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Applied AI Engineer, Cyber | Tokyo

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Tokyo, JapanFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Cybersecurity-focused Applied AI Engineer role based in Tokyo, partnering with customers to apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to real cybersecurity use cases across AppSec, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, SOC/IR, and related domains.

Responsibilities

  • Deeply embed with strategic customers as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows, serving as a trusted partner to both security executives and technical practitioners.
  • Lead discovery across AppSec, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, SOC/IR, detection engineering, red team, cloud security, identity, and GRC automation use cases.
  • Build and deliver customer-facing demos, prototypes, workshops, proofs of concept, and reference architectures using OpenAI APIs, Codex, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems, logs, tickets, scanners, and common security tools.
  • Scope pilots with clear success criteria, data requirements, workflow integrations, evaluation methods, security constraints, safety boundaries, and human approval points.
  • Advise customers on safe implementation patterns, including tool and function calling, structured outputs, retrieval, sandboxing, data handling, guardrails, telemetry, auditability, and approval-gated side effects.
  • Translate between CISO-level outcomes and practitioner-level implementation details so each audience understands value, risk, and practical next steps.
  • Create reusable field assets such as demo narratives, playbooks, FAQs, objection handling, qualification guides, assessment templates, and competitive positioning.
  • Validate, synthesize, and deliver high-signal feedback to Product, Engineering, Research, Security, and GTM teams based on recurring customer requirements, blockers, product gaps, and emerging cyber workflows.]
  • You might thrive in this role if ... (see qualifications)
  • Collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Engineering, Research, and Security to turn customer needs into safe deployment patterns and reusable field assets.

Qualifications

  • Have 5+ years of technical consulting, solutions engineering, security architecture, cyber advisory, deployment engineering, professional services, or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
  • Strong cybersecurity domain expertise across one or more areas such as application security, cloud security, identity, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, incident response, detection engineering, threat intelligence, red teaming, or security architecture.
  • Ability to communicate credibly with CISOs, CTOs, security executives, engineering leaders, and highly technical security practitioners.
  • Hands-on experience building prototypes or production systems with APIs, Python or JavaScript, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems, logs, tickets, scanners, or other common security tooling.
  • Understanding of AI workflow design with retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evals, guardrails, telemetry, sandboxing, and human-in-the-loop review.
  • Experience scoping pilots from ambiguous customer pain, including success metrics, required data, workflow integrations, evaluation criteria, deployment assumptions, and decision gates.
  • Evidence-first security judgment: validating findings, separating true positives from noise, documenting assumptions, and avoiding overstating model or security claims.
  • Ability to own problems end-to-end, operate with high throughput across multiple concurrent customer projects, and balance hands-on work with reusable leverage for the broader field.
  • Humility, teamwork mindset, and a strong drive to help colleagues and customers succeed.

Skills

Required:AI-enabled cybersecurity workflowsOpenAI APIs, Codex, agentsSecurity tooling and workflows

Benefits

  • Relocation support to Tokyo office
  • Collaborative, customer-facing role with cross-functional teams
  • Opportunities to influence product and security workflows
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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