Operations Research Scientist, Optimization

United States, Georgia, Atlanta

Enterprise Digital Strategy

21-Mar-2025

Ref #: 27809

How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)

Enterprise Solutions (ES) is seeking a highly motivated, intellectually curious, and talented Operations Research (OR) Scientist to join a team that is responsible for optimizing Delta's revenue offers. The OR scientist will collaborate on designing, delivering, and maintaining proprietary optimization products that result in improved customer offers and increased revenue for Delta Air Lines. The role partners across Digital, Revenue Management, Pricing, Global Pricing Distribution, Operations Research, IT, and vendors to identify opportunities, define requirements, provide insights, prototype products, and deliver end-to-end solutions.

Responsibilities

• Understand the interrelationships between Schedules, Pricing, and Revenue Management, and the combined impact on the Delta Customer experience
• Identify commercial opportunities that can be addressed by developing data sources, methods, tools and models to optimize Delta revenue, including statistics and optimization modeling
• Enhance existing analytical tools and develop new solutions/tools based on large data sets
• Own and deliver end-to-end solutions
• Promote the long-term customer offer vision that supports Delta's business strategy as the marketplace evolves and new products are introduced
• Actively develop close relations and coordinate with commercial business units, Operations Research, Finance, IT and senior management to ensure timely execution of ES sponsored projects
• Maintain a pulse on industry efforts and disruptive technologies, and champion solutions to further Delta's position as industry leader
• Balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  
  

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

Benefits

Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:

• Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives.
• 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%.
• New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1 – March 31).
• In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period.
• 10 paid holidays per calendar year.
• Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave.
• Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits.
• Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages.
• Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health.
• Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members.
• Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals.
• World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint.
• Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies.
• Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together.
• Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare.
  
  

What You Need To Succeed (minimum Qualifications)

• Master's degree or equivalent in operations research, statistics, computer science, or related science field.
• Highly proficient communication skills and ability to actively advocate for ES solutions across the enterprise
• Experience with data scripting languages (e.g. SQL, Python, R etc.) and optimization software (e.g. Gurobi, Xpress, or Cplex.).
• Experience using one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, C , C, etc.).
• Experience with big data: processing, filtering, and presenting large quantities of data.
• Proven success in modeling complex quantitative problems, especially using MIP.
• Must have the ability to work well with diverse groups in a time sensitive and team environment with minimal supervision, be results oriented and capable of meeting or exceeding deadlines with attention to detail and follow through.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects through to solution delivery.
• Strong focus on building team culture and driving collaboration across the broader organization
• Must be performing satisfactorily in present position.
• Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
• Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
  
  

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (preferred Qualifications)

• Ph.D. in operations research, statistics, computer science, or related science field.
• Experience with MIP, time series modeling, and data structures and algorithms.
• 2 years of industry experience in data science or operations research.
• Demonstrated business acumen and/or Revenue Management experience
  
  

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