ML Engineer

NaLaLys Minatoku, Tokyo September 29 2026
  • 💴 ¥8.4M ~ ¥10.8M annually
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 💬
    Fluent Japanese
    No English required
  • 🧪
    Senior level
    5+ years experience required
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About NaLaLys

NaLaLys Minatoku, Tokyo

NaLaLys builds AI-driven SaaS products that help enterprises detect and prevent internal fraud, misconduct, and compliance violations. Our Compliance Cloud platform automatically analyzes emails, chat messages, and voice calls to identify risks before they escalate. Since launching in 2023, we have been adopted by major enterprise clients across Japan and are now evolving into a comprehensive compliance platform.

About the position

NaLaLys is an AI startup building products that help companies detect and prevent compliance risks such as fraud, harassment, and information leaks.

They’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to work across the full lifecycle of their AI systems, from model development and data processing to inference infrastructure and production operations.

Tech stack

  • Frontend: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS
  • Backend: Python, Go, Node.js
  • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • Infrastructure: AWS, Docker
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions
  • Communication: Slack, Notion
  • Issue tracking: GitHub

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and operate LLM-based risk detection pipelines
  • Improve detection accuracy and support new data sources and risk categories
  • Work on prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and model evaluation
  • Prepare and improve training data
  • Design experiments and evaluate their results
  • Build and operate GPU inference environments using technologies such as vLLM and CUDA
  • Optimize the performance and cost of AI workloads
  • Improve the reliability of production systems
  • Support deployments to on-premises environments
  • Investigate production issues and implement improvements
  • Design detection logic and run PoCs for new use cases
  • Work with customers and business teams on technical proposals
  • Participate in architecture decisions, design reviews, and code reviews

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
    • Including 3+ years of professional experience with Python
  • Experience developing and operating systems using LLMs, including:
    • Prompt engineering
    • Model evaluation
    • Operating inference servers such as vLLM, TGI, or llama.cpp
  • Experience fine-tuning LLMs, including preparing training data, training models, and evaluating results
  • Experience owning an ML or LLM system from requirements definition through production operation
  • Experience with Git and GitHub-based team development
  • Professional experience using compute, storage, and batch processing services on AWS or GCP
  • Experience designing controlled experiments and evaluating their results
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher
  • Previous experience working at a Japanese company and be able to communicate professionally in Japanese.

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Experience operating training or inference infrastructure for large language models
  • Experience developing AI agents
  • Experience troubleshooting GPU environments
  • Experience with AWS Batch, BigQuery, or Terraform
  • Experience with speech recognition or audio processing
  • Knowledge of information security, DLP, or compliance
  • Experience deploying systems to on-premises or closed-network environments
  • Experience using AI coding agents
  • Experience as a tech lead or mentor

Compensation

¥8,400,000 ~ ¥10,800,000 annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Application screening

  2. 2

    Three online interviews

  3. 3

    Reference interviews

  4. 4

    Final interview at NaLaLys's headquarters

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