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Flexport Trucking is looking for a creative, technically-minded Senior Research Scientist who is motivated to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems in the Trucking industry.
Flexport Trucking’s Convoy Platform is the nation’s leading digital freight network. We build technology to find smarter ways to connect brokers and shippers with carriers, solving some of the toughest problems in the 800-billion-dollar freight industry. Our interconnected network and platform capabilities enable the movement of millions of truckloads across the country - saving money for shippers and brokers, increasing earnings for drivers, and avoiding unnecessary carbon waste for our planet. Come learn what it’s like to work on complex problems in a massive industry at the center of our economy.
Research Science is at the core of Flexport Trucking’s Convoy Platform. We build models that power freight pricing, shipment relevance engines matching shipments and drivers, auction bidding strategy, and other core services. We also forecast business metrics, evaluate the causal impact of business decisions, design statistical and machine learning models to optimize our product, and leverage our data to generate insights for our customers. The breadth of the problem space is huge, spanning machine learning, optimization, causal inference, experimental design, and econometrics domains. We have only begun to dig into the difficult and diverse problems in our two-sided marketplace.
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Research Scientist to contribute to the development of new Science-powered features within our marketplace, including but not limited to expanding our best-in-class auction mechanisms to better service our diverse broker and carrier base, developing algorithms for workforce planning and management to staff Flexport operations team, building fraud prevention and risk management systems to safeguard Convoy’s carrier network, producing load recommendations for carriers within the app, etc.
Successful Flexporters share these traits:
Don’t be! Our mission is to make global trade easy for everyone. That’s why it’s important to bring people from diverse backgrounds and experiences together with our industry veterans to help move the global logistics industry forward.
We know this industry is complex. That’s why we invest in education starting day one with Flexport Academy, a one week intensive onboarding program designed specifically to set every new Flexport employee up for success.
Full Time
Transportation
$126k-156k (estimate)
03/16/2024
06/27/2024
flexport.com
CHICAGO, IL
500 - 1,000
2013
Private
NEEL J SHAH
$200M - $500M
Transportation
Flexport is a freight forwarder and customs broker that offers businesses visibility and control over their supply chain through a cloud-based logistics platform.