Senior Operational Research Scientist - Last Mile

Relay; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity

Private health & dental coverage

25 days holidays

Enhanced parental leave

Hardware of your choice

Extensive perks

Job summary

Relay is transforming last‑mile logistics in a fast-growing, equity‑rich environment. As the first Operational Research Scientist in Last Mile Marketplace, you will design, build and evolve production optimisation models that govern scheduling, routing and pricing across our network.

Join a data‑driven team of scientists, analysts and engineers to deploy scalable solutions with measurable impact, affecting couriers, retailers and customers every day.

Qualifications

• Experience in operational research applied to scheduling, routing, or pricing problems.
• Ability to translate real-world requirements into mathematical models.
• Experience building production-grade optimization solutions.

Responsibilities

• Translate operational requirements into optimisation models across scheduling, assignment and pricing problems.
• Develop and evaluate solution approaches using mathematical programming and meta-heuristics.
• Design and build algorithms, heuristics and solvers bespoke for Relay's problems.
• Ensure solutions are scalable and adaptable to growing operations.
• Benchmark and evaluate performance of solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering to productionise solutions into automated processes.
• Monitor daily performance and evolve solutions based on data.

Skills

Operational Research

Heuristics

Mathematical Programming

Python

Rust

Julia

C++

Job description

Relay is transforming last‑mile logistics in a fast-growing, equity‑rich environment. As the first Operational Research Scientist in Last Mile Marketplace, you will design, build and evolve production optimisation models that govern scheduling, routing and pricing across our network.

Join a data‑driven team of scientists, analysts and engineers to deploy scalable solutions with measurable impact, affecting couriers, retailers and customers every day.