Senior Data Scientist — Large-Scale Optimization

Totalwine; Maryland; On-site; USD 122,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Health care plans

401(k)

HSA

Disability & life insurance

Paid parental leave

Pet insurance

Tuition assistance

Career development & product training

Job summary

Total Wine & More in Bethesda, MD invites a Senior Data Scientist, Operations Research to lead optimization efforts across pricing, inventory, supply chain, and marketing. You will translate business problems into formal optimization frameworks, build scalable models, and deploy decision systems into production, collaborating with stakeholders and guiding data pipelines.

You will report to the Sr. Director, Data Science and apply deep OR expertise, data engineering skills, and software

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3–6 years of experience in Operations Research / Optimization or related fields preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Gurobi (strongly preferred) or similar solvers (CPLEX, OR-Tools).
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with emphasis on scalable, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Formulate decision problems as mathematical optimization models (LP, MILP, MINLP).
• Design and implement large-scale optimization models.
• Leverage solvers like Gurobi to build high-performance solutions.
• Develop end-to-end decision systems with production workflows.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define objectives, constraints, and trade-offs.
• Evaluate solution quality via scenario testing and sensitivity analysis.
• Scale and productionize models, including API development and monitoring.
• Build and maintain data pipelines for modeling workflows.
• Communicate model structure and results to leadership.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud environments

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Gurobi

CPLEX

OR-Tools

Job description

Total Wine & More in Bethesda, MD invites a Senior Data Scientist, Operations Research to lead optimization efforts across pricing, inventory, supply chain, and marketing. You will translate business problems into formal optimization frameworks, build scalable models, and deploy decision systems into production, collaborating with stakeholders and guiding data pipelines.

You will report to the Sr. Director, Data Science and apply deep OR expertise, data engineering skills, and software