Recently graduated and now working in industry? Career Starter gives eligible professionals a full AMPL license with access to all supported solvers for 1 year at no cost.
*For eligible graduates within 24 months of graduation.
Starting a new role shouldn’t mean losing access to the optimization tools you already know. Career Starter gives eligible graduates a professional AMPL and commercial solver environment for their first year in industry.
Build and solve real-world optimization models without restrictions on the number of variables or constraints.
Work with the solver technologies (e.g. Gurobi, CPLEX, COPT, Knitro, NVIDIA cuOpt) supported through your Career Starter license.
Activate your personal AMPL license across supported development environments using AMPL's cloud licensing system.
Continue working with AMPL directly or through Python, VS Code, Jupyter, notebooks and supported data environments.
AMPL Career Starter provides the core tools needed to formulate optimization problems, connect data, work with Python, and test and refine different solver approaches.
Career Starter is intended for recent graduates who completed their studies within the last 24 months and are now employed by a company or other organization where they can use AMPL in their work. Applicants must no longer be current students.
You should have completed your degree or academic program within the last 24 months at the time you apply.
No. Career Starter is designed for graduates who have completed their studies and moved into the workforce. Current students should use AMPL’s academic licensing options instead.
Yes. Career Starter is intended for recent graduates who are currently working within a company or other organization and can use AMPL as part of their professional work.
Career Starter is not intended for individuals who are between roles or currently seeking employment. You can apply once you are working in an eligible professional role.
Career Starter is intended primarily for recent graduates working within an employing organization rather than independently. If your situation is unusual, you can still submit a request with additional details for review.
Career paths do not always fit neatly into standard categories. If you graduated recently and are now using or planning to use optimization within an organization, you may still submit a request and provide the relevant details. AMPL reviews Career Starter requests individually and may consider circumstances beyond the general eligibility guidelines.
Career Starter includes a full AMPL license and access to supported commercial and open-source solvers for 12 months. This license also includes the extensive integrated ecosystem of Python, VS Code, data connections, deployment methods and more. This is the same licensing and features as the commercially distributed AMPL and solver licenses.
Career Starter provides access to AMPL’s supported solver ecosystem, including commercial and open-source solvers available through the program.
Commercial solvers: Gurobi, CPLEX, COPT, Mosek, FICO Xpress, Artley’s Knitro, CONOPT, LOQO, MINOS, SNOPT, Baron, LGO, and LINDO Global
Open Source: NVIDIA cuOpt, HiGHS, SCIP, GCG, CBC, Couenne, IPOPT, Bonmin, Gecode
No. Career Starter provides full AMPL capabilities and is intended for real-world professional modeling rather than limited educational or evaluation use.
The Career Starter license is valid for 1 year (12 months) from activation.
Yes. Career Starter is a single-user cloud license issued to the approved individual. For additional licenses, other qualified applicants can apply for their own individual license, or team members can purchase commercial AMPL and solver licenses directly.
Yes. Career Starter is specifically designed to help recent graduates apply AMPL to real-world optimization problems in their professional roles.
No. The license is assigned to the individual Career Starter participant and is not intended to be shared across a team or organization.
Yes. Models built with the Career Starter license can be deployed and shared.
Submit a Career Starter request through the AMPL Portal. You will be asked for information about your graduation and current professional role so AMPL can review your eligibility.
AMPL reviews Career Starter requests based on the program guidelines and the information provided in your application.
Career Starter is intended as a one-year bridge into professional use of AMPL. Before the license expires, you can explore the appropriate AMPL licensing options for continued use within your organization.
Graduates within the last 24 months and now working in an organization can get a full AMPL license with commercial solvers for your professional work.
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