Senior Data Scientist: Operations Research & Optimization

United Airlines; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k)

Job summary

United Airlines seeks an Operations Research Analyst within the Digital Technology team to build quantitative models that support critical decisions across financial, operational, and strategic domains. You will leverage OR, ML, and programming to deliver practical solutions and present findings to management and clients.

Responsibilities include model design, prototype development, and collaboration with product delivery groups, ensuring ROI-aligned scope and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field with emphasis on analytics.
• Experience with mathematical programming techniques.
• Experience with optimization toolkits such as CPLEX, AMPL or OPL.
• Proficiency in programming languages like C, C++, Java, R, Python.

Responsibilities

• Provide mathematical modeling to support financial, operational, and strategic decisions.
• Develop and validate analytics models and hypotheses.
• Communicate results clearly to management and clients.
• Develop deck content and present findings to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product delivery teams to implement models.
• Identify scope risks and ROI considerations in analyses.
• Keep abreast of analytical methods and research in OR and analytics fields.

Skills

Advanced analytics

Quantitative modeling

Client communication

Problem solving

Education

PhD or ABD in Operations Research or related quantitative field

Tools

CPLEX

AMPL

OPL

C/C++/Java/R/Python

Job description

United Airlines seeks an Operations Research Analyst within the Digital Technology team to build quantitative models that support critical decisions across financial, operational, and strategic domains. You will leverage OR, ML, and programming to deliver practical solutions and present findings to management and clients.

Responsibilities include model design, prototype development, and collaboration with product delivery groups, ensuring ROI-aligned scope and timely delivery.