Senior OR Scientist: Real-Time Last-Mile Optimisation

Relay; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Relay, a fast-growing logistics company, seeks a Senior Operational Research Scientist to own and advance optimisation across the last mile, routing and pricing decisions. You will build live solvers, integrate ML with OR, and partner with researchers to raise Relay’s research bar and impact.

You will collaborate with a diverse team to tackle large, real-time problems, and help shape the future of our network and marketplace with rigorous, data-driven approaches.

Qualifications

• PhD or advanced degree preferred.
• Experience building optimisation systems in production.
• Ability to combine ML with optimisation research.

Responsibilities

• Lead optimisation for Relay's last mile, making the best routing, pricing and scheduling decisions for couriers and the wider network.
• Model and optimise the decisions that define our last-mile delivery network and marketplace.
• Develop our solvers and algorithms so they perform live, and at scale.
• Partner with other Scientists to unite ML and recommender systems with Operational Research.
• Raise the standard for Operational Research at Relay, and grow the team, the research culture and our voice in the tech community.

Skills

Operational Research

Optimization

ML integration

Production models

Education

PhD or advanced degree

Job description

Relay, a fast-growing logistics company, seeks a Senior Operational Research Scientist to own and advance optimisation across the last mile, routing and pricing decisions. You will build live solvers, integrate ML with OR, and partner with researchers to raise Relay’s research bar and impact.

You will collaborate with a diverse team to tackle large, real-time problems, and help shape the future of our network and marketplace with rigorous, data-driven approaches.