Staff Software Developer, AIML

Kinaxis

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profile Job Location:

Toronto - Canada

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 12 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

About Kinaxis

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

In 1984 we started out as a team of three engineers. Today we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canadas Top Employers we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

At Kinaxis we power the worlds supply chains to help preserve the planets resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management we enable supply chain excellence for all industries with more than 40000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Location

our offices in Ottawa and Toronto (Hybrid)

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!
Kinaxis is seeking a talented and passionate Machine Learning Staff Developer to join our Machine Learning
team. Your work will directly impact our enterprise-grade AI software platform and solutions which are used
by hundreds of customers worldwide to manage their supply chains.

Vacancy Status

This is an existing job vacancy

What you will do

All aspects of the machine learning software development life cycle are familiar to you. You are passionate about shipping large-scale software systems in a fast-paced environment but you can balance longer term issues such as maintainability scalability and quality. Youre fluent in Python object-oriented development and in the 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 language or platform and easily adapt to change. You will define drive design and build/ship end-to-end solutions that not only solve real customer problems but also create automated ML-based solutions to orchestrate our customers supply chains including architectural design relevant design documentation test planning and execution.
You will contribute to the end-to-end AI/ML software development lifecycle ensuring reproducible research and state-of-the-art results for our customers. You will drive architecture design and delivery of advanced ML systems in the Product R&D team. Oversee the work of junior developers and actively engage team members to develop their skills and build shared ownership across the code base. Proactively engages outside of team to unblock other team members while progressing their own technical assignments.

What we are looking for

  • Cloud & Managed Services Engineering: Proven expertise in designing provisioning deploying and operating large-scale systems on AWS Azure or GCP. Strong hands-on experience with Docker Kubernetes (managed via Argo CD Helm or similar) infrastructure automation using Terraform and distributed systems.
  • Agentic & Modern AI Frameworks: Practical experience building solutions using agentic AI patterns RAG vector databases and orchestration frameworks like LangGraph/Google ADK/OpenAI Agent SDK including prompt engineering and context engineering for production of the agentic workflows.
  • End-to-End ML/AI Software Development: Extensive experience developing robust ML-driven systems with Python and modern data tooling. Skilled in debugging optimizing testing and delivering production-quality software.
  • Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Ability to guide architecture mentor developers and drive high-quality engineering decisions across teams.
  • Technical Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills suitable for both technical and non-technical audiences. Operate as a technical advisor to managers/leaders.
  • AI Driven Software Development: Experience in leveraging agentic software development tools - such as GitHub Copilot Claude Code or other autonomous agents - to accelerate delivery of new features and resolution of issues.
  • Education: Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Experience: 5-7 years of experience in software engineering machine learning or related fields.

Nice to Have

  • Domain Knowledge: Experience with supply chain or manufacturing systems.
  • Strong CS Foundations: Solid grounding in algorithms data structures linear algebra probability and optimization.
  • Workflow Orchestration: Experience with tools such as Argo Workflows or similar.

Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the worlds supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every daywhen we see store shelves stocked when medications are available for our loved ones and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin Yamaha P&G Honda and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices talent assessment training materials and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and were committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:

  • Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
  • Flexible work options
  • Physical and mental well-being programs
  • Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
  • Mentorship programs and training and career development
  • Recognition programs and referral rewards
  • Hackathons

Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation please reach out to us at Please note that this contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description to identify candidates whose education experience and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening all subsequent decisions regarding your application including final selection are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.


Required Experience:

Staff IC

About Kinaxis Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech but its really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such were serious about your career growth and professional development because People matter at Kinax...
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Key Skills

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Revolutionize supply chain management with Kinaxis. Get end-to-end transparency to make fast, collaborative decisions with the power of concurrency.

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