Location:  Boston, MA

About Wayfair: Wayfair is a publicly traded e-commerce company that offers an extensive selection of home furnishings and décor across all styles and price points.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

LEADERs Opportunity:

Wayfair is seeking energetic, curious and action-oriented PhD students with an interest in a career in Operations Research for summer internship positions. Our current team members have diverse skill sets across quantitative sciences, analytics, math and engineering with a focus on logistics and supply chain. They are dedicated to solving some of the most analytically challenging problems here at Wayfair.

Operations Research Scientist

Our Operations Research Scientists take on complex optimization projects that have immediate impact on our operations. We seek an individual who can think through creative strategies to develop and execute solutions to keep Wayfair efficient as we scale. The successful candidate will work with our team of operations research scientists and engineers to tackle large-scale and real-time optimization problems in our supply chain and beyond, including network design, transportation & vehicle routing, warehouse & inventory management, global network optimization, and many others.

We are looking for an individual capable of thinking outside of the box about operational challenges, who wants to try new approaches and challenge traditional models – all while focusing on bringing a best-in-class experience to our global customers.

What You’ll Do | Responsibilities

Working on the Operations Research team allows you to have the opportunity to play a critical role in a growing company while also operating with a high level of executive visibility. The team is focused on creating strategic solutions that steer customer behavior, influence key decision making and quantify our impact within the e-commerce space. Our diverse and fun employees enjoy an environment of strong ownership and quick feedback from building, experimenting and iterating on high-impact work.

• Develop production software tools
• Work cross-functionally with business stakeholders to determine requirements
• Coordinate with other engineering teams

Disciplines: Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science

What You’ll Need | Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program with a strong academic track record
• Currently obtaining a degree focused within either Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
• Strong knowledge of linear programming and mixed-integer programming
• Experience implementing models with AMPL, R, Matlab, or similar tools
• Experience using Python, C++, Java, or similar languages
• Familiarity with data analysis