Applied AI Engineer, Startups
Remote • Tokyo, Japan • FullTime
Posted 1mo ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
We are seeking a technically proficient, business-minded Applied AI Engineer to help push the frontier of advanced AI with our strategic startup customers. You'll work with some of the most exciting AI startups in the world, guiding them through ideation, development, delivery, and scaling to accelerate and maximize the value of what they build on our platform. You will have the opportunity to work on the most novel and creative use cases being built on our API, serving as a critical partner in collecting and delivering high-fidelity product and model feedback internally. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams, and you will report to the Startups Applied AI Lead.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with strategic startup customers as their technical thought partner to build novel applications on our API, helping them rapidly move from ideation to scale.
- Provide proactive guidance to maximize business impact and accelerate application development.
- Experiment and prototype alongside customers, demonstrating practical use cases.
- Contribute to open-source resources and scale the function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing useful resources.
- Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to the Product and Research teams.
- Build relationships within the startup ecosystem, serving as a technical partner to both individual customers and the broader community.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ML engineer or equivalent, ideally in a startup environment; experience as a founder or founding engineer is highly valued.
- Passion for startups and a belief in their potential to become future large enterprises.
- Proficient in Python and JavaScript.
- Strong grasp of AI/LLM best practices.
- Experience building and/or delivering prototypes on top of our API platform.
- Ability to proactively identify opportunities for maximizing customers’ business value through leveraging the OpenAI API.
- Ability to own problems end-to-end and willingness to pick up missing knowledge.
- Humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.
- Effective, high throughput operator who can drive multiple concurrent projects and prioritize ruthlessly.
- Ability to speak Japanese and English fluently.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance to new employees.