Senior Scheduling Optimization Engineer

Anduril Industries; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Numerical Optimization Engineer to own the scheduling core for shipyard production. You will model a graph of 100,000+ manufacturing operations with precedence, resources, and qualifications, and continuously replan as the factory changes.

The role emphasizes producing fast, reliable schedules with measurable quality and stability. You will work with OT/IT boundaries, integrate solvers, and ship research-grade ideas into production systems, collaborating

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Experience building production software systems and applying optimization to real-world problems.
• Strong communication to explain trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Formulate shipyard production scheduling as a mathematical optimization problem with precedence, resources, and constraints.
• Own and benchmark solver interfaces, comparing performance on makespan, stability, and solve time.
• Develop fast local repair and global re-solve strategies to adapt to disruptions.

Skills

Numerical optimization

Modeling real-world problems

Communication

Education

Advanced degree in OR/Applied Math/CS/IE

Tools

Gurobi

CPLEX

OR-Tools

SCIP

PuLP

CVXPY

Pyomo

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Numerical Optimization Engineer to own the scheduling core for shipyard production. You will model a graph of 100,000+ manufacturing operations with precedence, resources, and qualifications, and continuously replan as the factory changes.

The role emphasizes producing fast, reliable schedules with measurable quality and stability. You will work with OT/IT boundaries, integrate solvers, and ship research-grade ideas into production systems, collaborating