Senior Algorithms Researcher

Via is using technology to transform transportation around the world. From changing a single person’s daily commute to reducing humanity’s collective environmental footprint — we’ve got huge goals.

As an Senior Algorithms Researcher at Via, you'll join a team that explores the vast collection of relevant data and creates the optimization algorithms that drive Via's mass scale, complex, multi-dimensional automated dispatch.

What You'll Do:

• Mathematically model the competing demands on Via's system.
• Develop online algorithms for real-time decision-making, focusing on optimizing system utilization while maintaining a high quality of service for riders.
• Design and implement highly efficient and scalable algorithmic solutions to power decision-making systems under large-scale, real-world operational demands.
• Use sophisticated statistical methods to analyze demand, traffic and fleet performance, and generate insights that inform algorithm development.

Who You Are:

• M.Sc./PhD Computer Science / Mathematics / Physics or similar
• Significant academic research experience in relevant fields.
• Extensive knowledge of algorithms, with a focus on graph theory and combinatorial optimization.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience designing, developing and deploying production‑grade algorithms-must.
• Analytical: you can extract the essential features of a complex real-life problem to arrive at a simple and relevant mathematical model.
• Experience in Python programming - Advantage.
• Fast learner: you can quickly master concepts, disciplines and methods.
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills.
• Hands-on: you are able to realize your ideas in code.

Compensation and Benefits

• Our product impacts millions of users around the world  providing alternative transport solutions that are more: efficient and accessible, changing cities to make them greener.
• Competitive compensation package which includes base salary and equity
• Health insurance with a discount for family members
• Hybrid work and a lovely office situated in the heart of TLV, in Midtown, close to the light rail and train station
• Career development and growth opportunities
• Other perks: Freefit and other sports lessons, 10bis/Cibus - you choose!, happy hours, team events, communities and many more benefits

We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. We’re driven by a simple mission: to create modern and efficient public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs, healthcare, and education. With our best in class suite of products, we make transit thrive. 

Our teams of worldclass engineers, data-scientists, product managers, operations specialists, marketers, transit experts and more bring cutting-edge AI-powered software and innovative technology-enabled operations to our partners across the globe. Founded in 2012, Via builds solutions to digitize, automate, and enable data-driven decision making for entire transportation networks; fixed-route buses, microtransit, paratransit, school buses, autonomous vehicles, and more. 

If you’re excited to be at the forefront of modernizing the future of transportation, are up for solving tough problems, and willing to become/already are a transit nerd, we are the place for you. Even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description for this role, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities. 

Ready to join the ride?

Via is an equal opportunity employer.