Senior Data Scientist (m/f/d) Operations Research

Growing AI scale-up for the retail sector in Berlin: You own the stochastic optimization behind ordering and inventory policy and bring mathematical programming into live operation.

Ihre Aufgaben

• You take ownership of the stochastic optimization behind ordering and inventory policy in a growing AI scale-up for the retail sector and model newsvendor tradeoffs for production use
• You bring constraint and mathematical programming into live operation and help build the inventory simulator and the ordering framework
• You continuously advance the automated ordering system and safeguard end-to-end pipeline quality, from data quality through to the live order recommendation
• You own the monitoring of your models in production and ensure robust, transparent results
• You write production-ready code in Python and SQL on a modern cloud and data stack (GCP with BigQuery, Cloud Run, Vertex AI; dbt, Airflow/Cloud Composer, Git, CI/CD)
• You use agentic AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor in your daily work
• You collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Sales and Customer Operations every day and take on technical ownership early as part of a central data science team

Ihr Profil

• You have a genuine operations research background
• You are strong in stochastic optimization, in ordering and replenishment policy, newsvendor tradeoffs as well as constraint or mathematical programming
• You have demonstrably brought these methods into production and not only applied them in research
• You hold a completed master’s degree in a quantitative field (a PhD is welcome)
• You command Python and SQL at production level
• You are confident working with a modern cloud and data stack, ideally GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Run, Vertex AI), dbt and Airflow/Cloud Composer
• You ideally bring experience from supply chain, demand planning or the field of perishable goods
• You ideally bring experience from a startup or scale-up environment
• You value an environment with high intensity and personal ownership and thrive in dynamic growth phases rather than in rigid nine-to-five structures
• You have fluent English as your working language; German is not required

Ihre Vorteile

• You receive an attractive compensation package including equity participation (VSOP)
• Home-Office possibilities
• 30 vacation days
• You receive individual relocation support if you are moving to Berlin

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