★MLOps Engineer | Global Internet Business
- Business Level Japanese Required
✦Flextime & Fully Remote Work
✦Many Foreign Employees & Global Business
✦Start-up Company
✦Aiming to promote DX in the manufacturing industry
★Annual salary: 7 million yen - 12 million yen
-------------【About the company】-------------
【Unleashing the potential of the manufacturing industry】
The company will create a society in which all people involved in manufacturing can maximize their inherent power.
To achieve this goal, they will create a "new mechanism" that will change the common sense of industry.
Busy with estimating and administrative tasks, lacking sales skills, and lacking information and networks.
By untying these shackles, the potential of each company can be unleashed.
From small factories in town, to large manufacturers with a long history, to start-ups in their early years, all manufacturing companies will shine by leveraging their strengths to create new value.
They will continue to take on the challenge to open up such a future.
◆Flat organization
Regardless of your position, team, previous experience, gender, age, etc., you can express your opinions and immediately incorporate what is good.
◆Excellent members
The team is made up of members who have been active in leading companies. You will have an environment where there is a growth and stimulation every day.
◆Engineer Driven
Since they are operating in a field where there are no precedents yet in the world, technical skills are extremely important, and engineers play a leading role.
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◎A service that uses automated quotation technology to connect custom-orderers with processing companies.
The manufacturing industry is Japan's key industry, boasting a gross domestic product of 180 trillion yen.
In fact, about 120 trillion yen of that is accounted for by the cost of parts procurement.
Despite this large percentage, there has been no major innovation in the procurement field for over 100 years.
In particular, parts procurement for the high-mix low-volume production industry, which accounts for about one-third of the total, has been facing various social issues on both the ordering and receiving sides, such as the time and effort required for ordering and quotation, procurement costs, and the high deficit ratio on the production side.
They believed that by solving these problems, manufacturers not only in Japan but also around the world would be able to focus on higher value-added work and maximize the potential of the manufacturing industry as a whole.
So, the company developed the world's first service that uses automated quotation technology to connect custom-orderers with processing companies.
-------------【 Job Description】-------------
【Responsibilities】
The MLOps Engineer is responsible for working with the Machine Learning Engineer to build, maintain, and operate the infrastructure that will enable the ongoing delivery of machine learning and data science models to the service. In addition, you will be expected to build a pipeline for data collection and lead the promotion of data utilization in order to leverage the company's data.
Examples of work are shown below. Actual duties are not limited to these. Your work after you join the company will be determined based on your skills, expertise, experience, and other factors.
API for inference of machine learning models and Batch operating environment, deployment environment using CI/CD
Implementation to improve Site Reliability, including monitoring and performance tuning in the production environment
Development, maintenance, and operation of machine learning processing pipelines on Vertex and Argo Workflow
Cost optimization of inference and learning platforms
Communicate and document processes with modeling and platform personnel
The company's MLOps Engineers will gain experience on a real MLOps product. In addition, depending on your experience and interest, you will have the opportunity to create front-end demos, create new ML models, and expand your skill set in an environment that allows for a wide range of new challenges.
【Recruitment Background】
With the mission of “unlocking the potential of the manufacturing industry,” the company is developing the “CADDi Drawer” data platform product for the manufacturing industry.
Launched in 2022, “CADDi Drawer” enables the utilization of drawing data, which is said to be the most important data in the manufacturing industry, as an information asset by structuring it through various technologies such as machine learning and linking it with various types of information. The system is already being used by customers ranging from major domestic manufacturers to processing companies, and is growing rapidly.
In the future, they aim to realize overall optimization that transcends divisions and companies by using technology to reproduce and consolidate manufacturing industry knowledge in addition to drawings.
In terms of development, there are many themes we would like to tackle, such as enhancing the functionality of the data platform, developing multiple new applications that run on the platform, and strengthening the infrastructure to withstand the dramatically increasing number of users and volume of data.
The company is looking for people who can work together to develop products that are challenging and rewarding.
【About the Team】
Engineers, designers, and product managers are divided into 10 or more teams of 4-6 members each, each working on various function development (drawing utilization, search, estimation, etc.), data infrastructure development, machine learning/MLOps, R&D, enabling (QA/SRE), security, and so on.
The organization is designed based on the concept of team topology, aiming to achieve both “total optimization through standardization across teams” and “ensuring discretion and speed of each team.
20% of development members are from overseas (Asia, Europe, North America, etc.). Some of the teams communicate mainly in English, and important meetings are held in both Japanese and English so that they can create an organization in which multinational members can play an active role.
【Development Environment】
Language
Front-end: TypeScript
Backend: Rust, TypeScript, Python
Frameworks and libraries
Frontend: React, Next.js, WebGL, WebAssembly
Backend: Rust (axum), Node.js (Express, Fastify, NestJS), PyTorch
Infrastructure: Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine, Anthos Service Mesh
Database/Data Warehouse: CloudSQL (PostgreSQL), AlloyDB, Firestore, BigQuery
API: GraphQL, REST, gRPC
Monitoring: Datadog, Sentry, Cloud Monitoring
Environment construction: Terraform
CI/CD: Github Actions
Authentication: Auth0
Development Tools: GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Figma, Storybook
Communication tools: Slack, Discord, JIRA, Miro, Confluence
-------------【 Requirements】-------------
■Required
Experience in developing and operating services using cloud services such as Google Cloud and AWS
Basic knowledge of container technologies such as Docker
Experience in team development and operations using Git and CI/CD
Experience in application development using Python, Rust, Go, Java, Scala, Kotlin, C++, etc.
Fluent business communication skills in Japanese
Ability to complete daily tasks in Japanese, including text communication and meetings
■Preferred
Experience developing machine learning pipelines using Vertex AI Pipeline, kubeflow, Apache Beam, Spark, etc.
Experience in development related to MLOps and SRE
Experience collaborating with ML Engineers to continuously improve and deliver machine learning and data science models
Experience developing for load and scalability in large scale services
Experience building and operating Data Lakes and Feature Stores
Experience implementing data quality measures to improve machine learning models in a data-centric manner
Experience in planning and promoting internal and external data utilization initiatives using BigQuery and Redash
Basic knowledge of algorithms related to machine learning, statistics, linear algebra, and computer science
■Ideal Applicants
Empathy with the company's mission and values
Have an eagerness to learn and take on challenges for technologies and things you have no experience with
Willing to catch up with the related technologies required for ML/MLOps
Able to face essential issues and take actions to solve them with a sense of ownership
Able to work through positive attitude and constructive discussions in a fast-changing and uncertain environment
Able to communicate and discuss with others in a respectful manner, taking into account their context and resolution
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【Working Time 】
Flextime System
【 Welfare 】
Full social insurance
Commuting allowance (up to 30,000 yen)
Vacation (summer vacation, year-end and New Year's vacation, refreshment vacation, bereavement vacation, etc.)
Subsidies (moving subsidies, child allowances, marriage congratulation money, etc.)
Medical checkups
Office medicine
Office convenience store
Learning support (book purchase system, language learning support, manufacturing experience, external training support, etc.)
Company-wide awards
Club activities
Engineers can apply for a PC and display with their desired specifications.
※The maximum amount is 400,000 yen, within which you can also purchase accessories for the PC.
※The PC replacement cycle should be at least two years.
【 Holiday 】
- Saturday/Sunday/National Holiday
- Annual Paid Leave
- New Year Holiday
- Special Paid Leave
- Congratulations & Condolence Leave
- Bereavement Leave
- Refresh Leave
- Summer Holiday