Position: Principal Data Scientist, Last Mile Delivery
Company: Neurons Lab
Category: Data Science
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

With rapidly growing online sales, we are building plans to accelerate the evolution of our Digital business, which will involve the transformation of our core  Order Management platform into a set of modern, resilient, AI-driven, and high-performing services.

As the Last Mile Principal Scientist, you will lead an engineering squad responsible for this high-profile initiative. You have a very customer-centric approach, always striving to understand and factor into your decisions what the most important underlying business and technical requirements are. You make pragmatic decisions and effectively communicate the tradeoffs involved in these.  You are a technologist at heart, have a growth mindset, and always push yourself and the Team to learn more to refine the way we work and pursue excellence. You have an engineering mindset - you embrace challenges with a very solution-focused approach, and you can brainstorm solutions and advocate for an approach by communicating effectively.

**Challenges & responsibilities**

- Lead your team in building the next generation in Meal Order and Delivery platforms to use more modern, flexible, and capable technologies.
- Deliver across the entire life cycle – research, concept, design, build, experiment, deploy, test, release to customers
- Design and develop robust and scalable solutions within the Last Mile tribe, leading the delivery of cutting-edge solutions around various concerns including Order Management, Sourcing, Picking, Packing, Delivery, Returns, Supply Chain, Routing, Inventory, Warehousing, Customer Feedback and more.
- Collaborate with other Technical Leads and Solution Architect to help them create and maintain a robust architectural framework to support the technical ecosystem.
- Bring best-in-class engineering practices, and lead by example to get the team to spend the time to build well throughout incremental iterations.
- Coordinate and collaborate with the Product & Engineering team to understand problems and develop innovative solutions that will form the basis of our new modern architecture.
- prioritizing the optimal technology set in a particular project
- research papers analysis
- hands-on implementation of the crucial solution pieces
- supporting and mentoring data science and engineering teams

**Skills**

- research and paper analysis
- explanation and presentation
- algorithms, machine learning, and engineering
- advanced English
- documentation development

**Knowledge**

- in-depth Vehicle Routing Problem knowledge
- state of the art last mile technology solutions delivery trend

**Experience**

- MSc / Ph.D. degree in Computer Science
- algorithmic / machine learning solutions delivery in the Logistics domain (3+ years)

**We Offer**

- Scientific or engineering challenges
- Work with disruptive deep-tech startups
- Work with the rock stars (senior-level engineers, Ph.D.)
- Meaningful social and environmental projects
- Two options for our cooperation, and people have the opportunity to make their own choice of how they engage in work-related projects and tasks.
- Transparent, professional growth plan depending on your impact
- Remote work from any location
- Flexible working hours
- Unpaid unlimited personal time off
- Regular Team Buildings & company-wide team events

**Terms & conditions**
Allocation: 40-80 h/month