Senior AMR Fleet Scheduling & Traffic Engineer

Velenosi&Meredith; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Velenosi&Meredith is seeking a Senior Algorithm / Optimization Engineer in Tagus Park, Portugal for hybrid work. The role focuses on designing and implementing advanced optimization algorithms for AMR fleet scheduling, routing, and order assignment, balancing real-time performance with optimality in production software.

You will model orders, deadlines, routes, robot capabilities, and constraints, and build tools for simulation, benchmarking, and validation while collaborating with multiple

Qualifications

• Strong background in mathematical optimization, algorithms, Operations Research, or applied mathematics.
• Experience with combinatorial optimization, scheduling, routing, assignment, or resource allocation.
• Strong programming skills in Rust and/or Python.
• Production software engineering experience—not just research or prototypes.
• Understanding of algorithms, constraints, objective functions, heuristics, and runtime complexity.
• Experience with APIs, backend services, testing, Git, CI/CD, and performance optimization.
• Ability to evaluate algorithms using simulation, benchmarks, data, and operational KPIs.
• Understanding of logistics, fleet planning, or complex scheduling problems.

Responsibilities

• Design algorithms for AMR assignment, scheduling, routing, and fleet optimization
• Model orders, priorities, deadlines, routes, robot capabilities, and operational constraints
• Develop fast, executable planning solutions balancing optimality and real-time performance
• Work with historical and live data to improve travel-time estimates and planning quality
• Build simulation, benchmarking, and validation tools
• Integrate algorithms into production backend and fleet-management systems
• Collaborate with Backend, Robotics, Product, QA, Simulation, and Fleet Management teams

Skills

Mathematical optimization

Algorithms

Operations Research

Applied mathematics

Combinatorial optimization

Scheduling

Routing

Assignment

Resource allocation

Rust

Python

Backend APIs

CI/CD

Performance optimization

Simulation

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Docker

Kubernetes

ROS

Job description

Velenosi&Meredith is seeking a Senior Algorithm / Optimization Engineer in Tagus Park, Portugal for hybrid work. The role focuses on designing and implementing advanced optimization algorithms for AMR fleet scheduling, routing, and order assignment, balancing real-time performance with optimality in production software.

You will model orders, deadlines, routes, robot capabilities, and constraints, and build tools for simulation, benchmarking, and validation while collaborating with multiple