Full-stack Engineer (#101)

With the vision of “bringing the benefits of digital to everyone,” they are an AI startup from the University of Tokyo that aims at spreading cutting-edge digital technologies such as AI-based video and image analysis and natural language processing. Founded in 2018, they are a young company with a small team, but they have been supported by many partners and clients. Their goal is achieving digital transformation in the real world through further social and on-site implementation of AI algorithms such as deep learning, and to create a world where people can work and live more safely and comfortably!
<A proprietary LLM with top-class performance in Japan>

Their domestic LLM (Japanese Language Model), launched in March 2024, achieved the highest automated evaluation among domestic organizations in the Japanese MT-Bench, Japan’s largest LLM Japanese proficiency
ranking.

<An LLM application that supports the use of proprietary data>

This is a personal assistant service that uses AI to support business operations based on various internal data, smoothly accessed from the everyday Teams/Slack and is used for search and FAQs.
<Image analysis>

This technology combines a person’s posture, facial orientation, etc. to digitize their behavior and state.

<Members and atmosphere>
・Excellent AI engineers, including the CEO, who are mostly Master’s graduates from the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University

・Work style that values mutual support and teamwork

・A calm atmosphere, with an average age of 30

・A focus on ability and results rather than age and experience!

・Performance is evaluated fairly based on team discussions and reflected in salary Number of employees: 20

<Main responsibility>

Your main duties will be back-end and front-end development. Specifically, you will be responsible for the design, development, and operation of their SaaS-based generative AI chatbot product. You will be responsible for a wide range of tasks, from the upstream part of creating a prototype by considering UX from the customer’s perspective, to the downstream part of implementing it at the production level.

[Duties in a nutshell] – Design, development, and operation of SaaS-based generative AI chatbot product – New feature development and improvement – Team development management

<Must-have skills>

・3+ years of Python experience

・2+ years of Golang experience

*One of the above

・Those who can interview in Japanese.

<Welcome>

– Experience developing and operating services that are regularly used (toC/SaaS/largescale business systems)

– Experience development and designing at a startup

– Experience in project management or tech lead (leading the development itself) → Scrum development is preferable

– Experience in development and operation with micro service architecture

– Business experience related to AI → especially generative AI

<What you will gain>

Experience and skills in AI-related development and implementation used in the real world!

Not only are their members talented, but they also have extensive on-site implementation experience and know-how

Experience meeting the real needs of clients who are actively investing in cutting-edge digital fields

▶ Choose your work style! You can choose a work style that maintains work-life balance, such as reduced working hours, to accommodate childcare and physical strength – Of course, you can also pursue work that prioritizes experience, evaluations, and salary increases

<Conditions>

Employment type: regular full time

Remote work: 2 times a week

Location: Tokyo

Required Japanese language skills: ability to interview in Japanese (OK not to be fluent)

Salary: 4.5 million to 10 million yen (no bonus)

*Salary increase possible

Trial period: 3 months (first 6 months as a contract employee)

Employee benefits: Commuting allowance, marriage leave, marriage allowance, maternity allowance

Social insurance: Health insurance, employee pension insurance, employment insurance, workers’ compensation insurance

Working hours: Flextime system (core time 10:00-17:00)

Holidays and leaves: Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, New Year’s holidays; leaves according to law

Overtime: 10-20 hours

Measures to prevent passive smoking: No smoking indoors

<Selection process>

– 3 interviews

– Resume; Japanese CV

– Interview language: Japanese