A heavily funded AI startup in Tokyo is hiring Applied Research Engineers.
Led by the former CEO of one of Japan’s most successful B2C platforms, the company recently raised approximately 10B in its first funding round. You will work alongside researchers and engineers from leading universities and major technology companies, building proprietary AI technology rather than simple API wrappers.
You will turn advanced AI models and agents into production-grade systems for real business environments:
AI agent execution platforms and inference systems
RAG pipelines using enterprise data
LLM evaluation, monitoring, and continuous improvement
Secure, low-latency backend infrastructure
Human-in-the-loop AI workflows
Why consider it:
Compensation starts from 15M, even for junior-level researchers
Remote-first, with full remote work available from anywhere in Japan