Staff Applied Scientist

🕒 June 11

🏈 Alabama, California, +19 more states – Remote

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💵 $191.8k - $287.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Afresh

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Food & Beverage • Logistics • Consulting

Afresh is a technology company that provides innovative solutions for the fresh food grocery sector. Their platform leverages cutting-edge machine learning to optimize ordering, inventory management, and reduce food waste, helping grocery teams to manage fresh produce more efficiently. Afresh aims to transform grocery store operations with best-in-class technology, ensuring fresher displays, faster inventory turns, and increased sales. By enhancing operational efficiency and accuracy, Afresh supports grocers in sustainability goals like reducing greenhouse gas emissions and water usage. The company is committed to sustainably nourishing the world with fresh food.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction for core replenishment R&D. • Model complex problems such as inventory decay, promotions, price elasticity, and inventory uncertainty. • Drive fundamental changes to our core system from research through production. • Lead research and development for new product and business challenges. • Mentor scientists and engineers, set standards for experimental rigor.

🎯 Requirements

• MS or PhD in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience. • For candidates with an MS, 8+ years of industry experience; for candidates with a PhD, 4+ years of industry experience. • Experience researching and building systems that support large-scale decision making under uncertainty. • Prior experience in areas such as inventory optimization, supply chain management, network optimization, forecasting, game theory, decision analysis, stochastic optimization, approximate dynamic programming, or related fields is a plus. • Excellent communication and presentation skills. • Ability to independently deliver high quality software implementations of your solutions in the Python data stack (numpy/torch/pandas/etc).

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with the majority of premiums covered by Afresh. • Dedicated mental health support and counseling services. • Competitive base salary, meaningful equity (U.S. employees), and a 401(k) program with a generous company match. • Home office stipend and "Coworking Wallets" for flexible workspace access. • Annual professional development budget to master new skills and grow your career at Afresh. • Monthly stipends for "Betterment" (wellness/lifestyle) and telecommunications.