Engineering Jobs in Japan
Japan's tech scene is hiring international engineers. Browse frontend, backend, mobile, DevOps, data, and machine learning roles at companies that welcome English-speaking talent. Many offer remote work, visa sponsorship, and no Japanese requirement.
109 open positions
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ShiseidoThe DX&AIX Strategy Division formulates AI strategies for business transformation based on Shiseido Japan's business strategy and promotes company-wide AI Transformation (AIX). By creating an environment that maximizes the use of AI, we aim to maximize productivity and ensure Shiseido's sustainable growth and competitive advantage through innovation utilizing advanced AI technologies and a robust data foundation. The ML Engineer is responsible for promoting the construction of an AI-Ready data foundation while collecting, managing, and maintaining data as a strategic asset for the company, maximizing its value. In a traditional company representing Japan with a 150-year history, this role goes beyond merely building and operating data foundations; it consistently undertakes the collection and utilization of data from business operations to realize a company-wide data-driven transformation.
Senior Substrate Engineer
AMDAt AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career. The role involves leading technology development and supply chain bring up of advanced substrate technologies to support AMD product roadmap. The candidate should have a proven track record in developing advanced packaging technologies at a substrate supplier, OSAT or Fabless/IDM, as well as identifying and enabling new substrate. He/she should have a hands-on approach to new process development with a deep knowledge of packaging and board design rules, process flows and materials. They should have excellent oral and written communication skills to communicate ideas and technology target requirements with suppliers, internal partners, product architects and AMD management. Key responsibilities include defining advanced substrate and board technology roadmap across pitch scaling, power delivery, signal integrity and cost vectors, partnering with AMD architects, designers, and product owners to define high yielding, cost effective substrate solutions which meet product requirements, selecting development partners to bring into AMD supply chain to enable industry leading substrate and PCB technology building blocks, partnering with product, quality and manufacturing engineering teams to meet various milestones for manufacturability, yield and reliability from concept through NPI, and qualifying package substrates of new products meeting cost and yield targets.
Senior Device Engineer - Core Technologies Section, Corporate IT Infrastructure Department (CITID)
RakutenThe Technology Management Division (TMD) provides Corporate IT, and Cyber Security & Privacy Governance to Rakuten Group companies and essential business management for technology organizations, thereby enabling innovation and strengthening the technology foundation. Within TMD, the Corporate IT Supervisory Department (CITD) drives Rakuten Group’s global corporate IT services and infrastructure. Our mission is to empower Rakuten through innovative and secure IT solutions that enhance efficiency and foster productivity. The Corporate IT Infrastructure Department (CITID) provides the stable and reliable technological foundation that supports Rakuten's global business operations. We deliver simple, secure, and robust infrastructure services with operational and engineering excellence, managing core infrastructure, enterprise collaboration platforms, development support tools and project management. We're looking for a motivated Senior Device Engineer within the Corporate IT Department to support the evaluation, improvement, and documentation of our corporate device environment. The candidate will also be responsible for global implementation and operation of management technologies across macOS, Windows and mobile devices. Manage and administer client system infrastructure. Creation of scripts and/or policies for the deployment of application and settings. Drive a client security-focused model and maintain best practices in an global enterprise environment. Investigate, diagnose and deploy fixes for unique and complex systemic problems. Coordinate and perform well-organized and timely deployments of application, major upgrades, security updates and patches. Planning and administration of enterprise Operating Systems and application software including deployment and package management. Work together with other global members as a combined global escalation point between different support teams for device and client issues. Collaborate and work with cross-functional teams to manage client systems as they relate to internal infrastructure.
ML Operations Engineer (AI/LLM) - Mercari
MercariFor more details, see the Overview of Our Positions section on our Careers site. As an MLOps engineer on the AI/LLM team, you will own how our machine learning and LLM models reach production and stay healthy there in our cloud-native environment. Your focus is the production serving, deployment, and operations that turn models into reliable, cost-efficient services, seamlessly integrating with our machine learning operations to serve tens of millions of users. Build and operate the production ML serving and Data Orchestration platform behind Mercari Group's AI and LLM features, serving tens of millions of users. Drive the strategy for model inference at scale, bridging the gap between complex data retrieval and fast-moving ML model inference to ensure high-performance, cost-effective service delivery. Shape Mercari's next-generation LLM serving stack, from inference optimization (quantization, dynamic batching, KV caching) to the evaluation and execution infrastructure needed for emerging agentic AI workloads.
Data Platform FinOps Specialist - Data Platform Department (DPD)
RakutenAs a Data Platform FinOps Specialist at Rakuten Group's Data Platform Department, you will drive the FinOps & Cost Optimisation function for data workloads - BigQuery, Databricks, Azure, and Snowflake - across over 70 business units. You will build cost-visibility dashboards, operate the monthly FinOps review cycle, implement GCP committed-use discount strategies, and translate spend data into actionable optimisation recommendations that directly reduce platform unit costs. You will build and maintain cost visibility dashboards covering BigQuery (slots and on-demand), Databricks DBU, and Snowflake credit consumption, broken down by BU, team, project, and workload. You will own the spend attribution model - implement chargeback and showback frameworks so BU finance teams can see and own their data platform costs. You will identify and act on GCP CUD (Committed Use Discount) optimisation: analyse slot commitment vs. on-demand patterns and recommend right-sizing and reservation changes. You will run monthly unused-asset cleanup cycles: identify idle datasets, dormant pipelines, and over-provisioned clusters, and coordinate decommission with data owners. You will operate the monthly FinOps review with BU finance stakeholders - prepare spend summaries, variance analysis, and savings tracking. You will instrument GCP billing APIs and Dataplex cost metadata to automate cost tagging and anomaly alerting. You will partner with the Platform Engineering team to embed FinOps guardrails in CI/CD pipeline templates (cost estimation pre-deploy, budget alerts). You will contribute to the platform unit economics model - cost per query, cost per pipeline run, and cost per BU workspace.
Rail Consultant
ArupThe Arup rail business in Japan covers three areas (advisory, infrastructure and systems engineering). Advisory encompasses strategy consulting, financial consulting, management consulting, operation consulting and foresight services. Infrastructure and railway systems relate to design, engineering and technical consultancy at corporate and project level, covering civil engineering for railway infrastructure (railway stations, track works, etc.), E&M systems (signalling, rolling stock, traction power, communications, etc.), and systems engineering in railway projects (project management, system assurance, quality assurance, testing & commission, etc.). This position’s primary focus points are: Work at consultant level on advisory projects and engineer level on engineering and consultancy projects within the Arup railway business. Manage projects including technical delivery and service performance. Focus on advisory projects as team member or consultant. Primary focus domain covers (but is not limited to) government-commissioned research related to railways. Support (depending on skills and project nature) rail engineering projects related to the Arup railway business. Support the infrastructure business in rail systems capacity, e.g. providing domain skills on interfaces to railway systems. Manage (depending on skills and project nature) the production of drawings, plans, reports and other deliverables. Coordinate and liaise with external parties in producing advisory deliverables and consultancy to clients. Assist Business Development and Sales activities performed by the Team. Interface with Clients, Team and other stakeholders during project delivery and other activities. At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.
Bosch Corporation JMP Electrified Motion Division Development
BoschThis is a position for a promising project leader in the global automotive industry. Initially, you will engage in large-scale and global projects with key Japanese customers, gaining practical experience in project management and cross-cultural collaboration. As your responsibilities expand, you will proactively lead more specialized tasks and gradually prepare to take charge of individual projects. Through close collaboration with a global team across different cultures, you will enhance your technical, organizational, and intercultural skills. Since our projects are globally structured, opportunities for overseas assignments are encouraged. The long-term goal is for you to autonomously and confidently manage entire projects within Bosch's global environment. Would you like to become a project manager recognized by Bosch in the Electrified Motion Division? Bosch has established methods for developing project managers on a global scale, including skills, business acumen, leadership, and a wide range of systematic capabilities.
Vehicle Diagnostics Customer Solution Engineer
BoschETAS provides integrated authoring services and software solutions related to repair and service information and in-vehicle manuals for OEMs. These services are available to all who need them, including manufacturing sites, maintenance shops, and end users. We are looking for a Customer Solution Engineer to support the growth of the VIS product business in Japan, particularly for Vehicle Health Assistant and ActiveSchematics. This position will be responsible for customer interactions and will serve as the primary technical contact connecting Japanese OEMs with the VIS global organization. The role involves understanding the needs of the Japanese market, identifying customer challenges, and translating the VIS product offerings into solutions suitable for the Japanese market. Key responsibilities include acting as the main technical contact for Japanese OEMs and strategic customers regarding VIS solutions, collecting, analyzing, and structuring customer requirements into clear business requirements and technical specifications, discussing solutions and system integration architecture with customer engineering teams to ensure alignment with VIS product architecture, identifying market-specific business opportunities and driving the development of local solutions for the Japanese market, supporting customer workshops, demonstrations, proof of concepts (PoC), and pilot projects, providing technical consulting during sales activities and customer onboarding, coordinating implementation activities to ensure smooth adoption and integration of solutions by customers, representing the "voice of the customer" within the global organization, and collaborating with product owners and global development teams to prioritize feature improvements based on customer needs. Additionally, the role requires continuous monitoring of industry trends, maintenance business processes, AI utilization, and competitive dynamics in the Japanese automotive market.
Renewable Energy Engineer (2026 Graduate Program)
Mott MacdonaldAs a Graduate or Early Career Renewable Energy Engineer, you will enter to the world of opportunities where our leaders will dedicate their time in trainings and equip you with advanced knowledge. What's more, you will get access to high technology and real-time technical software that will enable you to work on projects across East Asia region with support from our global team. You will be challenged with innovative projects and will be able to explore through varied nature of projects and complexity, to build insights. You will be working with solar, wind, energy storage and hydrogen experts and other disciplines of professionals to deliver prestigious schemes in East Asia and elsewhere. Moreover, you will get extensive job mentoring, trainings and coaching, career opportunities and development through a variety of activities that help you to achieve your professional goals with our positive working environment. You will also get wider experience, such as through travelling to other offices, site visits and other areas for better exposure of our work.
Senior Computer Vision/Machine Learning Engineer, Digital Twin Platform
Woven by ToyotaWoven City – Social Infrastructures & Platforms / Employee / Hybrid Toyota is redefining what it means to move. We're challenging the current state of mobility by enhancing the movement of people, goods, information and energy. Centered around three core concepts - A Living Laboratory™, Human-Centered, and Ever Evolving City™ - Woven City serves as a test course for mobility to fulfill our purpose of well-being for all. We do this by bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility to co-create, develop and refine innovative products and services. This cross-section of social infrastructure, mobility, and people provides a unique opportunity for inventors, residents and visitors to interact seamlessly with new technologies throughout daily life in an environment that emulates a real city. Our team, Digital Twin Platform, as one of the core Social Infrastructure/Common Platform teams under the Woven City umbrella, is responsible for the realization of Woven City's vision: "Expand mobility. Enhance humanity. Engage society" by developing a robust software platform, on one hand to enable inventors and business owners to “test” their products in a virtual environment before deploying to the physical Woven City; on the other hand, to create analytics to assist in decision making based on both simulated results and more importantly operational data collected from the physical city, such as residents daily life, traffic dynamics, energy consumption, etc. As the Digital Twin Platform is still in its early growth phase, you'll have the rare chance to influence not just what we build but how we bring it to market and experiment with different business models as the platform and its commercial strategy mature together. We’re looking for a Senior Computer Vision and Machine Learning Engineer who can go beyond integrating pre-built APIs and off-the-shelf pipelines. You’ll design, train, evaluate, and optimize models at a deep technical level, applying them to real-world challenges across logistics hubs, distribution centers, and factories. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll be expected to lead technical direction, define standards, and operate with a high degree of autonomy. You will shape how the team approaches hard problems, influence architecture across the CV/ML stack, and help grow the engineers around you. Your work may include detecting and tracking workers, vehicles, and packages; analyzing space utilization; and interpreting worker activity to identify productive workflows and operational inefficiencies. We value candidates with a strong research background, including PhD-level expertise in a relevant field. However, a PhD is not required, we also welcome engineers with substantial applied experience and a comparable level of technical rigor. You’ll join a small, high-ownership team where your technical judgment will directly shape both the product’s direction and its real-world impact.