Software Engineer

Applied Compute

Applied Compute

Software Engineering

Tokyo, Japan

Posted on Apr 22, 2026

Location

Tokyo

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Vehicle OS

About Tokyo

Applied Intuition entered the Japan market in 2019. The company has rapidly grown and established strategic relationships with major Japanese automotive OEM customers. Based in Otemachi area, the Tokyo site consists of more than 60 employees who previously come from Woven by Toyota, Mobileye, TIER IV, Google, Siemens and other renowned companies. We are hiring our first new graduate class - want to learn more?

About the role

We are looking for a software engineer with a passion for improving developer experience and deployment processes. In this role, you will work across engineering teams to identify key sources of friction, improve workflows, develop new tools, and generally uplevel the velocity and reliability of the entire software, and automotive development and deployment lifecycle.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

  • Design, build, and improve the tools, libraries, and frameworks for our engineering team

  • Build and test scalable tools for deploying to various automotive and cloud platforms

  • Optimize our compile/build times using tools like Bazel, CMake, Docker

  • Improve software deployment and data collection frameworks

  • Identify and solve bottlenecks within our software stack

We're looking for someone who has:

  • 5+ years of relevant experience

  • Fluency in both English and Japanese (written and verbal), with the ability to operate effectively in a bilingual business environment

  • Experience working directly with customers

  • Some experience using Python, Go, Java, or Kotlin

  • Experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Bazel, Buildkite, Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins, and comfortability with scripting for automation

  • Experience with Linux and/or ARM systems

  • Experience working with configuration management tools like Ansible and Terraform

Nice to have:

  • Experience using C and C++

  • Experience working in automotive or related industries

  • Experience with deploying software on either public clouds (e.g., AWS) or on-premise clusters

Benefits and perks:

  • Lunch and dinner allowance

  • Equity (RSU) offering

  • English / Japanese language allowance

  • Company sponsored housing program

  • Pension plan (確定拠出年金)