Senior Software Engineers-Optimization

At Jeppesen we create amazing software that helps millions of passengers around the world to safely and efficiently reach their destination. Look up in the sky and you will see a quarter of a million crew members on thousands of aircraft, flying schedules produced by our software.

We are currently recruiting to two positions:

Position within flight planning:
Every commercial airline flight begins with a flight plan. The flight plan calculations have to comply with safety and regulatory requirements, while providing airlines with an opportunity for cost optimization by enabling them to determine the optimal route, altitudes, speeds, and amount of fuel to load on an airplane. At the core of the flight planning optimization system is the aircraft performance module, which combines fundamental laws of physics with advanced mathematical approximation techniques to provide a fast and accurate model of the aircraft during all phases of flight.

Working in the flight planning optimization team, you will be responsible for the aircraft performance module. The tasks will include analyzing performance data for the new aircraft types and developing tools for data processing and automated testing. You will explore algorithmic and engineering techniques to continuously improve the speed and accuracy of aircraft performance computation, and contribute with your knowledge and expertise to the work of the multinational multidisciplinary team striving for excellence in delivering customer value.

Position within crew pairing optimization:
The scheduling of crew for large airlines is a very complex problem, and is therefore broken down into several smaller problems that are solved sequentially. The crew pairing problem is about creating sequences of flights (pairings) for yet unnamed crew members, taking into account regulatory rules, resource limits etc.

In the pairing optimization team, you will be working with the team responsible for the core optimization module that is common for all customers using our pairing optimization product. The tasks will consist of everything from mathematical modeling and design to implementation, testing, performance tuning and maintenance.

Both positions require the successful candidate to be an expert C++ developer with good engineering judgment and a passion for solving hard problems. An interest in optimization and algorithms is a given. You should be goal-oriented and dare to take initiative. You are also expected to combine technical excellence with above average communication skills.

Requirements
-MSc with minimum 5 years of working experience
-Strong C++ skills

Meriting Experience
-PhD in Optimization or Physics
-Airline or Railway applications
-Large and technically complex code bases
-Working knowledge of the physof flight 1*

We look forward to leveraging your knowledge and experience to improve our products even more.

Please send us your application, together with any supporting information such as your GitHub alias, hobby projects, LinkedIn profile or your blog address. In your application, please let us know if you favor any of the positions. We look forward to receiving your application before October 9th, 2015.

For questions about this position, please contact Martin Andersson, at [email protected], or on +46 719 34 50. Please note that we do NOT accept applications mailed directly to Martin.

1* Applies to the position within flight planning only