What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployment Engineer position at Kinaxis Inc.?
About Kinaxis
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 role
We are looking for AI-native builders who partner with customers, rapidly prototype data and AI solutions, and convert repeated wins into scalable product capabilities.
This role sits at the intersection of engineering, data, and real-world problem solving. You will work in small, high-impact PODs alongside domain experts and product teams to solve complex, ambiguous problems and turn them into working systems fast.
Experience: 4–8 years of relevant software engineering experience.What you will do
- Build and deploy end-to-end data and AI applications to solve real-world problems, from messy inputs to production-ready solutions.
- Work in small POD teams with domain experts and stakeholders to rapidly understand problems and deliver usable solutions.
- Design and implement data pipelines and integrations, owning the full lifecycle from ingestion and transformation to serving and monitoring.
- Develop agentic AI applications (RAG, multi-agent workflows, tool use) and integrate them into business processes.
- Iterate quickly, prototype, test in real environments, refine, and scale what works.
- Identify repeatable patterns across deployments and bring those learnings back into product and platform teams.
- Take ownership of delivery outcomes, ensuring systems meet business goals like SLAs, reliability, and efficiency, not just technical completion.
- Debug and improve systems across the stack - data, models, APIs, and infrastructure and in real-world environments.
What we are looking for
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience building and shipping production systems in enterprise environments.
- Proven ability to rapidly prototype and build production-oriented applications using modern AI-assisted development tools and agentic coding workflows (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor).
- Hands-on experience with modern data platforms like Snowflake or Databricks, including building scalable ingestion, transformation, and serving pipelines for structured and unstructured/multimodal data
- Ability to architect and build data and integration pipelines using tools like Airflow, Kafka, or similar systems.
- Experience building data-driven applications, not just pipelines and turning data into usable systems.
- Familiarity with agentic AI patterns, RAG systems, and LLM-based applications, including prompt and context engineering.
- Strong debugging skills and ability to work with imperfect, real-world data and systems.
- Experience building enterprise-grade applications with appropriate security, governance, observability, and operational best practices.
- High ownership and bias to action, you move things forward without waiting for perfect clarity.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments where problems are not fully defined upfront.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams.
How You Will Succeed in This Role
- You focus on outcomes over output—success is measured by impact (e.g., efficiency gains, cost savings, SLA improvements) and not lines of code.
- You bring field learnings back into the product, helping scale what works.
- You operate with high agency, you unblock yourself, adapt quickly, and take ownership end-to-end.
- You are curious and pragmatic, constantly exploring new technologies and applying them where they create real value.
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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when 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 Ford, Unilever, Yamaha, P&G, Lockheed-Martin, 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 we’re 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
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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