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From changing a single person’s daily commute to reducing humanity’s collective environmental footprint - we’ve got huge goals.\nAs an Algorithm Researcher at Via, you’ll join our R&D center in London, as part of the Core R&D group, which is responsible for developing and maintaining Via’s proprietary algorithms and the services that run them in production. The role sits at the intersection of algorithm development, data science, and software engineering. You’ll work on complex algorithmic problems, explore and evaluate different approaches, and turn your solutions into reliable production systems that support Via’s transportation networks around the world. 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