Co-Op/Intern Developer, AI Platform

At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.

Every day, we’re empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.

We make the world better, and you can too.

Co-op/Intern Developer, AI Platform

Job location: our office in Toronto, Canada or Remote, Canada (EST)

Term Length: 8 or 12 Months starting January 2022

About the team

Join us in delivering the Machine Learning platform that will unlock the potential of our Data Science teams and enable accelerating velocity in our delivery of ML solutions to market.  Come join us in the confluence of AI and Software Engineering – and along the way learn and develop skills that will similarly accelerate the arc of your professional career.  Our platform embraces both public cloud providers as well as the on-premise support our customers demand. Being deployment environment agnostic in this manner imposes significant challenges, as does developing the platform that allows our Data Science teams to focus on their considerable strengths while enabling collaborative solution exploration that will get them better models sooner.    

Over the past three years, we have been able to connect with over 150,000 retail point of sales location in 10 countries and create a database of over $100 billion in first party retail transactional data. And the numbers are only growing - but we have much more to do! 

Let the ML Platform team be where you start to learn all the things they don’t teach you at school, mentored by our very collaborative, supportive and diverse team.

What you will do

• Work with modern foundational technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Github and Github Actions, Spark, RDBMs like Postgresql and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, all under the framework of our organizational Scrum deployment
• Maintain and enhance our Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipeline
• Extend our significant investments in automated testing, as well as helping us stand up wholly new service offerings, all the while working shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of our cross-functional team
• Perform other duties as assigned

What we are looking for

• Self-motivated, independent, and proactive
• Willingness to learn new skills and ramp up quickly
• Excellent software engineer/development skills/experience

Things that would definitely help

• Knowledge of Python (Django and Flask), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Cloud Services (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Understanding of Agile Methodologies
• Understanding of the ML Lifecycle
• MLOps using Microservice Frameworks, Queuing Systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka), Event-based Processing, and Web Services

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/.

Kinaxis strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply to our welcoming community. We strive to make our website and application process accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact Human Resources at accommodations@kinaxis.com. This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.