THE ROLE AND THE TEAM

As an Applied Scientist, you will conduct and guide algorithmic-research driven software development. We process millions of customer orders every week and our systems make fundamental scheduling, planning, and routing decisions within our warehouses. You will be improving the warehouse efficiency by solving a stochastic optimization problem, at the crossroads of combinatorial optimization and data-science. Our research pipeline enables fast incremental improvements which together with the scale of our decisions has a direct impact on the productivity of our warehouses.
Please read more about our department here:
https://jobs.zalando.com/en/blog/logistics-tech-capabilities-at-zalando

WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)

• Contribute to research, design and implementation of algorithms to improve our algorithmic framework
• Deliver end-to-end solutions and set the bar for the whole development cycle that includes research, prototyping, implementing production software, as well as testing and operating the highly available production system
• Influence our research and development methodologies to foster a scalable and data-driven architecture