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You’ll join a diverse, experienced team with rapidly growing scope while working with one of the industry’s most valuable autonomous vehicle datasets.\nIn this role, you will:\nDesign, prototype, and help deploy algorithms for vehicle assignment, staging, routing, and pricing\nModel the inputs to orchestration (rider demand, data-collection value, servicing needs, events, and policies) as objectives and constraints\nWork with specialists in marketplace economics, forecasting, and autonomy to turn their models into decisions the fleet acts on\nMeasure impact on revenue, utilization, and rider experience through simulation, offline evaluation, and online experiments\nContribute to how we evaluate and roll out orchestration improvements\nQualifications\nPhD or MS with 2+ years of relevant industry or research experience, in operations research, robotics, controls, transportation, computer science, applied math, or a related field\nDeep expertise in at least one of: combinatorial/integer optimization, stochastic optimization or control, reinforcement learning/approximate DP, network flows, or marketplace/demand modeling, plus the curiosity to work across the rest\nStrong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust; 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