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Quantitative Researcher, IOI Index

Oway· Engineering, Data science
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$220k - $320kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Build the first real-time index of the physical economy (IOI) and price capacity for freight and other physical assets, from research through production, working closely with the founder and engineering leads.

Responsibilities

  • Model the market. Price capacity from quotes, conversions, carrier acceptance, telemetry, and market rate data.
  • Optimize the trade-off. Balance win probability and margin together, with well-calibrated uncertainty.
  • Solve cold start. Price new lanes and regions with little or no history by learning across geography, freight class, and equipment.
  • Close the loop. Design the experiments and feedback systems that let the index learn from every outcome.
  • Ship to production. Serve prices within tight latency budgets inside live rate APIs, and monitor for drift and data failures.
  • Extend the index. Generalize pricing from freight to other forms of physical capacity on IOI.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years building pricing, forecasting, or trading models that ran in production with real money on the line. Relevant PhD research counts.
  • An advanced degree in a quantitative field is a plus.

Skills

Required:Probabilistic and Bayesian modelingPricing, auction, or market microstructure modelingMachine learning for tabular and time-series dataCausal inference and experiment designPythonSQLProduction model deploymentGeospatial and network data modelingCommunication of model behavior
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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The First AI Infrastructure Layer for America’s Empty Truck Space

Oway is an AI-driven freight platform that turns America’s empty truck space into a new category of freight shipping. Every year 50% of U.S. truck space goes unused, a $100B+ inefficiency. Oway uses AI to automatically price, match, and sell that space in real time, giving businesses freight shipping that is dramatically faster and cheaper than traditional options. We're building the largest decentralized network of America’s empty truck space - a transparent infrastructure layer any shipper, broker, or carrier can plug into. For shippers, this means freight costs that are up to 50% lower than traditional LTL (shipments from 1 to 12 pallets), along with faster delivery windows because freight moves directly from dock to dock without the slow handoffs, warehouses, or cross-docking infrastructure that LTL depends on. For carriers, Oway’s integration can increase annual revenues by up to 30% with minimal impact on existing schedules. They simply earn more by monetizing space that would have gone unused. Our mission is to transform empty truck space into an asset that strengthens U.S. competitiveness. By lowering the cost of goods sold, we help businesses grow. By improving carrier margins, we make trucking more sustainable. And by digitizing and decentralizing freight, we are laying the foundation for a resilient, transparent logistics layer that can support America’s reindustrialization in the decades ahead. Oway makes freight shipping as simple as ridesharing - click a button, book a truck, and move goods at the true cost of available capacity.

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