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You will turn vague business questions into well-defined, measurable modeling problems and take solutions all the way to production.\nKey Responsibilities\nTranslate business questions from planning, operations and sales into modelable problems with clear success metrics.\nBuild demand forecasting models, including for irregular and sparse demand.\nFormulate and solve optimization problems with LP/MIP solvers, and use simulation to test scenarios.\nDeploy, version, monitor and retrain models in production, working closely with data engineering.\nBuild and maintain APIs and services (Python, FastAPI) on a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP), following security best practices.\nRequirements\nSolid classical ML and statistics: regression, trees and boosting, regularization, probability and prediction intervals.\nCorrect validation, including temporal backtesting without data leakage, and metrics tied to business goals.\nTime series and demand forecasting, with the judgment to know when a simple baseline beats a complex model.\nOperations research: formulating problems as optimization and solving them with Pyomo, OR-Tools, PuLP or similar. 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