Forward Deployed Engineer I
About Kinaxis
Are you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis we are serious about culture, we are serious about technology, we are serious about customers, and we are serious about not taking ourselves too seriously. If you are looking to be part of an incredible growth story, then we might just be the place for you!
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, 6 global office and a best-in-class HQ in Ottawa, Canada. As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.
Kinaxis is a global leader in modern supply chain orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. Our powerful, AI infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today’s volatility and disruption. 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.
Location
This is a remote position. You can work from home and be located anywhere in the UK or Ireland.
About the team
Kinaxis is building a Forward Deployed Engineers team whose singular mission is to help customers transform how work gets done in the Agentic Age. This is not a consulting role and it is not a features team. It is a multi-disciplined deployment unit operating with the speed and ownership culture of a startup.
You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with customers from warehouse floor to executive sponsor designing, building, and shipping Agentic AI solutions on the Kinaxis Maestro Platform. When a solution works, you abstract it into a reusable pattern. When something breaks in production, you own the fix. You operate in a POD team: tight, multi-disciplinary, and self-directed. We are scrappy, resourceful, and self-directed. We move fast, trade tasks to whoever is closest to the need, and stay relentlessly focused on customer impact.
Attitude is the biggest asset. We hire for trajectory and mindset, not years on a resume. The right bias to action, ownership, and appetite to keep learning cannot be taught but every technical skill here can be. Bring those, and we will invest in the rest.
Vacancy Status
This is an existing job vacancy.
What you will do
- Own customer solutions end-to-end. Rapidly prototype, iterate, and deploy solutions in live operational environments where the stakes are real and the timeline is short.
- Deliver relentless customer value. Build trusted relationships from the IC level to the executive sponsor and become the technical face of our company in the room.
- Run multiple threads. Carry several customer engagements in parallel based on customer priorities and pod capacity. Set expectations early, renegotiate honestly when reality shifts, operate without close supervision, and own the outcome.
- Operate as a SEAL team. A small, tight, multi-disciplinary unit with focus and urgency tasks are traded seamlessly to whoever is closest to the skills needed.
- Make the product better. Partner with Product and Engineering to convert field learnings into durable platform capabilities not one-off scripts.
- Drive adoption and lead the change. Mentor customer operators and guide their teams through solution transitions, so the new way of working actually sticks.
What we are looking for
- AI & Agentic Development
- Hands-on experience building LLM-based applications RAG systems, multi-agent workflows, tool-use patterns, prompt and context engineering.
- Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Claude C