[Hiring] Industrial AI Decision Scientist @IFF

Role Description

Develop and apply data-driven decision models, optimization techniques, and machine learning to improve manufacturing, supply chain, planning, inventory, and operational performance. IFF is seeking an Industrial AI Decision Scientist to improve complex decisions across manufacturing, supply chain, planning, logistics, inventory, R&D, and industrial operations through mathematical optimization, simulation, machine learning, and advanced analytics. The role will partner with scientists, engineers, planners, operational teams, and digital specialists to translate complex industrial challenges into practical decision models. This includes recommending actions, evaluating scenarios, quantifying trade-offs, and optimizing performance under real operational constraints and uncertainty. The position may be filled at a junior or senior level, depending on the candidate’s experience, technical depth, and demonstrated impact.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, Process Systems Engineering, Supply Chain, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• Experience applying mathematical modeling, optimization, simulation, forecasting, statistics, machine learning, or operations research to practical problems.
• Ability to translate ambiguous scientific, engineering, or business questions into decision variables, objectives, constraints, assumptions, and performance measures.
• Hands-on programming experience in Python or another language used for optimization, simulation, analytics, or scientific computing.
• Knowledge of methods such as linear or mixed-integer programming, nonlinear optimization, stochastic or robust optimization, Bayesian optimization, Monte Carlo simulation, discrete-event simulation, forecasting, or predictive analytics.
• Experience working with manufacturing, planning, inventory, supply chain, laboratory, quality, transactional, or time-series data.
• Ability to validate models and communicate assumptions, uncertainty, sensitivity, trade-offs, limitations, and practical implications.
• A collaborative and delivery-oriented mindset with a strong focus on measurable value, explainability, trust, and adoption.
• Candidates may demonstrate these capabilities through academic research, internships, industrial projects, or professional experience. Senior candidates should also demonstrate independent project leadership and operational impact.

Requirements

• Develop industrial decision models
• Optimize manufacturing and batch processes
• Improve supply chain and operational decisions
• Embed decision science into operational workflows

Benefits

• Experience applying decision science in biomanufacturing, industrial operations, supply chain, planning, logistics, inventory, fermentation, or batch chemical processes.
• Experience with optimization tools such as Gurobi, IBM ILOG CPLEX, FICO Xpress, Google ORTools, Pyomo, JuMP, PuLP, or CVXPY.
• Experience with production scheduling, inventory policy design, network optimization, simulation, digital twins, design of experiments, or optimization under uncertainty.
• Experience integrating analytical models with SAP, MES, LIMS, manufacturing historians, planning systems, or cloud data platforms.
• Experience developing reusable decision products rather than only one-time analyses or exploratory models.
• Experience combining optimization and simulation models with AI agents, large language models, natural-language interfaces, or knowledge systems.
• Demonstrated ability to translate sophisticated analytical models into recommendations that operational teams understand, trust, and use.

Company Description

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more.