Forward Deployed Engineer - Japan

📋 Description

• Lead discovery with the customer: orient in their codebases and workflows, find the real bottleneck
• Design and ship production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and our
• Get a first version live in days, then harden it over weeks with rollout, monitoring, and iteration
• Own production quality: tracing, evals, debugging model or delivery failures, and latency and cost
• Build the systems around the model (tools, MCP servers, retrieval, rules, skills, CI gates, and
• Measure the outcome that matters (revenue, cost, hours saved, error rate, cycle time, escaped

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science
• Write and review production code (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript; other languages welcome)
• Owned a customer or operator outcome, not just a slide or a prototype, and can turn a fuzzy problem
• Built and owned AI-native workflows or agents in production, and debugged real production failures
• Handled production reliability: metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response
• Build end to end: frontend, backend, infra, and prompt iteration