- Location
- Tokyo
- Employment
- Full-time
- Japanese
- Japanese?
- Posted
- 2026-08-10
- Category
- Software & IT
About this role
This Forward Deployed Engineer will work on a new project that automates operations for food-distribution companies, including manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers. The role involves entering customer workplaces, understanding complex processes that still rely heavily on fax, paper, and Excel, and turning operational problems into practical AI-agent solutions.
The engineer will interview customers and study their workflows to identify the underlying issues, organize those issues structurally, and propose concrete solutions. Based on proof-of-concept findings, the role designs systems for real-world operation by combining AI-OCR, unstructured-data pipelines, and Durable Workflow technologies.
Responsibilities cover the full delivery cycle. The engineer prototypes solutions, implements them in production, and supports adoption and ongoing improvement after deployment. Development includes frontend and backend features as well as AI-agent harnesses, using Coding Agent tools as part of the development process. The role also includes designing guardrails, using fine-tuning where appropriate, and operating feedback loops based on actual use so that the delivered value can be improved continuously.
The project is a CEO-directed initiative built on knowledge and business connections developed through the Kurashiru recipe video platform. It addresses inefficiencies in the food-distribution industry and is expanding toward Kurashiru AI OS for consumer-goods industries such as food and daily necessities. The work connects customer discovery, requirements definition, solution architecture, software implementation, and operational improvement rather than focusing only on coding.
The stated development stack is provisional and may change. It includes full-stack TypeScript with Bun, Hono, Elysia, and TanStack Start; AWS and Terraform for cloud infrastructure; and Langfuse for LLM observability. The listed work location is in Minato, Tokyo, at msb Tamachi Tamachi Station Tower N.
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