- Location
- Tokyo
- Employment
- Full-time
- Japanese
- Japanese?
- Posted
- 2026-08-10
- Category
- Software & IT
About this role
The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) will join a new project focused on automating work in the food distribution industry, covering manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers. The project addresses operations that still rely heavily on fax, paper, Excel files, and other manual processes.
The role combines customer discovery with end-to-end software delivery. The engineer works directly with customer sites, conducts interviews, develops a deep understanding of complex workflows, organizes those workflows structurally, identifies underlying problems, and proposes concrete solutions. Responsibilities extend from problem discovery and prototyping through production implementation, deployment, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
For solution design, the engineer uses proof-of-concept findings to combine AI-OCR, unstructured-data pipelines, and Durable Workflow technology into systems designed for real operational use. The implementation scope covers frontend and backend development as well as construction of an AI-agent harness. Coding Agents are expected to be used extensively as part of the development approach.
After deployment, the engineer designs guardrails, performs fine-tuning, and uses feedback from actual operations to improve the delivered solution. The position is intended for a full-stack builder who can translate customer requirements and operational problems into implemented solutions rather than focusing only on coding.
The project is positioned directly under the CEO and is developing AI-agent automation for the food distribution industry. It builds on industry knowledge and a network developed through the Kurashiru recipe-video service, with data spanning consumers, food and beverage manufacturers, and retail. A broader initiative is developing Kurashiru AI OS for consumer-goods industries including food and daily necessities. The project aims to structure unstructured operational data so that it can be used as context for AI-driven automation.
The stated application stack is full-stack TypeScript with Bun, Hono, Elysia, and TanStack Start. The cloud environment includes AWS and Terraform, and Langfuse is named for LLM observability. The posting notes that this technology stack is provisional and may change.
The stated work location is Tokyo, at 〒108-0023 東京都港区芝浦3丁目1－1 msb Tamachi 田町ステーションタワーN 23階.
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