Optimization Specialist

2 weeks ago

India Mercor Full time ₹ 15,00,000 - ₹ 25,00,000 per year

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Role Description

This role involves tackling real-world scheduling, routing, allocation, and constraint satisfaction problems using mathematical programming and heuristics. You'll design robust optimization models and reproducible pipelines that directly power advanced AI-driven systems.

Qualifications

  • Background in operations research, applied mathematics, computer science, or engineering
  • Proficient in Python and optimization libraries such as CVXPY, OR-Tools, CPLEX, SciPy, NumPy, and pandas
  • Understanding of mathematical programming methods (MILP, CP, heuristics) and their tradeoffs
  • Experience designing models for scheduling, routing, or allocation at scale
  • Comfortable building reproducible pipelines and benchmarking optimization approaches
  • Care about delivering models that balance optimality, scalability, and real-world performance
  • Curious about how optimization connects with AI systems and large-scale decision engines

Requirements

  • Design and implement optimization models and heuristics that solve large-scale real-world scheduling, routing, and allocation problems
  • Deliver reproducible, production-grade pipelines for AI-driven systems

What You'll Do

  • Build scalable optimization pipelines for scheduling, routing, and resource allocation
  • Translate AI lab and product requirements into robust optimization formulations (MILP/CP, heuristics)
  • Benchmark, validate, and stress-test optimization models with real-world datasets
  • Develop heuristics and approximation methods for time-sensitive and large-scale workloads
  • Collaborate with AI researchers and engineers to integrate optimization into production systems
  • Document models, experiments, and workflows for reproducibility and reliability

Why This Role Is Exciting

  • Pioneer optimization pipelines that power AI systems in production
  • Apply cutting-edge mathematical programming techniques to high-impact, real-world problems
  • Collaborate on a high-impact effort at the intersection of optimization, AI, and large-scale engineering
  • Help shape how advanced optimization drives the next wave of AI research and applications

Pay & Work Structure

  • Classified as an hourly contractor to Mercor
  • Paid weekly via Stripe Connect, based on hours logged
  • Part-time (20–30 hrs/week) with flexible hours—work from anywhere, on your schedule
  • Weekly Bonus of $500–$1000 USD per 5 tasks created
  • Remote and flexible working style

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