Open position - Optimization expert with Jeppesen, Sweden

Optimization Expert to Jeppesen Gothenburg

Jeppesen’s crew and fleet solutions are mainly developed in Gothenburg, but with significant support from our offices in Montreal, Singapore, and New York. Jeppesen has more than 3,500 employees worldwide and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, USA. Founded on the production of aeronautical charts, the company celebrated 75 years of guiding pilots safely to their destinations in 2009.

Jeppesen is a subsidiary of Boeing, the world’s leading aerospace company. Boeing is headquartered in Chicago, U.S.A., employing more than 160 000 people in 70 countries.
The successful candidate is goal-oriented and enjoys problem-solving, but still has an eye on the big picture. He or she must work well in an agile team and be very communicative and open. An interest in optimization and algorithms is a given. A strong software development background, especially in Object-Oriented programming is required. The new team member  will be working with highly talented and experienced developers, having regular interaction with the other development teams, installation projects and clients.
The successful candidate is goal-oriented and enjoys problem-solving, but still has an eye on the big picture. He or she must work well in an agile team and be very communicative and open. An interest in optimization and algorithms is a given. A strong software development background, especially in Object-Oriented programming is required. The new team member  will be working with highly talented and experienced developers, having regular interaction with the other development teams, installation projects and clients.
• PhD in Optimization/OR (or MSc + minimum 3 years of experience from developing similar applications) 
• Strong C/C++ skills
Meriting Experience
• Airline or Railway applications
• Simulation packages
• Statistical analysis
• Data mining 
• Python
Jeppesen Technology Services
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Jeppesen is looking to further strengthen the research and development team in airline crew and fleet optimization. We are solving some of the hardest combinatorial optimization problems you can imagine – in one of the most exciting and dynamic industries you can find. Delivering maximum value to our clients requires creativity, innovation and hard work. We believe there is no alternative to being number One – and that everyone can make a difference!

At Jeppesen in Gothenburg, over 300 employees from over 30 countries develop, implement and support cutting-edge resource optimization systems for airlines and railways. Clients include world-leading companies like Lufthansa, SAS, British Airways, Singapore Airlines, Delta Airlines, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Deutsche Bahn, Green Cargo and Qantas. Jeppesen has pioneered several new methods and algorithms for solving large, complex optimization problems, and has received significant recognition both in industry and academia, the latest by being awarded the INFORMS Prize in 2010.

As an Optimization Expert you will work with mathematical modeling, algorithmic development and performance tuning as well as taking part in research, design, implementation, testing and maintenance.

Requirements

Last day of application will be December 31, 2012.

Applications are only accepted through the Company website:

http://careers.jeppesen.com/JobDescription.asp?JobNumber=692783&lang=en

Tomas Gustafsson

Optimization & Research Strategist Crew & Fleet

SAS Summer Fellowship in Operations Research

The Operations Research Development department at SAS is pleased to announce the annual SAS Summer Fellowship in Operations Research Program for the summer of 2013. Open to doctoral candidates in operations research, industrial engineering, computer science, applied mathematics and related graduate departments in the United States, the fellowship offers the opportunity to assist in the support of research and development in areas of operations research.  The Operations Research fellow will contribute to activities such as literature review and research, implementation of numerical algorithms and software application development and/or testing and documentation.  Specific areas of interest are mathematical optimization, constraint programming and large scale network algorithms.  The program thus provides the graduate student with an excellent opportunity to explore software development as a career choice.

Eligible candidates must have completed at least two years of graduate work by the end of the spring semester of 2013, and must have demonstrated programming experience in low level languages like C, C++, Java, and knowledge of standard operating systems.

The program provides a salary and stipend for a twelve-week internship at SAS headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, during the summer of 2013. Interested candidates should apply online at the SAS careers site. To apply, go tohttp://www.sas.com/jobs/USjobs/# and select Fellowship Opportunities. The OR Fellowship is requisition # 12003018.

The deadline for submitting your application and attaching a letter of recommendation from two faculty members is February 1, 2013. The selected candidate will be notified by March 1, 2013.

SAS is located in the Research Triangle area, which encompasses three leading universities – Duke, the University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State University – and is also the home of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute. Ample intellectual and leisure pursuits exist to make this an exciting opportunity for the chosen student.