Senior Data Scientist Engineer - Otimização - Mercado Envios

As a Senior Data Scientist Engineer at Mercado Livre, you will design and scale innovative and secure systems that solve real and high-impact problems.

Requirements

• Working with the team to develop mathematical models, (meta)heuristics, approximate algorithms, and new approaches to tackle present and future optimization problems in the Delivery Market, with a focus on Inventory Optimization challenges (e.g., stock positioning, allocation between distribution centers, and replenishment planning).
• Developing and applying machine learning models to support inventory and logistics decisions, such as forecasting, reinforcement learning, scoring models, and clustering/segmentation.
• Deepening your knowledge of technical literature (scientific articles and books) to contribute to making Mercado Livre a reference in the area in Latin America, both in Operations Research and Optimization and Machine Learning applied to inventory and distribution problems.
• Working with business and product teams, acting on formulating business problems and proposing and building analytical solutions that generate value for users and Mercado Livre.
• Supporting customer-facing areas in analyzing and interpreting model results, translating technical outputs into clear and actionable recommendations.
• Engaging users with a focus on operational efficiency, propagating analytical culture, and decision support, showing how predictive (ML) and prescriptive (optimization) models can be integrated into daily operations.