Senior Data Scientist, Operations Research — Optimization

Total Wine & More; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Discounts for store employees

Health care plans (medical, dental, 
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Job summary

Total Wine & More in Bethesda, MD seeks a Senior Data Scientist, Operations Research to design and deploy optimization and decision science solutions that drive pricing, inventory, supply chain, and marketing decisions. You will work at the intersection of data, modeling, and production systems.

Lead complex optimization projects, translate business problems into formal models, and deliver production-ready solutions with a focus on scalability and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent years of experience
• Master's Degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent years of experience
• 3-6 years' experience in Operations Research / Optimization or related fields preferred

Responsibilities

• Formulate decision problems as mathematical optimization models (LP, MILP, MINLP), translating business constraints and objectives into structured frameworks
• Design and implement large-scale optimization models, solving complex problems involving thousands to millions of variables and constraints
• Leverage solvers such as Gurobi (preferred) or equivalent tools to build high-performance solutions, including model tuning and performance optimization
• Develop end-to-end decision systems, integrating optimization outputs into production workflows and business processes
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define objective functions, constraints, and trade-offs, ensuring solutions align with real-world decision-making
• Evaluate solution quality through scenario testing, sensitivity analysis, and stress testing of optimization results
• Scale and productionize models, including API development, automation, monitoring, and retraining workflows
• Build and maintain data pipelines to support optimization models, ensuring data quality, availability, and performance at scale
• Communicate model structure, assumptions, and results clearly to leadership, translating complex math into actionable business insights

Skills

Gurobi

Python

SQL

Operations Research

Data pipelines

Cloud environments

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Gurobi

CPLEX

OR-Tools

Job description

Total Wine & More in Bethesda, MD seeks a Senior Data Scientist, Operations Research to design and deploy optimization and decision science solutions that drive pricing, inventory, supply chain, and marketing decisions. You will work at the intersection of data, modeling, and production systems.

Lead complex optimization projects, translate business problems into formal models, and deliver production-ready solutions with a focus on scalability and impact.