BJAK is looking for a Founding AI Software Engineer to build intelligent systems that power personalized recommendations, fraud detection, automation, and search for our digital insurance platform serving millions across Southeast Asia. You will define ML goals and strategies, design and deploy models, and manage the full ML lifecycle in our fast-paced, remote-first startup environment.
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.
- Strong proficiency in Python is a must.
- 2 - 4 years of experience in machine learning or backend software development.
- 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
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.
BJAK is an equal opportunity employer.
