BJAK is seeking a Founding AI Software Engineer to build the intelligent systems that power our digital insurance platform, serving millions of users across Southeast Asia. You will define machine learning goals, design and deploy models, and integrate AI outputs directly into user-facing products and backend systems.
What You'll Do
- Work with product, data, and engineering teams to define ML goals and technical strategies.
- Design, build, and deploy machine learning models that power personalization, automation, and insight generation.
- Manage the ML lifecycle: data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
- Build scalable ML infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Integrate ML outputs into user-facing products and backend systems.
- Stay current with AI/ML trends and apply relevant innovations into our stack.
- Contribute to debugging, testing, and optimization of production ML systems.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 2 - 4 years of experience in machine learning or backend software development.
- Strong Python skills, with experience using frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn.
- Solid understanding of ML workflows: data cleaning, model development, tuning, evaluation.
- Familiar with model deployment, API development, or real-world ML integration.
- Experience with tools like Google Colab, Jupyter, and cloud ML platforms.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Must be based in Japan and open to remote collaboration across time zones.
Nice to Have
- Experience with NLP, computer vision, or recommendation systems.
- Familiarity with cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Exposure to Docker, Git, or CI/CD tools.
- Background working in a high-growth startup or agile product environment.
Technical Stack
- Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn
- Google Colab, Jupyter, Cloud ML platforms
- Docker, Git, CI/CD tools
- AWS, GCP, Azure
Team & Environment
A lean, high-impact engineering environment with a fast-paced, flat team structure.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
- Flexible, fully remote work arrangement from anywhere in Japan
- Direct impact - your work reaches millions of users across Asia
- Flat structure - your voice is heard, your contributions are seen
- Opportunities for rapid personal and technical growth
- Regional exposure and collaboration across Southeast Asia
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position. You must be based in Japan.