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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. 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 Canada’s 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 world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s 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 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.
Our offices in Ottawa and Toronto – hybrid; other Canadian locations – remote.
About The Team Algorithm Developers at Kinaxis create algorithms to optimize supply chains. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture, and making a global impact. Every day, we are 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 Maestro 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. Our customers have terabytes of data that needs to be analyzed for the largest supply chains imaginable.
What you will do
Investigate novel techniques combining class leading heuristics with optimization
Translate real world Supply Chain Management use cases into mathematical models
Lead the design and implementation of the mathematical model
Define test strategies and develop comprehensive test plans
Write unit testing, integration testing, and debugging to ensure robust and error-free software
Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for functional, regression, and performance testing using testing frameworks and tools
Collaborate closely with your agile team members and other stakeholders
Shape the future direction of Kinaxis as we move into new markets
Technologies we use
C++ for core development
Commercial mathematical solvers
Maestro’s market leading in-memory data server technology
Visual Studio, JIRA, Confluence, Git
Sophisticated internal testing tools to validate correctness and performance
Virtual and cloud infrastructure for development, support and testing
What we are looking for
MSc or PhD in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science (or related)
7+ years of software development experience, track record of delivering commercial software
Working knowledge of C++, including object-oriented design and design patterns, unit testing
A love of data structures and algorithms, and the desire to apply them in the real world
Experience in creating mathematical models of real-world optimization problems
Experience in commercial solvers (Gurobi, Xpress, CPLEX)
Ability to design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for functional, regression, and performance testing using testing frameworks and tools
Nice to have knowledge in machine learning models and algorithms
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…
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