Research Scientist - Dorval, Canada - Air Canada
Description
Description
Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.
Key Functions:
- Use optimization techniques to formulate, solve business problems, and build inhouse decisionsupport systems.
- Perform quantitative, economic, and numerical analysis of the performance of these systems to find both exact and heuristic solution strategies for optimization problems.
- Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies.
- Investigate the conflict behind infeasible datasets and add appropriate handling to resolve such infeasibilities.
- Establish processes for largescale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.
- Develops complex models and algorithms that drive innovation throughout the organization.
- Can objectively weigh tradeoffs of different algorithms and models.
- Guide data engineering efforts to ensure alignment with future optimization engine needs.
- Performing quality assessments of analytical solutions, particularly simulation and optimization models.
- Lead requirement and systems analysis efforts, including translating business requirements into quantitative mathematical models.
- Establish and maintain effective business relationships.
Qualifications
- A Master's Degree or PhD in Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or Quantitative Methods and/or relevant experience commensurate to the role.
- Proficiency in using one of the commercial solvers like Cplex, Gurobi, or Fico Xpress, or noncommercial solvers like Coin-OR or SCIP.
- Strong background in optimization techniques to solve Mixed Integer Programming (MIP), Quadratic Programming (QP), or Non-Linear Programming (NLP).
- Fluency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g. Python, Java, C, C++, C#).
- Experience in SQL and querying large datasets.
- Familiarity with Network Optimization, Large Scale Neighborhood Search.
- Familiarity with Machine Learning models and algorithms.
- Excellent presentation and verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex analytical concepts to people from other fields.
- Selfmotivated and highly independent.
- Strong problem solving and data analysis skills.
Conditions of Employment:
Linguistic Requirements
Diversity and Inclusion
Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees' unique contributions to our company's success.
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