Operations Researcher Job (Niskayuna,)

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Software Sciences and Analytics is developing and applying innovative computing technology and analytics to address many global challenges. These technologies impact our world in areas such as: better delivery of healthcare services to individuals, improved decisioning to create a smarter energy grid, and optimized equipment services and operations. Domains of interest span equipment optimization, financial risk management, hospital optimization, home health delivery, remote monitoring and diagnostics, and market growth tools. Our core disciplines include computer science, statistics, artificial intelligence, operations research, high performance computing and quantitative finance.

At GE Global Research, we’re redefining what’s possible. From cutting-edge research in molecular pathology for use in personalized cancer diagnostics to programs in coal gasification and renewable power that drive clean energy solutions, our work at Global Research is world-renowned. As part of our team, you’ll find yourself among nearly 3,000 scientists and engineers from every discipline in a dynamic atmosphere where you’ll be constantly challenged to learn and grow. You’ll have access to leaders on all levels of the organization and collaborate across the globe with the very best in the field. If you have an insatiable intellectual curiosity and the ability to articulate your vision, then join us and watch the work you do create the next generation of products and processes that will impact the globe for generations to come.

At GE Global Research we redefine what’s possible, finding answers to some of the world’s toughest problems. Find out more at www.ge.com/research, and connect with our technologists at http://www.edisonsdesk.com and http://twitter.com/edisonsdesk

GE’s Management Sciences Lab asserts that businesses are complex systems that can be designed and operated for higher customer value creation, more assured. We study the structure of business-physical systems to solve important and real problems of our time. Examples are the design of and operational decision support for hospital throughput and safety, electrical grid power generation assets and demand management, airline flight and ground operations, rail network and yard throughput, green asset design and use such as vehicles, wind, solar, building systems, manufacturing and supply chain systems, financial services automation, oil and gas extraction and management, water systems and the key value enabling questions from many other of GE’s globally reaching businesses. We focus on how assets are used in the structure of these complex systems – assets that GE makes and services as the OEM – and build solutions around them. We are building the operations optimization capability for GE’s Industrial Internet and the commercial business models to monetize that value such as performance based contracts.

We are seeking colleagues who desire to build a long term GE Research career in applied R&D who will become GE’s key scientists and engineers at the intersection of engineered physical and business systems. Our Lab contains Industrial and Systems Engineers and Operations Researchers. We are strong in simulation [discrete event, agent and continuous/system dynamics], math programming and hybrid methods.

As an Operation Researcher, you will:

• Work with GE Businesses and Business Partners in delivering actionable decision support solutions to real and theoretical problems.
  
• Work with technology vendors to benchmark emerging and disruptive innovations for GE application areas.
  
• Research and develop tools and processes to improve analytical methods, performance, scale, and sophistication of algorithms, simulations, and systems. An example is enabling Operations Optimization for GE’s Industrial Internet.
  
• Collaborate with world-class talent in many disciplines touched by computing needs, most specifically in system characterization using closed and open form (simulation) analytics.
  
• Communicate progress and results of research initiatives with business leaders, customers, and technology providers.

GE’s Management Sciences Lab asserts that businesses are complex systems that can be designed and operated for higher customer value creation, more assured. We study the structure of business-physical systems to solve important and real problems of our time. Examples are the design of and operational decision support for hospital throughput and safety, electrical grid power generation assets and demand management, airline flight and ground operations, rail network and yard throughput, green asset design and use such as vehicles, wind, solar, building systems, manufacturing and supply chain systems, financial services automation, oil and gas extraction and management, water systems and the key value enabling questions from many other of GE’s globally reaching businesses. We focus on how assets are used in the structure of these complex systems – assets that GE makes and services as the OEM – and build solutions around them. We are building the operations optimization capability for GE’s Industrial Internet and the commercial business models to monetize that value such as performance based contracts.

We are seeking colleagues who desire to build a long term GE Research career in applied R&D who will become GE’s key scientists and engineers at the intersection of engineered physical and business systems. Our Lab contains Industrial and Systems Engineers and Operations Researchers. We are strong in simulation [discrete event, agent and continuous/system dynamics], math programming and hybrid methods.

As an Operation Researcher, you will:

• Work with GE Businesses and Business Partners in delivering actionable decision support solutions to real and theoretical problems.
  
• Work with technology vendors to benchmark emerging and disruptive innovations for GE application areas.
  
• Research and develop tools and processes to improve analytical methods, performance, scale, and sophistication of algorithms, simulations, and systems. An example is enabling Operations Optimization for GE’s Industrial Internet.
  
• Collaborate with world-class talent in many disciplines touched by computing needs, most specifically in system characterization using closed and open form (simulation) analytics.
  
• Communicate progress and results of research initiatives with business leaders, customers, and technology providers.

• Ability to formulate practical analytical solutions and rapidly prototype decision support systems.
• Proficient use of analytical tools such as Matlab & R, commercial math program solvers such as CPLEX & Gurobi, modeling languages, and simulation packages such as AnyLogic to solve practical problems.
• Knowledge of software languages, specifically Java, Python, C++ with expertise in at least one
• Strong record of academic or professional publishing.
• Demonstrated knowledge in one or more domain where the described research will occur in, examples including Energy production and distribution such as in Smart Grid, Flight Management, Hospital Operations, Oil & Gas production, Rail Networks
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, System Dynamics, ME, EE, IE Engineering, MBA.
• Strong interpersonal & analytical skills.
• Ability to work across all functions/levels as part of a team and to energize others.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to articulate innovative ideas to senior management and strategic business partners.

This position is eligible for The Employee Referral Program.

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