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Senior AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)

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Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior AI Engineer for the Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE) team in Tokyo, focusing on delivering professional services to build and productionize GenAI applications for customers, with cross-functional collaboration and customer-facing responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Develop cutting-edge GenAI solutions, incorporating the latest techniques from Databricks AI research to solve customer problems
  • Own production rollouts of consumer and internally facing GenAI applications
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers across a variety of domains
  • Present at conferences such as Data + AI Summit, recognized as a thought leader internally and externally
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with the product and engineering teams to influence priorities and shape the product roadmap

Qualifications

  • Experience building GenAI applications, including RAG, multi-agent systems, Text2SQL, fine-tuning, etc., with tools such as HuggingFace, LangChain, and DSPy
  • Expertise in deploying production-grade GenAI applications, including evaluation and optimizations
  • Extensive years of hands-on industry data science experience, leveraging common ML tools (pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc.)
  • Experience building production-grade ML deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience communicating and/or teaching technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences
  • Passion for collaboration, lifelong learning, and driving business value through AI
  • [Preferred] Experience using Databricks Intelligence Platform and Apache Spark to process large-scale distributed datasets
  • Willing to travel once every 4-8 weeks to see customers (as needed)
  • Language Proficiency: Native-level fluency in Japanese and professional working proficiency in English (both written and verbal)

Skills

Required:GenAIProduction deployment of ML/GenAICloud platformsProgramming / ML toolingCommunication / teaching

Benefits

  • Benefits details available regionally via provided link
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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