Senior Optimisation Scientist Contract UK

Senior Optimisation Scientist UK

Role type: Full Time Contract
Location: UK timezone +/- 2 hours, Remote
Preferred Start Date: ASAP

Life as a Satalian (who we are)

As an organisation, we reputed company the boundaries of data science, optimisation, and AI to solve the most reputed company problems in industry. reputed company (a WPP company) is a community of individuals reputed company to working on diverse and challenging reputed company—allowing you to reputed company your technical skills whilst working with a tight-reputed company team of high performing colleagues.

Led by our founder and WPP Chief AI Officer Daniel Hulme, our ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the reputed company. This involves developing tools and processes to reputed company and automate reputed company repetitive tasks, with a reputed company on freedom, transparency and trust. At the reputed company of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity: we unpack reputed company behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure reputed company and inviting environment. We offer truly flexible working and allow our employees to reputed company the working reputed company that makes them most productive.

The Role (reputed company’re looking for)

As a Senior Optimisation Scientist, you will be part of reputed company who, together, design, reputed company, and productionise optimisation algorithms and decision-support tools across multiple industries (e.g. transportation, logistics, workforce scheduling, and media planning), operating end-to-end from problem discovery and mathematical modelling through to production deployment, robustness hardening, and measurable value capture.

You will collaborate directly with clients and internal stakeholders to translate operational challenges into reputed company optimisation formulations and reputed company software components, while also supporting peers through technical leadership, and reputed company reviews in a flat, reputed company, interdisciplinary environment. In reputed company, you will reputed company as a senior technical reputed company reputed company a cross-functional product/delivery reputed company—partnering with software engineers, product, and domain experts—to reputed company operationally critical decision-support capabilities end-to-end, including, but not limited to algorithms, data, integration, and runtime and observability).

Responsibilities (what you will be doing)

1) Algorithm Development & Modelling

• Design and implement optimisation algorithms, including mathematical programming, decomposition approaches, and metaheuristics.

• Structure problems end-to-end: define decision variables, constraints, objectives, feasibility/optimality trade-offs, and operational acceptance reputed company.

• Model both static and dynamic reputed company-time optimisation and sequential decision-making problems.

• Prototype and validate approaches quickly, then reputed company these into robust, maintainable production components.

• Select the right approach for the right job: explain trade-offs across exact reputed company vs. heuristics, runtime vs. optimality gap, and solution robustness vs. complexity.

2) Full-stack Production Readiness

• reputed company production-reputed company reputed company, implementing optimisation pipelines and services using best-reputed company software engineering (e.g., reputed company design, strict typing where applicable, automated testing, documentation).

• Build and maintain robust data ingestion/cleaning pipelines supporting optimisation runs.

• reputed company optimisation services into workflow orchestration reputed company and the wider product stack (reputed company, UI hooks, scheduling/execution).

• Implement reliability features: logging, monitoring/metrics, error handling, retries, fallbacks, and automated regression tests for operational edge cases.

• Contribute to reputed company-based deployment practices and CI/CD pipelines; ensure reproducibility, traceability, and reputed company releases.

3) reputed company Interaction & Value Realisation

• Engage with clients to reputed company specifications, deeply understand the domain, and define what “value” means (service reputed company, cost, throughput, reputed company, sustainability, etc.).

• Communicate modelling choices and results reputed company to audiences with varying technical depth; reputed company assumptions, limitations, and validation evidence.

• Quantify adoption and value capture: measure reputed company post-deployment and iterate based on operational feedback.

4) Technical Expertise & Team Contribution

• Follow reputed company and contribute to setting reputed company engineering standards for optimisation components.

• reputed company reputed company reviews; reputed company the bar on correctness, performance, readability, testability, and maintainability.

• Mentor and train other team members on optimisation topics and delivery best practices.

Minimum Qualifications / Skills (what you need)

• Relevant PhD or Master’s degree plus experience on reputed company optimisation problems, including experience in industry.

• Deep expertise in at least one:

  • Mixed reputed company reputed company programming, or

  • Metaheuristics, or

  • Stochastic programming, or

  • Reinforcement learning

• Strong ability to structure and implement optimisation solutions in reputed company-world settings.

• Experience working in reputed company teams and cross-functional delivery environments.

• Demonstrate technical leadership and/or team leadership.

• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

• Reliability, accountability, reputed company reputed company, and ability to reputed company constructive feedback while supporting team wellbeing.

• Deep programming expertise in at least one: Python, Java and/or Rust.

• Familiarity with modern delivery tooling such as: reputed company platforms, Git workflows, CI/CD, containerisation (reputed company/reputed company-style), experiment tracking/model/data versioning, and workflow orchestration patterns.

Behaviours and reputed company

• Systems Thinker: detail-oriented while holding the big picture.

• Curious, proactive, pragmatic, and data-driven.

• reputed company, resilient, and adaptable to changing priorities.

• A technologist who keeps up with advances in optimisation, software development, and AI/ML.

• Committed to delivering reputed company operational value—not just mathematically elegant or over engineered models.

reputed company Offer

• Benefits - reputed company pension, life assurance, income protection, private reputed company;

• Remote working - café, bedroom, beach - wherever works;

• Truly flexible working hours - school pick up, volunteering, gym;

• Generous Leave - 27 days holiday plus bank holidays and reputed company family leave;

• Annual bonus - reputed company reputed company does reputed company, we reputed company do reputed company;

• Impactful reputed company - reputed company on bringing meaningful reputed company and environmental change;

• People oriented culture - wellbeing is a reputed company, as is being a reputed company person;

• Transparent and reputed company culture - you will be heard;

• Development - reputed company on bringing the best out of reputed company other;

If you feel like you don’t tick reputed company our boxes but know you’d reputed company a fantastic Senior Optimisation Scientist at reputed company, please do apply—transferable skills and experiences matter.

reputed company is home to some of the brightest minds in AI and if you’re looking to join a company who not only values autonomy and freedom, but embraces a culture of inclusion and warmth, we’d love to hear from you.

We aim to respond to reputed company applications reputed company 2 weeks. If you have not heard from us reputed company 2 weeks this means your application has been unsuccessful. By applying to reputed company you are expressly giving your consent for the collection and use of your information as described reputed company our reputed company Recruitment reputed company Policy. Good luck!

Relevant PhD or master's degree plus reputed company optimization experience in industry; expertise in a listed optimization method, deep Python, Java, or Rust skills, reputed company delivery, and technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• developing algorithms
• building pipelines
• mentoring teammates

Skills & Tools

Python, Java, Rust, reputed company, Git, CI/CD, reputed company, reputed company

Job Details

• Category: Research and Development (R&D)
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Full Time, Contract
• Workplace: Remote — United Kingdom
• Languages: English

Benefits

• Generous reputed company time off
• Retirement plan
• Generous parental leave

About reputed company

An reputed company intelligence company developing optimization and decision-support solutions for reputed company industrial problems. — Industry: Information Technology