Senior Software Engineer, Optimization and Mathematical Modelling
Role Overview
Senior Software Engineer owning problems end to end, from data and formulation to production solvers at customer sites.
The role works with customer engineering teams and Qamia founders.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Qamia
Qamia builds a platform that transforms enterprise historical data and problem descriptions into mathematical models and solves them using classical and hybrid quantum-classical optimizers.
The company works with organizations in industries including telecom, aviation, and energy.
Role overview
Senior Software Engineer owning problems end to end, from data and formulation to production solvers at customer sites.
The role works with customer engineering teams and Qamia founders.
Responsibilities
- Translate customer business problems into mathematical models and select solution approaches.
- Build and tune high-performance optimization solvers and build and operate platform backend services.
- Ensure AI-generated models are correct and high quality.
- Deploy and support the platform in customer environments, including on-premise.
Basic qualifications
- PhD in Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field, or a Master’s degree and 5+ years of equivalent industry experience.
- 3+ years building and operating production backend systems.
- Experience formulating and solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems.
- Proficiency in C++ and Python.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with solvers such as Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools, or HiGHS and decomposition methods.
- Experience with metaheuristics or GPU-accelerated optimization, or with stochastic or robust optimization.
- Experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, and a major cloud platform.
- Experience building LLM-based agents or tool-calling systems.
- Familiarity with quantum computing or hybrid quantum-classical solvers.
- Strong communication with technical and executive audiences; Arabic is a plus.
Application
- The posting requests a CV and cover letter by October 5, 2026.
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