Forward Deployed Engineer - Japan
Core
Embed directly with customer teams to design, ship, and maintain production-grade AI agents and workflows on live business processes.
Role type
Senior forward-deployed AI solutions engineer
Builds
Production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows integrated into customer engineering orgs
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Software Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, AI agents, tool-calling, eval harnesses, CI/CD, production debugging, system architecture
Preferred skills
Customer-facing role experience, retrieval and context systems, AI-native coding workflows, forward-deployed engineer experience
Technologies
Grok models, Colossus supercomputers, MCP servers, X platform
Responsibilities
Lead discovery with customers to define success metrics and use cases; Design and ship production agents on live business processes; Harden systems with rollout, monitoring, and iteration; Own production quality including tracing, evals, and debugging; Build supporting systems (tools, retrieval, CI gates) and integrate with customer auth/data; Measure outcomes like revenue, cost, and error rates; Leave customers able to run built systems and improve SpaceXSI products
