Co-op/Intern Developer, AI Innovation

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.

About the team

The AI Innovation team builds Kinaxis operational orchestration: intelligence embedded in how an enterprise runs. It continuously senses what is changing, interprets what it means, decides what to do, and acts on it. Our focus is agents that reason about the problems an enterprise faces, decompose them, and orchestrate the models, tools, and deterministic engines that solve them.

Data and capable models are the starting point. The frontier is connecting signals to business context, decisions, and action, and that is where this team works. We sit at the intersection of applied research, product innovation, and customer impact, taking methods that are still being invented and engineering them into capabilities we test and deploy directly with customers.

Enterprise Agents are a new category of software, and building the platform they run on is a new kind of engineering problem. We are building that platform now — the runtime that hosts agents, the surface that developers and AI coding agents build against, and the first features where the product genuinely reasons rather than calculates. Much of it does not have an established shape yet, which is what makes it interesting work.

Location

You must be in the Ottawa, Canada office at least three days a week.

Term Duration

This is a full-time, 8, or 12-month position, starting January, 2027.

Co-op / Intern Eligibility

This position is open to co-ops and interns. To be eligible, you must be currently enrolled in full-time education or be a recent/upcoming graduate within 12 months of the placement end date.

Compensation range

$27.04 - $39.66hourly rate. The final offer within this range will reflect the candidate’s skills, year of education, and experience.

Vacancy Status

This is an existing job vacancy.

What you will do

• As a Co-op/Intern on the AI Innovation team you will be treated like a full-time developer and get to work on everything from design to production code on our agentic AI platform
• You will be working with a mentor from whom you can learn and who will provide support and guidance
• You will build new capabilities into the platform, including the tools that AI agents use to get work done
• You will help figure out how our agents behave in the real world — what works, what breaks, and what to do about it
• Your projects may include new product ideas, working prototypes, and demos to the team and to executives
• You will have access to the training that you need and start to make an impact within a few weeks of joining the team
• Projects and scope of the work you will do could change depending on the state of the codebase at the time of your start
• The codebase is in it’s early stages, and development moves fast. Your project will be scoped to where it is on your first day, in conversation with you, rather than assigned from a spec written months earlier.
• Working within the new codebase gives you the opportunity to make decisions and impacts that are visible long after your term ends.
• Day-to-day you will work with a team of experienced software engineers using modern tools and processes across platform engineering, applied AI, and product development.
• Work in a GitHub-native, agentic engineering workflow, using AI-assisted development tools as part of your day-to-day toolkit.
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