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フォワードデプロイドエンジニア/ Forward Deployed Engineer

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A global data and AI company is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer. The selected candidate will build AI applications, partner with customers on production-ready use cases, shape enterprise AI architecture, codify repeatable solutions, and contribute to the growth of AI capabilities.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and prototype full-stack AI/ML applications on the platform to demonstrate AI and agentic solutions for real enterprise use cases
  • Partner directly with strategic customers to develop AI and agentic use cases from early prototypes through production readiness
  • Advise customer leaders on AI roadmaps, solution design, deployment, and enterprise AI use cases
  • Design and implement scalable AI solution architectures aligned with enterprise security, governance, and compliance standards
  • Standardise successful solution patterns into repeatable reference architectures, productised solutions, starter kits, and internal playbooks
  • Mentor internal teams and contribute to resources that expand AI capabilities
  • Share customer and field insights with Product teams to improve AI platforms and products

Requirements:

  • More than 7 years of experience building and deploying production-grade systems
  • 2-4 years of experience building ML systems or GenAI/agentic applications
  • Strong hands-on software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI/ML skills
  • Experience building full-stack ML applications or agentic systems using modern AI frameworks and tooling
  • Experience with foundation models, context engineering, fine-tuning, semantic search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic workflows
  • Deep understanding of LLMOps/MLOps practices including evaluation, observability, serving, monitoring, and lifecycle management
  • Experience designing and implementing scalable AI solution architectures aligned with enterprise standards

Preferred requirements:

  • Experience with cloud technologies including AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience with open source big data technologies such as Spark, Iceberg, or NiFi
  • Experience with AI infrastructure and runtime technologies including NVIDIA GPUs, inference optimisation, model serving, or distributed AI workloads

About the Company:

A global technology company specialising in data management, analytics and AI solutions that help organisations manage and gain insights from large-scale data. Employees benefit from career growth, professional development and opportunities within an innovative and collaborative workplace.

Keywords:

フォワードデプロイエンジニア, AIエンジニア, 機械学習エンジニア, AI, 機械学習, 生成AI, エージェントAI, セマンティック検索, ファインチューニング, 求人, 外資系

Job Ref: 4JPPR9

Contract Type: Perm

Specialism: Information Technology

Focus: Development

Industry: IT

Salary: ¥13,000,000 - ¥20,000,000 per annum

Workplace Type: On-site

Experience Level: Associate

Language: Japanese - Professional working

Second Language: English - Business level

Location: Tokyo

Job Reference: 4JPPR9-446A933D

Date posted: 14 September 2026

Consultant: Cem Ertul