Engineering Jobs in Japan

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Server-Side Engineer (JAVA)

[Responsibilities] Specification of web services on the server side, design, implementation, and maintenance of feature development Database design/development and various data processing tasks. In the future, we would also like to entrust you with roles such as tech lead, depending on your aspirations. [Development Environment] Languages: Java, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, SQL, Python, etc. OS: Linux-based, Windows-based, UNIX-based, etc. Middleware: MySQL, Oracle, etc.

EN: BusinessJP: BusinessVisa: Not Available

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CAIO Candidate: Sr. Data Scientist

You will be responsible for data analysis, development of machine learning infrastructure, and development of machine learning models as a data scientist. This role offers the following advantages: ① Opportunity to work on the development of a wide variety of machine learning models ② Growth opportunities unique to a startup ③ The chance to take on challenges in the cutting-edge field of finance x MaaS Machine learning models related to vehicles: We will apply AI to the know-how cultivated at Gulliver, a used-car buying and selling business, and develop a car pricing model that will become the standard for the used-car industry, as well as services that translate its value to customers. Machine learning models related to people: Using data related to people—such as demographic data, payment data, and driving data collected via IoT devices—we will develop machine learning models that calculate credit scores and driving scores, as well as services that translate that value to customers. *Service development will be carried out in collaboration with the data engineering and application engineering teams. In addition, you will work on data analysis related to problem solving, such as marketing science and lead scoring, to improve the productivity of marketing and sales organizations. You will also be responsible for data engineering to turn the results of that analysis into outcomes, including building data pipelines and setting up an MLOps environment.

EN: Not RequiredJP: BusinessVisa: Not Available

Direct Trackengineeringbackend

Backend & Cloud Engineer

We are looking for a backend engineer to collaborate with a small full-stack team to build cloud infrastructure and products for evaluating, monitoring, and governing AI systems. You will have broad responsibilities across cloud infrastructure and product backends. On the cloud infrastructure side, you will work on latency and cost optimization, scalability, monitoring, and deployments. On the product side, you will work on web servers, SQL databases, LLM/AI libraries, GPU inference, API design, integrations with external services (e.g., SSO), and generic product features for the governance of AI models and agents. The host product is primarily operated on Google Cloud (mainly Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, and Vertex AI). Self-hosted deployments on Azure and AWS are also supported. The backend is implemented mainly in Python. Technologies used: Docker, Helm, Tilt, OpenTofu, PostgreSQL, Redis, FastAPI, Flask.

EN: BusinessJP: BusinessVisa: Not Available

EN: ConversationalJP: Business

Yokohama [Test Driver]

We are seeking a motivated individual to accelerate vehicle-level testing of current and future driver assistance features as we work to deliver advanced driver assistance technology. Vehicle operators are responsible for identifying improvements and regressions in performance and behavior across each software revision. The ideal candidate has sound, objective judgment, excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail, and initiative. This position may require flexibility to travel domestically and internationally to test vehicles on public roads, test tracks, and proving grounds. You must also be able to adapt to a flexible work schedule, which may include working at least one weekend day per week. Availability to work day, evening, or night shifts is required. You will drive engineering vehicles in designated areas to collect data, working approximately five to eight hours per day. You will start and stop recording devices as needed and perform basic checks and troubleshooting of equipment and software. You will analyze and report on the quality of data collected during each shift, provide feedback, and propose process improvements to optimize data collection. You will prepare detailed daily driving reports documenting observations and issues, and check vehicle safety and operational readiness before each shift. You will survey assigned areas and design routes that include scenarios suitable for validating advanced driver assistance technology. You will learn and become proficient in the latest driver assistance software and related vehicle features. You will conduct on-road tests based on test specifications and provide support for scenarios as requested. You will also assist with other vehicle engineering tests as needed.

Osaka [Test Driver]

We are seeking motivated individuals to accelerate vehicle-level testing of current and future driver assistance features as we work to deliver advanced driver assistance technology. Vehicle operators are responsible for identifying improvements and regressions in performance or behavior across successive software revisions. The ideal candidate has sound, objective judgment, excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail, and initiative. This position may require flexibility to travel domestically and internationally to test vehicles on public roads, test tracks, and proving grounds. You must also be able to adapt to a flexible work schedule, which may include working at least one weekend day per week. Availability to work day, evening, or night shifts is required. You will drive engineering vehicles in designated areas to collect data, working approximately five to eight hours per day. You will start and stop recording devices as needed and perform basic checks and troubleshooting of equipment and software. You will analyze and report on the quality of data collected during each shift, provide feedback, and propose process improvements to optimize data collection. You will prepare detailed daily driving reports documenting observations and issues. Before each shift, you will check the vehicle’s safety and operational condition. You will survey assigned areas and design routes that include scenarios suitable for validating advanced driver assistance technology. You will learn and become proficient in the latest driver assistance software and related vehicle features. You will conduct on-road tests based on test specifications and provide ad hoc support for scenarios requested individually. You will also assist with other vehicle engineering tests as needed.

EN: BusinessJP: Business

Network Engineer (Japanese & English), Commercial Energy Storage, Japan

This role will support sites in both Japan and Australia, with Japan being the primary focus; the candidate must be fluent in verbal and written Japanese. The role is open to candidates in both Japan and Australia. The global energy market is currently undergoing a once in a generation transformation. Tesla Energy is at the forefront of this transition, deploying massive BESS systems across the APAC region, helping to stabilise electrical grids and reduce carbon emissions. The Tesla Energy Network Engineering Team is key to ensuring these critical assets are online and operating day and night without fail. Tesla are seeking a motivated network engineer to be part of the multi-functional OT team in APAC. The ideal candidate will specialise in network engineering, with experience in network automation. OT experience and server experience, are preferred, but not required. This role will provide networking and server implementation, management, and automation, and will contribute to a global network architecture, ensuring we meet internal and external customer requirements and industry regulations. If you have a bias for action, don’t shy away from difficult problems, and want to gain experience in a high-performing team that delivers, please consider applying. The role involves deploying networks for new industrial energy sites in Japan and Australia; maintaining existing network solutions; collaborating with Network and Server Engineers on designs and initiatives; serving as a Tier 2-3 escalation point; gathering requirements, analysing and proposing networking solutions; provisioning, implementing, testing, validating, and maintaining networking services; conducting product POC evaluations; monitoring, analysing, and reporting network service metrics; documenting processes and information in knowledgebases and operational run-books; implementing automation; and participating in an on-call rotation. Travel is required as necessary: 15% within Japan and up to 50% if outside Japan. Occasional weekend, after-hours, and holiday work is required, as is the ability to lift 55lbs/25kg.

EN: BusinessJP: Native

Externalengineeringdevops

Staff Platform Engineer, CI/CD

Our DevOps team owns two main areas: cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes, networking, security and the Coder development environment, and build infrastructure across GitHub, Bazel, Buildkite, testing and related developer tooling. The two engineers we’re hiring will be the start of our local DevOps presence in Japan, part of a follow-the-sun support model with our UK and US teams. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll help build, operate and improve the cloud platforms, build systems and continuous integration and delivery infrastructure that support Wayve’s software development lifecycle. Working as part of a global team, you’ll create reliable, scalable, secure and efficient environments for software development, testing, deployment and release. As one of the first two DevOps engineers in Japan, you’ll combine hands-on project work with local coverage for Wayve’s global developer-support model during normal Japan working hours. You’ll build, operate and improve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and build systems that support development, testing and production, primarily in Azure. You’ll develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, automation and developer tooling for reliable, repeatable delivery; operate and scale CI/CD services, including build agents, runners, artifact storage, distributed execution, caching and containerised workloads; implement observability, monitor system health, and troubleshoot infrastructure, pipeline, build and deployment issues; optimise cloud systems for performance, reliability, security and cost efficiency; work with engineering teams across Japan, the UK and the US to ensure platforms meet application needs and support scalable software delivery; and contribute to the DevOps support channel, incident response and root cause analysis, reducing manual operations through automation.

EN: BusinessJP: Not RequiredVisa: Available

Product Manager and Application Engineering Lead

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. All employees share a strong sense of purpose and passion as the company continues to grow rapidly. In addition to the world’s leading electric vehicles (EVs), Tesla offers a diverse range of businesses and products that support this mission, including energy products such as solar power and battery storage, as well as next-generation technologies and products such as AI and robotics. Tesla’s Energy division offers battery storage and solar power products that support sustainable energy. In Japan, it provides battery storage products such as Megapack and Powerwall. The business is growing rapidly, making this a unique opportunity to gain valuable experience. The team is small and highly capable, and offers an environment where you can take ownership of a broad range of responsibilities, from planning through execution. The Energy division works primarily through direct communication with teams in Australia and the United States, and also collaborates closely with Tesla teams around the world. In this role, you will expand the reach of Tesla’s energy products in Japan and lead product development that takes into account Japan-specific regulations, technical requirements, and needs. As part of the Product Engineering team, you will ensure the optimal performance of residential energy products. You will work with engineers in Japan and overseas to drive the resolution of technical challenges involved in implementing and rolling out services such as VPP and V2X in Japan. You will accurately understand the differences between the specifications and features of existing products and what is required in Japan, communicate the need for development logically to internal development teams using data and other evidence, and manage projects.

EN: BusinessJP: Business

Externalengineeringdevops

Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Our Cloud Infrastructure team builds, operates, and improves the shared cloud platforms that support Wayve’s engineering organisation. We work with engineering teams to create secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure that meets application needs and supports scalable software delivery. As a Platform Engineer, you’ll work across cloud foundations, Terraform, Kubernetes, developer environments, observability, and FinOps. This is a hands-on role with opportunities to deepen your expertise in cloud infrastructure and governance, security and FinOps tooling, automation, observability, and platform engineering. You’ll build and operate secure, scalable cloud environments with consistent governance and standards; develop Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, and self-service tooling that make infrastructure provisioning and change safe and repeatable; own the lifecycle and governance of Kubernetes clusters, continuously improving how they are provisioned, configured, upgraded, maintained, and recovered; operate and improve shared developer environments and observability platforms; work with engineering teams to ensure platforms meet application needs and support scalable software delivery; and contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of infrastructure and operational practices. You’ll work on secure, reliable, and scalable shared cloud infrastructure with consistent governance and standards; Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code, and self-service tooling; Kubernetes cluster lifecycle and governance; shared developer environments and observability platforms; and security and FinOps tooling, automation, and improvements to infrastructure reliability and operational practices.

EN: BusinessJP: Not RequiredVisa: Available