Forward Deployment Engineer, Agentic Solutions

Location IN-TN-Perungudi, Chennai
ID 2026-34718
Category
Engineering
Position Type
Full-Time
Remote
No

V5-Main-positions

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 Hybrid

About the role

Kinaxis is building a Forward Deployed Engineers team whose singular mission is to Help customer 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 deployment unit embedded, operating with the speed and ownership culture of a startup.

 

This team operates as a POD inside Kinaxis — a small, tight unit with end-to-end ownership and a startup mentality inside a larger company. 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.

 

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.

 

💡 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.

 

 

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.

What we are looking for

Bias to action

You move on what matters. You finish what you start. The outcome is yours — no waiting for perfect clarity.

Self-directed

You identify what matters, secure the help or learning you need, and deliver — without being told.

Always learning

Every customer, teammate, and new tool is a chance to level up. Not knowing something is fine; refusing to learn it is not.

Customer-obsessed

You can sit with a frustrated VP, a skeptical architect, or a junior analyst — and leave each one feeling heard, helped, and impressed.

Comfortable with ambiguity

Undefined problem, undefined scope, undefined success metric — and you still ship.

Drives change, not just code

You guide customers through transitions and mentor their teams to adopt new ways of working.

 

The following are the technical areas we look for. You do not need depth in all of them — we look for strong foundations, a growth trajectory, and the ability to pick up what is missing quickly.

 

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 Code, agentic IDE workflows) as daily practice, not novelty.
  • Understanding of agentic orchestration patterns — when to use single vs. multi-agent architectures, how to handle memory and state.

Software Engineering

  • Solid, hands-on software engineering fundamentals: you have built and shipped real systems, not just scripts.
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python strongly preferred) and the ability to read and contribute across a polyglot codebase.
  • Experience with REST and streaming APIs, authentication patterns, and integration with enterprise systems.

Data Engineering & Platforms

  • Ability to build and maintain data pipelines — ingestion, transformation, serving, and monitoring — using tools such as Airflow, Kafka, dbt, or equivalents.
  • Working familiarity with modern data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or similar), including data modeling and performance fundamentals.
  • Strong debugging instincts with imperfect, real-world data in production environments.

Supply Chain Domain (Nice to Have)

  • Prior exposure to supply chain planning, logistics, or operations domains is a genuine plus — not a requirement.
  • Experience with or curiosity about platforms like Kinaxis, SAP IBP, o9, or Blue Yonder is welcome context.

EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND

  • 2 – 5 years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, solutions engineering, or a technical-founder role. Strong candidates at either end of that range are welcome to apply.
  • Prior exposure to customer-facing technical roles — solutions engineering, forward deployment, technical consulting, or a startup where you wore multiple hats — is a strong signal, though not a requirement.

 

HOW YOU WILL SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE

  • You measure your own success in business outcomes — efficiency gains, exception reduction, SLA improvements — not lines of code shipped.
  • You bring field learnings back into the platform, helping abstract what works into durable, scalable capabilities.
  • You operate with high agency: you unblock yourself, adapt when conditions change, and take ownership end-to-end without requiring close supervision.
  • You are curious and pragmatic — you explore new tools and apply them where they create real value, not because they are new.
  • You communicate clearly across engineering, product, and business stakeholders — written, verbal, and in the room.

#Fulltime, #Full-time #Associate #LI-RJ1 #LI-Hybrid

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.

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 us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

 

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