Job Description

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers based in Ottawa, Canada. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, and support 40,000+ users in over 100 countries. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries. We are expanding our team in Chennai and around the world as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Our journey in India began in 2020 and we have been growing steadily since then! Building a high-trust and high-performance culture is important to us and we are proud to be Great Place to Work® CertifiedTM. Our state-of-the-art office, located in the World Trade Centre in Chennai, offers our growing team space for expansion and collaboration.

Location
Chennai, India

About The Team
The AI team is responsible for delivering machine learning solutions in the supply and demand space for verticals such as Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, Life Sciences etc. This includes problems in the space of forecasting, optimization, replenishment, recommendation, explainability, and more. The uniqueness of the team is that it performs at the intersection of technology and real business problems. You will contribute to the product that delights customers world-wide!

What you will do

• You are passionate about testing and shipping large-scale software systems in a fast-paced environment, but you can balance longer term issues such as maintainability, scalability and quality.
• You have a strong interest in testing, troubleshooting, debugging problems, integrating software end to end, building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure, excited about finding ways to automate and improve development and release processes while mentoring other developers.
• You’re fluent in Python object-oriented development and in the cloud. In addition to working with modern data storage, familiarity with Kubernetes, docker and have hands-on experience with big data technologies. You have the ability and enthusiasm to learn new technologies whether they are infrastructure or language or platform, and easily adapt to change.
• You are a team player, a quick starter and a problem solver. As well as comfortable talking requirements with product managers. You work well in a cross-functional team and can listen and contribute to discussions. Ideally provide readily available solutions while considering technical aspects, effort, and risk. Your primary focus is shipping large-scale machine learning software that drives customer value by building robust, scalable and data-intensive systems.

Technologies we use

• Retail business background with supply chain knowledge
• Familiarity with Deep Learning techniques such as network architectures, transformers, embeddings, regularizations, optimization strategies, transfer learning, distillation, etc.
• Familiarity with release processes for Enterprise products
• Solid background in Machine Learning fundamentals, statistical methods for ML, Bayesian methods, parametric and non-parametric methods, variational inference, generative models, stochastic processes, model explainability, etc.

What we are looking for

• BE/BTech or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field with focus in machine learning.
• Total of 6+ years industry experience with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in ML enterprise software development and testing.
• Good software engineering skills
• Strong background in writing automation scripts using PyTest or equivalent.
• Ability to work in Linux environments and in the cloud with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo, Helm).
• Disciplined approach to software testing including unit and integration test as well as CI/CD.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and can easily articulate complex concepts in writing and speech.
• Experience working with at least one major cloud technologies (AWS, Azure or GCP)