Operation Research Scientist, Supply Chain
Kinaxis Inc.2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain optimization and analytical software for supply chain planning applications.
- Implement mathematical models, optimization frameworks, simulation models, and decision-support methodologies.
- Translate business problems into scalable analytical and optimization solutions.
- Validate algorithms through experimentation, benchmarking, and statistical analysis.
- Build data preparation, feature engineering, model training, and inference workflows.
- Apply machine learning to forecasting, prediction, classification, and recommendation problems.
- Develop reusable, maintainable, testable Python software components.
- Participate in code reviews, technical and architecture discussions, troubleshooting, and performance improvement.
- Contribute to automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, proof-of-concepts, and innovation initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Data Science.
- Strong Python programming skills and knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and SQL.
- Strong understanding of Operations Research, mathematical optimization, linear and integer programming, network optimization, simulation, stochastic modeling, probability and statistics, decision science, or mathematical modeling.
- Knowledge of machine learning fundamentals, predictive analytics, statistical learning, model evaluation, and data analysis.
- Experience with Scikit-Learn, Pandas, NumPy, and PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Knowledge of Git, unit testing, debugging, software design principles, and Agile development practices.
- Academic or internship experience in Operations Research, optimization, simulation, machine learning, or advanced analytics is preferred.
- Experience building scientific or analytical software, handling large datasets, or solving computationally intensive problems is preferred.
- Exposure to supply chain planning, logistics, inventory management, manufacturing, cloud-native applications, or distributed computing is preferred.
- Strong quantitative, programming, collaboration, communication, and analytical problem-solving abilities.
Benefits
- Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days, including a company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month.
- Flexible work options.
- Physical and mental well-being programs and regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes.
- Mentorship, training, and career development programs.
- Recognition programs, referral rewards, and hackathons.
- Inclusive recruitment process with accommodations available upon request.
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About Kinaxis Inc.
Kinaxis builds RapidResponse, a cloud-based supply chain planning and orchestration platform used for S&OP, demand/supply planning, and risk management by enterprises in automotive, life sciences, high tech, and industrial sectors. It sells subscription software and related services to manage end-to-end supply chains. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Ottawa, the company is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (KXS).