Operations Research Engineer (m/f/d)

The Role: What to expect

We're looking for an Operations Research Engineer (m/f/d) to help build and sharpen the core of our Industrial Robotics Fleet Management System. You'll work collaboratively with international colleagues to design, develop, and test the core services that coordinate robots in production facilities worldwide. This is applied OR: the value of your work shows up directly in the operations of live customers.

Role Responsibilities: What you will do

• Develop and optimize Real-Time Pickup and Delivery Task Scheduling, Multi-Robot Coordination, and other essential components of our Fleet Management System.
• Design optimization models for heterogeneous fleets of robots in varying operational contexts including manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics, while adapting them as new customer challenges arise.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of internal tools used by teams across the company.
• Collaborate with colleagues across disciplines to meet project milestones and deliver high-quality features on schedule.
• Demonstrate autonomy in managing your own work, and take strategic initiatives to improve the product.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

Essential Qualifications:

• You can model a scheduling or routing problem, choose sensibly between exact and heuristic approaches, and explain the tradeoffs behind your decisions.
• Proficient in Python, C++, Rust or similar programming languages.
• Practical knowledge of Docker, Git, and Linux.
• Hands-on with a solver or optimization framework: Google OR-Tools, Gurobi, Timefold, or similar.
• Comfortable working asynchronously within a distributed team.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience with real-time, multi-robot, or vehicle-routing / pickup-and-delivery problems.
• Familiarity with our stack: Rust, Java, Python, Redis, RabbitMQ, AWS.
• Published or applied research in Operations Research, multi-robot coordination, or related areas.
• A habit of following new OR and ML approaches, paired with the judgment to know when they're actually worth adopting.

Why idealworks

• At idealworks, you will find an international working environment and become part of an experienced, open team where mutual trust counts. You will feel at home from the very first second!
• Experience a first-hand start-up feeling and flat hierarchies with varied and responsible tasks that you work on independently.
• Look forward to hybrid working model with 30 vacation days per year and various opportunities to balance your free time, family and job.
• For your commitment to helping us achieve our mission, you will not only be rewarded with appreciation, but also competitive pay including a bonus scheme and an annual personal development budget.
• We offer exciting corporate benefits, an attractive company pension scheme and regular team events.
• Our modern office is easily accessible by public transport, bike and car and offers numerous catering options for relaxed lunch breaks with your team.
• Driven by our unique corporate culture, the five values: passion for results, wellbeing, personal growth, trust and being and acting as one team. All determine our daily actions and cooperation.

About us

Idealworks transforms industrial operations into efficient, fully automated environments where logistics, robotics, software, and people work seamlessly together. Founded in 2020 as a BMW Group subsidiary, the company helps businesses optimize and automate workflows across warehouses, production facilities, and logistics operations. At the core of its offering is the Idealworks Orchestration System (Idealworks OS), the control layer that integrates simulation technology and connects heterogeneous robots for different applications, peripheral devices, and IT systems through a single operational logic. Headquartered in Munich, Idealworks collaborates closely with partners and customers worldwide to advance the next generation of industrial automation.