Member of Technical Staff RSI Lab
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
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will conduct frontier research and engineering for recursive self-improving AI. You will discover new machine-intelligence methods, build world models for agentic reasoning and planning, apply evolutionary methods to algorithmic domains, and build infrastructure for high-dimensional search, distributed compute, and automated code generation. You will be physically based in Tokyo.
Requirements
- Recognized global impact in AI or machine learning
- Proven frontier research or engineering track record
- Physical presence in Tokyo
Responsibilities
- Discover new laws of machine intelligence
- Build world models for agentic reasoning and planning
- Apply open-ended evolutionary dynamics to algorithmic domains
- Build infrastructure for recursive self-improvement systems
- Optimize high-dimensional search pipelines and distributed compute topologies
- Productionize automated code-generation stacks
Benefits
- Visa application assistance
Hiring Process
Find a role; email careers@sakana.ai with a brief introduction and the role; submit the Google Form with a CV and English cover letter.