Senior Data Scientist - Operations Research & Optimization

JobCubby; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

AirAsia's Data Science Centre of Excellence seeks a Senior Data Scientist (Operations Research) to advance optimization models across airline operations. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate evolving business needs into robust, scalable analytics solutions.

The role leverages OR methods, ML techniques, and cloud deployment to improve revenue, reduce cost, and enhance decision quality in a fast-paced tech-enabled airline environment.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Science (Statistics, Management, Cognitive / Psychology, AI, Analytics, Marketing, Design, HCI).
• Up to 8 yrs relevant experience beyond first degree.
• Experience with common data science toolkits, programming languages, visualisation tools and SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Good applied statistical knowledge with emphasis in business and finance related statistical distributions, statistical testing, modeling, regression analysis, etc.
• Experience with distributed computing platforms and open-source tools and libraries.
• Experience developing and deploying to the cloud.
• Familiar or prone to adopt design thinking methods.
• Able to work under pressure and change, and balance among speed, reliability, interpretability.
• Good working knowledge of productivity tools such as G Suite, Git, Jira, Confluence.
• Experience with code versioning, code review and documentation.
• Experience in one or more of the following specialized areas: Operations Research, Algorithm Engineering, Decision intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Improve models and algorithms to further optimize business outcomes.
• Collaborate and work across functional and multidisciplinary teams in a dynamic environment to develop an understanding of evolving/agile business needs.

Skills

Statistics

Optimization

Machine Learning

Data Visualization

SQL/NoSQL

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Science

Tools

Cplex

Gurobi

Google OR-Tools

Git

Jira

Confluence

Job description

AirAsia's Data Science Centre of Excellence seeks a Senior Data Scientist (Operations Research) to advance optimization models across airline operations. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate evolving business needs into robust, scalable analytics solutions.

The role leverages OR methods, ML techniques, and cloud deployment to improve revenue, reduce cost, and enhance decision quality in a fast-paced tech-enabled airline environment.