About Kinaxis

Kinaxis is the global leader in modern supply chain management. We serve supply chains and the people who manage them in service of humanity. Our software is trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today?۪s volatility and disruption. We combine our patented concurrency technique with a human-centered approach to AI to empower businesses of all sizes to orchestrate their end-to-end supply chain network, from multi-year strategic planning through down-to-the-second execution and last-mile delivery. For more news and information, please visit kinaxis.com or follow us on LinkedIn .

Senior Machine Learning Developer (12 Months Term)
Location: Ottawa-Hybrid; Other Canadian Locations-Remote

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

All aspects of the machine learning development life cycle are familiar to you. You are passionate about shipping large-scale software systems in a fast-paced environment but are able to balance longer term issues such as maintainability, scalability and quality.

You have worked with machine learning and data analysis libraries but realize building a machine learning system is much more than just calling a few APIs. You have a strong interest in 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor?۪s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field with focus in machine learning.
• Strong software engineering skills with a minimum of 3 years experience in ML enterprise software development.
• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and relational data with experience writing, debugging and optimizing ML data structures, pipelines and transformations, with Python/Pandas/SQL and various ML Libs.
• Ability to work in *nix environments and in the cloud with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo, Helm).
• Proven understanding and experience of distributed computing architectures.
• 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.
  
  

Nice To Have

• Retail business background with supply chain understanding.
• SaaS, and multi-tenant platforms development experience (microservice frameworks, queuing systems, event-based processing and web services).
• Experience working with major cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
  
  

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What we have to offer

• Challenging Work - We love solving highly complex problems. And as the global leaders in our industry, we never stop innovating???our work is never ???done. That?۪s because across our teams and in all roles, every employee is empowered to bring their best ideas forward and to jump in and solve the problems they?۪re passionate about.
• Great People - We take our work seriously, but we don?۪t take ourselves too seriously! It?۪s in our DNA to celebrate, laugh, and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open, honest, and above all, real. Every person is valued here and plays an important role in our shared success.
• Global Impact - As a global team spanning continents, boundaries, and cultures, every day we are inspired by the impact our work has on our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world at large.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than words to us. They are the guiding principles for building a culture where we celebrate each others?۪ differences, continuously strive for equality and recognize that inclusion makes us stronger as individuals, a company and a global citizen.
  
  

For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company?۪s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com/ .

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