Uses publisher and bookstore logistics and sales data to develop book-demand forecasts, recommendations, and inventory and delivery optimization. The role spans generative-AI data enrichment through model deployment and operation in products.
About this role
PubteX, a company formed to make Japan's publishing distribution sustainable through digital transformation, with Marubeni and the publishers Kodansha, Shogakukan and Shueisha behind it, is hiring a QA Engineer for its AI Supply Chain Solutions division. The engineer secures the quality of the company's SaaS products together with the system development members of the AI publishing and book-distribution business unit, which aims to grow to more than 50 people.
The work is quality assurance: improving development and test processes and raising product quality. Specific duties are system test planning, creating test items and running tests; editing user manuals; analyzing quality and development metrics; and proposing improvements and measures that raise product quality. The product stack includes Python and TypeScript, Airflow, dbt, Dagster, LightGBM, React Router, Hono and FastAPI on Google Cloud (BigQuery, AlloyDB, Cloud Run and more), with Terraform, Ansible and GitHub Actions.
No formal qualification list is given. Because the company is newly founded, new posts are being created and the role can grow toward senior management, and it suits people who want to work across publishers, distributors and bookstores to reform the industry.
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