Software Engineer, Operations Research (Manufacturing)

Location: Remote anywhere, or from offices in London or Cambridge, UK, with regular visits to factories in the UK and US.

Salary: UK £80k–£125k per year; US $125k–$250k per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is building The Grid, a factory-scale robotics platform for efficient small-batch, high-mix electronics manufacturing.

What you will do

• Schedule orders, panels, and machines across factories to improve throughput and on-time delivery.
• Model production flows through movers, gantries, printers, ovens, and other factory equipment to identify bottlenecks and evaluate capacity changes.
• Estimate labour, machine-time, and parts costs to support pricing and customer lead-time decisions.
• Optimize parts and consumables inventory, purchasing timing, and shortage-risk trade-offs.
• Deploy models into planning and quoting systems, and compare predictions with actual production outcomes.

Requirements

• Quantitative background in operations research, applied mathematics, statistics, quantitative finance, economics, or a similar field, with a record of models influencing real decisions.
• Experience with linear programming, integer programming, constraint programming, or heuristics, including judgment about when simple rules outperform a solver.
• Experience building and calibrating simulations and forecasts for complex systems and assessing their reliability.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with the ability to write reliable, runnable code.
• Experience using coding agents and ownership of the resulting work.
• Curiosity about physical manufacturing processes and willingness to spend time in factories in the US and UK.

Nice to have

• Manufacturing experience is welcome but not required.
• Experience pricing risk, optimizing portfolios, or forecasting demand.

Culture & Benefits

• Work remotely from anywhere, or from the London or Cambridge offices.
• Regular visits to hirify.global factories in the UK and US.
• Models are deployed into live planning and quoting systems rather than remaining in spreadsheets.
• Stack includes Python, OR-Tools, simulation, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, Claude Code, and Codex.
• Compensation includes equity.