Operations Analyst

About the role

Divergent is a technology company based in Los Angeles, dedicated to building the 21st-century industrial base with its proprietary Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS™). We automate the design, manufacture, and assembly of complex structures using non-design specific software, additive manufacturing, and robotic assembly. Our products are superior in performance, lower in cost, and can be rapidly customized to meet mission and customer-specific requirements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to define, implement, and operationalize a measurement framework that translates raw data into structured parameters - revealing operational efficiency, quality, and financial insights.
• Standardize our inputs/outputs across models to create continuity between forecasting, scheduling, cost, and pricing.
• Extend, tune, and maintain a discrete-event simulation that drives factory performance, forecasts demand, and simulates factory scaling scenarios.
• Prototype 0 à 1 parameterized data models and internal tools - including optimization tools, state machines, dashboards and simulation models that drive behavior across floor level operators, managers and executives.
• Collaborate with factory operations and engineering teams to identify tool gaps and scope and drive internal and external tool implementations.
• Collaborate with factory data teams to identify data gaps and scope and drive projects to connect factory sensors, equipment, MES, ERP, and other operational systems.
• Drive projects through discovery, requirement definition, data backed proposal, functional prototyping, and formal implementation - including business case modeling and ROI justification for internal or external tool investments.
• Conduct a broad range of ad-hoc analysis spanning from process efficiency to complex scenario analyses that inform scheduling, staffing, and investment decisions.
• Create presentations, visual workflows, diagrams, and prototypes to communicate complex problems clearly and align stakeholders in a common direction.
• Clean, validate, and prepare data for analysis and simulation.
• Document systems, pipelines, and assumptions clearly to enable scaling.

Requirements

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics, Operations Research, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Strong proficiency in Python (pandas, NumPy, data pipelines, APIs, light scripting)
• Strong proficiency in SQL and relational data modeling
• Experience in front-end HTML development and web hosting
• Strong proficiency in descriptive and diagnostic analysis, basic statistics, and visualization
• Demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing terminology and operational data modeling (cycle time, yield, throughput)
• Familiarity with basic financial concepts and modeling
• Familiarity with MES/ERP/SCADA (OPC-UA, MTConnect, MES/ERP systems, Splunk, InfluxDB)
• Familiarity with operations research / optimization methods (OR Tools, Optuna)
• Familiarity with statistical / machine-learning fundamentals and simulation frameworks (SimPy, AnyLogic)

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications
• Preferred Qualifications

Pay

At Divergent, our pay range is based on the level of the job. For Specialist 04 / S04, the range is $100,170.00 - $137,730.00.

Benefits

What We Offer: - Holistic Compensation Package: Competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities. - Wellness and Time Off: Paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown. - Comprehensive Health and Wellness: HMO and Premium PPO options, company-sponsored life insurance, and short and long-term disability coverage. - Investment in Growth: Reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives. - Collaborative and High-Performing Environment: Fast-paced, mission-driven team fostering innovation and integrating people and technology to reduce the footprint.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Divergent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected characteristic.

EEO Poster

Right to Work: Our company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate’s eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9).

Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO)

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.