Senior Machine Learning Scientist / Data Engineer - Logistics Algorithms (all genders)

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About the Team Wenn Sie glauben, dass Sie für die folgende Stelle geeignet sind, bewerben Sie sich, nachdem Sie die vollständige Beschreibung gelesen haben. As a Senior ML Scientist / Data Engineer, you will drive algorithmic research‑driven software development in a logistics team.

Your strengths extend to your ability to effectively collaborate within an agile and cross‑functional team environment, engaging with engineers, product owners, and fellow applied scientists. At Zalando, we process millions of customer orders every week and our systems make critical scheduling, planning, and routing decisions within our warehouses.

Predictive warehousing allows us to preemptively take actions that improve 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. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status.

You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.

We want to provide you with a great candidate experience; feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process. do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy Our employee resource groups We'd Love You to Do Drive the research, design, and implementation of algorithms and predictive models.

Deliver end‑to‑end solutions and set the bar for the entire development cycle, which 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.

Support and coach other Applied Scientists by sharing your knowledge and expertise in applied research. We'd Love to Meet You If You hold a Master’s or PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, or another quantitative field, together with industry experience in algorithm‑related software development in Java, Kotlin, Python, or similar.

Your professional background includes hands‑on experience with state‑of‑the‑art methods in software engineering, particularly microservice architecture and distributed systems for data processing (e.g., Spark, Databricks).

You demonstrate a practical understanding of various advanced algorithmic techniques (e.g., from combinatorics, graph theory), mathematical modeling (e.g., from operations research, statistics, experimentation), and machine learning approaches (e.g., forecasting, Bayesian networks).

You exhibit a high degree of autonomy to translate real‑world business cases into mathematical problems, with a proven record of at least six years of applied research experience. Want to know what kind of problems you will be working on?

You can find on this Google doc a stochastic optimization problem that showcases an example. xayajpt If you like solving mathematical puzzles, send us your solution instead of uploading a cover letter.

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