# Operations Research Scientist

Come help us build the world's most reliable on-demand logistics engine for delivery! We're bringing on experienced scientists/engineers to help us create the real-time logistics platform that powers DoorDash’s three-sided marketplace of consumers, merchants, and dashers. You will be reporting to an Operations Research manager and this will be a hybrid role. About the Role Operations Research Scientists on the Assignment team have the opportunity to dive into a wealth of logistics data, and use advanced optimization and machine learning techniques to maximize the value for our consumers, dashers, merchants, and DoorDash. You will be reporting to an Operations Research manager and this will be a hybrid role. You're excited about this opportunity because you will... Design and implement new algorithm components within our production dispatching system to meet emerging requirements Integrate state-of-the-art optimization and machine learning techniques to improve the efficiency and quality of our dispatching decisions Extract insights from logistics system through analyzing data and modeling and translate those insights into production algorithm components Collaborate with engineers,

- **Id**: 3886437
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/doordash-operations-research-scientist>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-03-25T14:18:22Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T10:16:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 230
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8361
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Engineering, Delivery, Marketplaces

## Company

- **Id**: 3685
- **Name**: DoorDash
- **Domain**: doordash.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/doordash-usa>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 81
- **Ghost share**: 0.012
- **Stale share**: 0.593
- **Repost share**: 0.012
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 66
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 229

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T19:47:21Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 504 · green card filings: 110; Filings 12m: 504

## Liveness

- **Score**: 9
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.308
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 229
- **Expected fill days**: 66
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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