Forward Deployed Engineer GTM
Tokyo-based frontier AI R&D company that develops nature-inspired AI research and commercial AI products for enterprises and users.
Funding history
About Sakana AI K.K.
Sakana AI develops frontier AI research inspired by collective intelligence and self-evolution, alongside AI products and applied solutions for enterprises and Japan’s public sector.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead enterprise deployments from technical discovery and integration design through proof of concept, production, adoption, and expansion. You will connect products with customer systems, data sources, and identity infrastructure; resolve security and compliance requirements; configure workflows; measure value; and contribute field insights and fixes to the product codebase.
Requirements
- 3+ years of production software engineering experience
- API design and implementation
- Testing and code review
- Customer-facing technical scoping and decision-making
- Enterprise system deployment and integration
- Authentication
- Data integration
- Security review
- LLM and generative AI application development or deployment
- Native-level Japanese
- Business-level English preferred
- RAG, AI agent, or evaluation pipeline experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise product deployments and integration architecture
- Implement connections to customer systems, data sources, and identity infrastructure
- Lead proofs of concept through production deployment
- Resolve security, compliance, and IT-review requirements with customers
- Configure, tune, and extend products for customer workflows
- Build API-based tools, workflows, and evaluation loops
- Define success metrics, measure usage impact, and enable customer champions
- Plan and execute departmental and company-wide rollouts
- Fix field issues and implement reusable product features
- Turn customer requirements and blockers into prioritized roadmap proposals
- Build reusable integration templates, reference implementations, and deployment playbooks
Hiring Process
Initial document screening → assignment submission.