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Software Engineer (Research and Development)

Sakana AI· Software Engineering
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Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan)full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Versatile software engineer bridging ML research and user-facing products. Builds data pipelines, benchmarking systems, full-stack infrastructure, and tools to deploy research into usable software.

Responsibilities

  • Accelerate ML Research (Data & Pipelines) – Design and build robust data collection pipelines and automated benchmarking systems; collaborate with researchers to provide data and evaluation metrics.
  • Full-Stack Product Development – Develop user-facing web portals and internal dashboards, product-related infrastructure, authentication, and intuitive interfaces for interacting with AI models.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience across the full stack
  • Strong proficiency in Python; experience with a second language (Go, Node.js, or TypeScript)
  • Experience with web development frameworks (React, Next.js, Vue, or similar) for portals and dashboards
  • Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and containerization (Docker)
  • Proven experience building and deploying mission-critical, scalable applications on a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure)

Skills

Required:PythonGo/Node.js/TypeScriptWeb frameworksCloud platformsContainerization
Nice to have:Production APIs & databasesDevOps / IaC / CI/CDML model serving & monitoring
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Sakana AI

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