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Data Engineer (Product)

Sakana AI

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build data infrastructure from scratch as the product team's first data engineer.
  • Enable AI to autonomously analyze product data and drive exponential growth.
  • Transform event logs and LLM inference data into analysis-ready form.

Ideal candidate

A builder-minded data professional who loves owning systems 0-to-1 and turning messy product data into clear insights. Motivated by cutting-edge AI, thoughtful privacy design, and global collaboration.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering or analytics engineering in large-scale production environments
  • Strong SQL skills and data modeling experience, including pipelines accounting for regulations and personal information protection
  • Hands-on experience with Google Cloud and data warehouses such as BigQuery, Databricks or Snowflake
  • Hands-on experience with Airflow, dbt, Terraform and Docker
  • Understanding of LLM fundamentals and ability to incorporate latest AI research
  • Ability to communicate in English
hiring process
Submit CV and cover letter in English; technical assignment after document screening

Lab profile

About Sakana AI

Tokyo AI lab building nature-inspired generative AI, LLMs and recursive self-improving systems for enterprise use.

What they build

  • Sakana Chat
  • Sakana Marlin
  • Sakana Fugu

Known for

  • Collective intelligence
  • Model orchestration
  • Recursive self-improvement
  • Large language model development

Key facts

  • Founded in 2023
  • Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan
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