Firestorm Labs
Staff Data Scientist, Optimization
$175K–$220K
San Diego, United States · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years, or 6+ years with a PhD.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. person required due to ITAR. Export-control eligibility includes U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or otherwise eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State or Department of Commerce authorizations.
About the job
Own and build the optimization and decision-science models powering Crucible, Firestorm’s software for planning and executing production across its manufacturing network.
What you'll do
- Formulate and solve production planning, allocation, sourcing, inventory, scheduling, and manufacturing network problems.
- Validate optimization models against real data and work with software engineers to deploy them in production.
- Set technical direction for decision science and collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, and product teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building optimization, operations research, or data science solutions for complex operational problems, or 6+ with a PhD.
- Strong mathematical optimization background and hands-on experience with optimization tools such as Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools, or Pyomo.
- Strong Python and SQL, including production-quality code; strong statistical fundamentals and experience with uncertain data.
- U.S. person status or eligibility to obtain required export-control authorizations; demonstrated technical leadership and ability to take ambiguous problems through deployment.
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in a related quantitative field.
- Experience in production planning, supply chain, logistics, inventory optimization, manufacturing, simulation, stochastic or robust optimization, or aerospace, defense, UAS, or automotive.
Pay
USD 175,000 – 220,000 base salary
Tools
Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools, Pyomo, Python, SQL
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