Optimization Engineer – Commercial

Job overview

The Optimization Engineer – Commercial role is listed in Las Vegas, NV. Compensation is $80,000–$100,000 per year. The role partners with Allegiant’s Commercial Data Science team to integrate predictive models into prescriptive processes. The engineer turns commercial decisions into model-based solutions that improve profitability and automate manual processes. The work combines operations research and software engineering to build, evaluate, and support reliable decision tools and production workflows.

What you'll do

• Formulate airline commercial decision problems as quantitative models
• build and improve Python-based optimization models
• evaluate model features and assumptions through back-testing, experiments, or simulation
• collaborate with Commercial Data Science on machine learning solutions
• extract and transform data using Python and SQL
• troubleshoot production data and model issues
• implement improvements to robustness, monitoring, and error handling
• communicate results and trade-offs
• refactor systems to improve automation, performance, and maintainability.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

optimization engineer

commercial

las vegas nv

allegiant

operations research

python

sql

optimization models

data science

airline economics

$80k–$100k

visa sponsorship not available

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Profit sharing
• medical, dental, vision, and life/disability insurance
• medical travel reimbursement
• legal, identity, and pet insurance
• 401(k) with employer match
• employee stock purchase plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• flight benefits
• paid vacation, holidays, and sick time.

Why this role

Visa sponsorship is not available. The posting requires a bachelor’s degree in a related quantitative field and at least two years of technical experience; airline economics experience and commercial solver familiarity are preferred.

About the employer

Allegiant is hiring for this role. Industry: Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation. Sector: 48.