Airline Optimization Engineer: Revenue & Automation

Allegiant; Las Vegas, Northern (NV, KY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Allegiant is seeking an Optimization Engineer – Commercial in Las Vegas to convert complex commercial decisions into model-based solutions. You will combine operations research with software engineering to deliver production-ready workflows and automate recurring processes.

You will partner with the Commercial Data Science team to integrate predictive models into prescriptive processes, while iterating on existing optimization logic and driving feature requests with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in writing production-quality Python code.
• Experience with linear/nonlinear/integer programming and related models.
• Experience building optimization models using Python libraries (PuLP, Pyomo, OR-Tools, SciPy).
• Knowledge of predictive modeling and forecasting methods and their Python implementations.
• SQL querying and data exploration for inputs and experiments.

Responsibilities

• Formulate airline commercial problems into quantitative models to improve revenue and reduce costs.
• Build and refine optimization models within Python-based decision-support systems.
• Design evaluations of model features and changes using controlled experiments or simulations.
• Collaborate with the Commercial Data Science team to integrate ML solutions into decision tools.
• Extract/transform/load data from various sources to support models and workflows.
• Support production systems and troubleshoot data/model issues.
• Work with stakeholders to deliver user-facing improvements to decision tools.
• Document methodologies and stay current with industry trends.

Skills

Python programming

Pandas/NumPy

Optimization modeling

LP/ILP/DOE optimization

SQL querying

statistics and forecasting

Machine learning basics

Vectorization/parallelization

Communication with stakeholders

Ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics/Operations Research/Industrial Engineering/Data Science/Statistics

Tools

PuLP

Pyomo

OR-Tools

SciPy

Pandas

NumPy

Job description

Allegiant is seeking an Optimization Engineer – Commercial in Las Vegas to convert complex commercial decisions into model-based solutions. You will combine operations research with software engineering to deliver production-ready workflows and automate recurring processes.

You will partner with the Commercial Data Science team to integrate predictive models into prescriptive processes, while iterating on existing optimization logic and driving feature requests with stakeholders.