Consulting

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your role and responsibilities

- Our division collaborates with clients across a wide range of industries to create and grow digital services/products with a strong focus on customer experience.

- With the rapid advancement of generative AI technologies—especially large language models (LLMs)—the demand for designing and developing AI agents is increasing significantly. We are seeking new team members to help meet this demand.

[Position Overview]

- Individuals with hands-on experience in designing and developing AI agents using LLMs and related technologies

- Those who enjoy keeping up with academic research and emerging technologies, and are eager to apply their knowledge in practice

- Candidates interested in playing a key role—potentially as an engineering manager—in launching a new team that drives the development of competitive digital services/products using AI

[What Makes This Role Attractive]

- Opportunity to co-create advanced generative AI use cases with some of Japan’s leading enterprises

Gain deep, hands-on experience in the real-world and high-stakes application of AI in business environments

- Work in a highly collaborative environment with passionate teammates who are enthusiastic about the latest technologies

Required education Bachelor's Degree Preferred education Master's Degree Required technical and professional expertise

[Required Core Skills and Experience]

- Currently residing in Japan and fluent at a native level in either Japanese or English (proficiency in one language is sufficient)

- Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with both team members and clients

- Proven experience in leading business process design, product architecture, and operational design while coordinating across multiple departments

- Practical experience integrating and operating LLMs or other machine learning models within products

- Ability to independently explore rapidly evolving AI-related services and tools, and quickly turn ideas into prototypes

- Capacity to swiftly learn and apply new technologies—especially AI-related tools—in a business context

- Hands-on experience using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, GPT-3/4, or similar

[Technical Stack (Expected Environment)]

Backend: Python (FastAPI), TypeScript, GraphQL

Web Frontend: TypeScript, React (Next.js)

Mobile Apps: Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native

Databases: PostgreSQL, etc.

Middleware / AI Services: Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, etc.

Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.

Source Control: GitHub

Preferred technical and professional experience

- Experience in developing and operating large-scale web or mobile applications

- Proven track record in designing and developing applications and APIs that deliver excellent user experiences

- Experience in launching new businesses or driving product improvements and growth based on customer feedback

- Hands-on experience in designing applications with a strong focus on availability, security, and fault tolerance

Job Title [IBM Japan:iX] AI Software Engineer Job ID 47949 City / Township / Village Tokyo State / Province Tokyo Country Japan Work arrangement Hybrid Area of work Consulting Employment type Regular Position type Professional Travel required Up to 20% or 1 day a week Company (7600) IBM Japan, Ltd. Shift General (daytime) Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position? No