goods move in an online era, backed by major funding and a culture of experimentation. As a Quantitative Researcher in London, you will lead optimisation for the last mile and craft models that improve routing, pricing and scheduling for couriers and the network.

You will work with a team of Operational Research scientists to deploy live solutions, integrate ML with OR, and grow a high-impact research culture in a fast-growing logistics tech company.