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Founding Operations Research Engineer (Full Time)

Haladir
San Francisco, CA
Full Time
Compensation
$150,000–$220,000/year

Job Description

Role Description:

You will aid in designing the optimization core of Haladir’s products, including the models that decide how waves get released, how inventory gets allocated, how routing occurs within trucking networks, and how labor gets planned inside 3PL operations. Our approach combines practical heuristics, including local search and hill climbing, with solver-based methods such as MILP and constraint programming where they are the right tool.

You will take messy operational constraints from real customers and turn them into formulations and systems that run in production under real-world deadlines. You will work closely with operators to understand how decisions are actually made, determine what should be optimized, and build models that can make those decisions reliably at scale.

This is applied research with execution authority. Your models will make decisions that operators act on the same day.

This role offers greater autonomy and closer collaboration with the founding team than other positions.

Required Qualifications:

  • Strong background in Operations Research, including MILP, constraint programming, heuristics, and local search

  • Research experience in Operations Research through publications, graduate research, or equivalent applied work

  • Able to implement your own models in production-quality Python using solver APIs such as Gurobi, CP-SAT, or HiGHS

  • Able to turn real-world operational constraints into mathematical models that can run in production

  • Strong judgment around solution quality, computational performance, and real-world operational constraints

  • Willingness to relocate to San Francisco and travel to customer sites

  • US work authorization

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Currently enrolled or finished MS or PhD in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field

  • Domain experience in warehousing, routing, scheduling, or supply chain

  • Experience deploying optimization models in live operational environments

  • US citizen

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Job Details

Category
Research
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
San Francisco, CA
Posted
Compensation
$150,000 - $220,000 per year

About Haladir

Haladir is the operational AI layer for logistics. We unify and structure data across WMS, TMS, OMS, etc., and embed solver-grade optimization, ML models, RL environments for frontier AI labs, and forecasting into the decisions that power supply chains. Today's AI brought intelligence. The next frontier is judgement. We define operational superintelligence as AI that consistently makes maximally-optimal operational decisions in complex environments. The first component is speed: continuous decisions that take operations managers and OR analysts weeks to make, in seconds. The second is reliability: every decision is guaranteed to satisfy operational constraints. The third is scope: optimize across thousands of constraints no human or team could possibly reason about.

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