Member of Technical Staff - Applied ML, Japanese Multimodal

Highlights

• Own customer AI projects from discovery through production deployment in Japan.
• Make efficient foundation models perform reliably in real customer environments.
• Turn field lessons into reusable tooling that improves models and roadmap.

What they offer

• Competitive salary and equity in unicorn-stage company
• Standard benefits for employees in Japan
• Primarily remote work with flexible working hours
• Unlimited paid time off
• Travel to the US and relevant conferences

Ideal candidate

End-to-end applied ML engineer who loves customer-facing deployment work and owns outcomes from ambiguous discovery to reliable production. Rigorous, pragmatic builder who thrives across teams and cares about efficiency and real-world impact.

Requirements

• Strong engineering skills building, testing and shipping production-quality ML systems
• Hands-on deployment of language models, multimodal models or deep learning beyond prototypes
• Experience with model serving, profiling and inference optimization
• Proficiency with the open-source ML ecosystem
• Experience designing evaluations and driving improvements via error analysis
• Comfort leading customer technical discussions and shipping ambiguous requirements
• Professional proficiency in English