Forward Deployed Engineer - Japan
TokyoFull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. Devin is the first AI software engineer. Deployed Engineers are customer-facing technical experts who lead pre-sales technical work, pilots, and enablement to help customers adopt Devin.
Responsibilities
- Own all technical aspects of the customer lifecycle—from deployment through activation, making sure our customers are successful using Devin
- Work closely with customers to understand their technical challenges and identify the best use cases for Devin to be a productive contributor
- Build deep relationships with our customers’ engineering teams to ensure smooth product integration and adoption, activating top users and driving product utilization
- Build! Always listen to customer feedback, have a bias towards implementing requested features yourself, and advocate for the customers’ needs with the rest of the team
- Be the customer oracle! Exercise your product instincts to help set the roadmap
Qualifications
- Degree in a STEM field
- Proven track record of successful enterprise deployments in previous GTM or forward deployed engineering roles
- You’re a natural relationship-builder, an excellent communicator and feel comfortable talking about complex technical topics with customers in all roles and levels
- Thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments — you’re willing to move fast and quickly grow in scope and responsibility
- You have a demonstrated exceptional ability to learn
Skills
Required:Enterprise deploymentTechnical communication
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Cognition
cognition is an applied AI lab
An applied AI lab building the future of software engineering. We’re the makers of Devin, a collaborative AI teammate that helps ambitious engineering teams achieve more.
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