Career Opportunity for a FPGA/Verilog Developer in Japan!

■ FPGA/Verilog Developer

■ Company Overview

A leading Japan-headquartered global financial services organization with a strong presence across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The company is known for its long-standing market reputation and is currently investing heavily in technology modernization, cloud platforms, and backend engineering to support mission-critical global systems.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Design, implement and maintain specialized FPGA-based systems using Verilog to meet ultra-low-latency, high-throughput trading requirements.

● Work with the engineering team to produce architectural solutions that integrate FPGA design with Linux C/Java host applications.

● Develop, review and optimize FPGA designs for predictable, deterministic network packet processing and market protocol implementations (e.g., Arrowhead, OUCH, FIX etc.).

● Create and maintain testbenches, simulation suites and in lab/in field validation procedures to ensure correctness, performance and robustness under realistic market traffic.

● Support deployment, configuration and ongoing operation of FPGA systems in co located environments; provide L2/L3 support for production issues.

● Produce clear design documentation, help evolve development standards and release processes and participate in code/design reviews.

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Proven experience developing mid-range FPGA designs for production systems.

● Strong understanding of hardware design concepts: timing closure, pipelining, resource utilization, clock-domain crossing, signal integrity and deterministic-latency design.

● Hands-on experience with simulation and verification tools (testbenches, waveform analysis).

● Experience with FPGA toolchains (synthesis, place & route, timing analysis) from major vendors (Xilinx/AMD, Intel/Altera).

● Practical knowledge of network packet processing (Ethernet frames, IP/TCP headers and checksum handling, MAC/IP/port-based classification).

● Comfortable working with Linux-based toolchains and testing/automation facilities (PCAP analysis, Lua/Python scripting for regression tests, basic C for Linux programming, Git).

● Understanding of integrating FPGA logic with host software stacks (PCIe, kernel drivers, DMA).

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Experience with financial market protocols (Arrowhead, OUCH, FIX, or exchange-specific binary protocols).

● Prior work on DMA/FO/STP trading systems, co located exchange connectivity, or high-frequency trading infrastructure.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Collaborate with international teams across Japan, Asia, Europe, and the U.S.

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a MLOps Engineer in Japan!

■ MLOps Engineer

■ Company Overview

A research-driven organization at the intersection of AI and robotics, focused on advancing next-generation intelligent systems through cutting-edge research and real-world applications.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Design, implement, and maintain large-scale ML pipelines and optimize model performance for training on massive robot datasets

● Design, deploy, and maintain distributed training clusters to reduce model development cycles

● Collaborate closely with VLA researchers to capture evolving ML infrastructure, data pre-processing, training, monitoring, evaluation, and deployment requirements and continuously improve ML pipeline through analysis and experimentation.

● Optimize ML infrastructure and pipeline for cost, performance, and reliability

● Design, develop, and maintain MLOps tools and platforms to ensure VLA researchers can efficiently visualize and analyze the performance

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

● 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer in MLOps engineering, machine learning, or robotics.

● Experience in deploying distributed systems to popular cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure.

● Experience in orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Kedro.

● High proficiency in PyTorch or JAX.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Experience with training and fine-tuning techniques for RL, VLM, and VLA models, including distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and policy optimization.

● Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines for data processing.

● Experience in hyper-parameter optimization.

● Experience in distributed training frameworks and cluster management for deep neural network training.
● High proficiency in SQL.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Work at the cutting edge of AI and robotics, shaping real-world intelligent systems—not just theory

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Full-Stack Engineer in Japan!

■ Full-Stack Engineer

■ Company Overview

A research-driven organization at the intersection of AI and robotics, focused on advancing next-generation intelligent systems through cutting-edge research and real-world applications.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Design, develop and implement teleoperation systems, including real‑time control, low‑latency audio/video streaming and operator-facing interfaces.

● Work closely with robot operators to gather feedback from real‑world use and continuously improve the user experience.

● Provide data‑quality feedback through the teleoperation UI to encourage higher‑quality data collection.

● Develop and maintain applications that support data collection, such as internal tools and dashboards.

● Build intuitive web‑based interfaces for managing and monitoring data pipelines.

● Collaborate with VLA teams and Data/ML platform teams to ensure seamless data ingestion and workflow management.

● Design and implement APIs to facilitate data interactions between internal services and external data sources.

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

● 4+ years of professional experience as a full‑stack engineer.

● Proficiency in frontend frameworks such as Next.js, React or Vue.

● Proficiency in implementing backend solutions using such technologies as Go and Python FastAP

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Experience developing real-time dashboards, robot control interfaces, or similar applications.

● Experience with web crawling and large-scale data processing is a plus.

● Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure.

● Strong understanding of web/mobile app development and real‑time communication protocols (WebSocket, MQTT, gRPC).

● Experience with ROS/ROS2 and related web tools (e.g., ROSBridge, Foxglove, Webviz).

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Work at the cutting edge of AI and robotics, shaping real-world intelligent systems—not just theory

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Data Engineer in Japan!

■ Data Engineer

■ Company Overview

A research-driven organization at the intersection of AI and robotics, focused on advancing next-generation intelligent systems through cutting-edge research and real-world applications.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Design and implement large-scale data pipelines that cover the full lifecycle of high-quality datasets for robotics foundation models—collection, processing, curation, and publishing. 

● Design, build, and maintain data schemas, storage solutions, and query interfaces to enable VLA researchers to efficiently discover, query, and consume curated datasets. 

● Collaborate closely with VLA researchers to capture evolving data requirements and continuously improve data pipelines through analysis and experimentation.

● Design and scale distributed data-processing pipelines capable of handling petabyte-scale multimodal datasets (e.g., RGB/Depth, point clouds) with full lineage and reproducibility. 

● Define data-quality metrics and build feedback loops to continuously monitor and improve data quality.

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

● 5+ years professional experience in data engineering / data platform development.

● Experience in designing and operating large-scale ETL / ELT pipelines using Spark, Flink, Ray or similar distributed engine.

● Designed or led implementations using Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Hudi.

● Integrated with Trino, Athena, Databricks SQL, or Glue/Unity Catalog

● Defined schema evolution, ACID compliance, partitioning strategy, time travel, and cost-performance optimization.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Experience working with terabyte or petabyte-scale datasets.

● Expertise in data lake storage systems such as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake with query systems such as Trino and catalog systems such as Nessie.

● Expertise in distributed processing frameworks like Spark, Flink, or Ray.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Be part of a research-first environment

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Join an Advanced AI Research Team – Research Scientist Role in Japan!

■ Research Scientist

■ Company Overview

A research-driven organization at the intersection of AI and robotics, focused on advancing next-generation intelligent systems through cutting-edge research and real-world applications

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Research and development of large-scale visual language models 

● Building a development infrastructure for large-scale visual language models

● Designing benchmarks to evaluate the capabilities of large-scale visual language models 

● Data engineering, building a data infrastructure 

● Publishing research results in papers

● Experience developing in a team using software development platforms such as GitHub 

● Experience developing machine learning models using a distributed parallel environment such as Megatron-LM or PyTorch 

● Master's degree in information systems or a similar field, or equivalent experience 

● Experience reading and understanding papers and reproducing implementations or modifying algorithms

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Experience in research and development of large-scale visual language models 

● PhD in information systems or a similar field 

● Experience as a project leader/sub-leader 

● Experience building DevOps/MLOps environments 

● Experience building evaluation benchmarks 

● Experience having papers accepted at top conferences/top journals in the field of computer science

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Those who empathize with our business activities and mission, and have the willingness and motivation to take on new challenge

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Be part of a research-first environment

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a UI/UX Designer in Japan!

■ UI/UX Designer

■ Company Overview

 A leading Japanese e-commerce and internet services company, founded in 1997, operates one of the country’s largest online marketplaces, connecting millions of merchants and consumers. Beyond online retail, it has expanded into diverse sectors including fintech, digital content, telecommunications, and professional sports. Its ecosystem integrates shopping, payments, banking, credit cards, mobile services, and loyalty programs through a shared rewards system, creating a seamless experience across its platforms. Headquartered in Tokyo, the company has also grown globally, offering services in multiple regions and investing in innovation, AI, and cloud technologies to strengthen its digital infrastructure. 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Create and iterate on user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for generative AI features
● Own end-to-end design workflows from concept to implementation, weighing user experience against technical feasibility and business objectives ● Identify new AI opportunities, design concepts, and build prototypes to execute on strategic goals
● Shape product direction through breakthrough generative AI interface innovations
● Facilitate alignment and build unified product design vision across teams  

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Portfolio website required, showcasing your design process and solutions
● High standards for UI/UX design execution. Advanced Figma skills.
● Strong product design sense and problem-solving abilities to tackle new design challenges
● Extensive agentic coding experience (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor). Strong preference for candidates who have shipped products using agentic coding
● Strong storytelling and communication skills using mental models, mockups and other tools-for-thought to effectively communicate ideas to teams and senior stakeholders
● Bias towards shipping fast and iterating based on real user feedback
● Comfortable navigating abstract and unknown territories when exploring new AI ideas

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● 4+ years of experience designing UX and UI for software, with experience working with generative AI, LLMs, or conversational interfaces
● Natural curiosity for discovering simpler ways to tackle hard problems
● Experience with design research and user testing
● Knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design
● Japanese skills 

■ Work Location

Tokyo (Hybrid)

■ Language
● Fluent English communication skills (both written and spoken) are required as the team operates in English.
● Japanese language skills are not required but are considered a great plus.

 Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Japan!

■ Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

■ Company Overview

A leading fintech company in Japan that has rapidly scaled to over 70 million users since its launch in 2018. The team is highly diverse, comprising professionals from approximately 50 different countries, fostering a global and inclusive work environment.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities
● Architect and build a robust, scalable and stable infrastructure
● Architect and build Infrastructure that is easily maintainable during patching and upgrades without downtime
● Architect and build Infrastructure with AWS regional level failure tolerance
● Work together with our Security Engineers to provision a secure Infrastructure
● Automations for AWS Deployments to ensure fast delivery of Cloud Services to our developers
● Provide through Automations means for developers to easily deploy resources on AWS

■ Experience and Qualifications
● 5+ years of technical experience in AWS based Infrastructure solution design and build
● Experience in production level Infrastructure change management and releases for High traffic & business-critical systems
● Good understanding of Cloud security best practices and payment industry compliance standards
● Experience in production incident management and cross team collaboration
● Extensive technical hands-on experience of Computing, Storage and Analytical Services on Cloud(AWS)
● Experience with IAC tools in AWS such as Terraform etc.
● Experience with Linux Internals and System Administration
● Experience with Cloud Services Monitoring, Detection and Response
● Experience in Cloud Infrastructure Service patching and upgrades
● Have excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
● Business level in either English or Japanese (Native Japanese speaker or JLPT N1 equivalent) 

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
● Has maintained over 200 servers/containers in a production, customer facing cloud environment
● Experience in Disaster recovery for cloud systems and improvements for RTO and RPO
● Experience with other cloud service providers (e.g Google Cloud)
● Experience in Cloud Services Performance Tuning, cost controls and management
● Experience using and contributing to Open Source tools Published papers / blogs / articles - Experience in managing IT compliance and security risk
● Experience in working for infrastructure design and build in securities, finance, or similar industries Experience in in-house service operations 

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Hybrid work culture (flexible working style including Remote and office)　
● There are no fixed rules regarding office attendance in Product group; it depends on each individual's discretion. 

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan (flexible working style)
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Backend Engineer in Japan!

■ Backend Engineer

■ Company Overview

An e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications company with more than 30,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities
● Handle the full software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, programming, testing, and deployment.

● Collaborate closely with Product Managers, internal teams, and upstream/downstream system stakeholders.

● Monitor and optimize system stability and performance, design and maintain system architectures, and perform refactoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvements.

■ Experience and Qualifications
● Over 5 years of experience in Java development using frameworks such as Spring and Play, with strong knowledge of design patterns and RESTful/GraphQL API development.
● Hands-on experience in unit testing with JUnit, frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), and relational databases (3+ years with RDBMS).
● Skilled in version control tools (Git, SVN), web servers (Apache, Nginx), and Unix/Linux environments (1+ year).

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
● Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.

● Background in working with caching and NoSQL technologies like Redis, Kafka, MQ, and Memcache.

● Proficient in CI/CD and DevOps practices using tools including Jenkins and CircleCI.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Hybrid work culture 

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a QA Engineer in Japan!

■ QA Engineer

■ Company Overview

An e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications company with more than 30,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities
● Design and maintain AI-driven test strategies where LLMs generate, refactor, and self-heal test suites for UI (React/TypeScript) and data-pipeline services.
● Develop reusable prompt libraries for test generation, log analysis, and root-cause identification to streamline QA processes.
● Implement shift-left and shift-right automation by combining contract-based API tests with AI-powered production anomaly detection.
● Benchmark and integrate emerging AI QA tools into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) through PoCs and continuous improvement.
● Review business and technical requirements using AI to flag ambiguities, develop AI-generated test plans, and maintain living documentation.
● Track and verify defects, leveraging AI for reproduction-step generation, log summarization, and publishing automated test-suite results.

■ Experience and Qualifications
●  Over 5 years of experience in Software QA for Web UI, RESTful APIs, and ETL/data pipeline products, with strong expertise in test automation and framework design.
● Skilled in leveraging AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools to accelerate test automation, code reviews, and overall QA efficiency.
● Hands-on experience in data validation for batch and stream processing across cloud platforms, with strong SQL proficiency for querying and analysis.
● Proficient in modern automation frameworks like Playwright + TypeScript, with deep knowledge of RESTful API testing, HTTP fundamentals, and secure test data management.
● Strong prompt engineering skills to translate test heuristics into effective LLM prompts and system messages for AI-assisted testing.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
● Experienced in building and integrating AI agents for autonomous test-case generation, self-healing, defect triage, root-cause analysis, and anomaly detection in production systems.
● Hands-on mobile testing experience on iOS and Android, including automation using tools like Appium, with exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
● Knowledge of cloud platforms, containerization (Docker), and security, performance, and SLA stress testing.
● Familiar with QA management and analytics tools such as TestRail, Adobe Analytics, and Google Analytics.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Hybrid work culture 

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a QA Engineer in Japan!

■ QA Engineer

■ Company Overview

A leading FinTech organization revolutionizing cashless payments in Japan, offering innovative and convenient credit services integrated with a major digital payment platform. Seeking passionate professionals eager to drive rapid product innovation and shape the future of financial life experiences.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities
● Lead QA activities by defining and updating quality standards while managing the QA team.
● Design, plan, and execute tests across both agile and waterfall product development environments.
● Perform functional and usability testing on web and mobile platforms to ensure a seamless user experience.
● Collaborate with developers, designers, and project managers to resolve issues and improve product quality.
● Propose and implement process improvements, including creating documentation and QA manuals.

■ Experience and Qualifications
●  Over 5 years of experience in QA for web and mobile applications (Android/iOS), with expertise in test planning, design, and execution.
● Strong analytical skills to interpret technical specifications and ensure product quality in fast-paced, agile environments.
● Proven ability to standardize QA processes, implement improvements, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
● Proficient in QA tools like Zephyr, ALM, TestRail, and TestLink, with strong attention to detail, documentation, and communication skills.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
● Experienced in leading QA teams, driving cross-functional projects, and enhancing product quality through process improvements, defect analysis, and preventive measures.
● Skilled in test automation using tools like Selenium, Playwright, and UFT, with expertise in JIRA, Confluence, and QA practices within the financial domain.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Hybrid work culture 

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.