AI R&D Engineer (VLM/Multimodal / LLM New Business) (Dev)English summary from Japanese

Must-haves

• Master's degree in Science or Engineering
• Experience in application development or PoC execution utilizing LLM or VLM
• Experience in R&D or service development using Python
• Basic understanding of RAG mechanisms
• Ability to research and verify unknown technical domains (especially multimodal models)
• Must be able to reside in Japan
• Must be able to communicate smoothly in Japanese (technical details related to development, conversational level目安)

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of image processing/Computer Vision (OCR, layout analysis, object detection, etc.)
• Experience comparing and verifying multiple VLM models and configuring pipelines
• Ability to research papers (ArXiv, etc.) and implement them
• Experience translating customer challenges into technical problems and proposing solutions

Tech stack

Work style

Primarily full remote. Residence must be within Japan. Employees in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama can choose remote/office freely. Others can visit office once a month. Flextime system with core hours 10:00-14:00.

Other notes

Monthly Salary: ¥625,000 - ¥1,084,000 (Estimated Annual Salary: ¥7,500,000 - ¥13,008,000). Probationary period: 3 months. Includes Growth Acceleration Fund (subsidy for self-improvement/AI utilization up to ¥240,000/year).