Companies hiring data scientists and AI engineers in Japan
As of 2026-10-02, 74 companies have 311 open data science & AI roles in Japan on their own career sites in our index. The most active: Bjak (75), Rakuten (41) and Dxctechnology (31).
Companies with the most open data science & AI roles in Japan
| # | Company | Website | Open roles | ATS | Example role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bjak | – | 75 | Ashby | Applied AI Engineer - AI Finance Agent |
| 2 | Rakuten | – | 41 | Workday | AI Business Planning - AI Product Development Section , Enterprise Solution Development Department , Group Sales Divisio |
| 3 | Dxctechnology | – | 31 | Workday | 【Data &AI】SME (Subject Matter Expert) |
| 4 | Woven by Toyota | – | 12 | Lever | AI Engineer, Driver Workload Estimation |
| 5 | Accenture | – | 10 | Workday | Sr.Manager, Client Solutions Development（Microsoft & Agentic AI）_Client Solutions |
| 6 | Mujin | – | 10 | Lever | 【FA戦略コンサルタント】モノづくり産業の構造改革・産業革命を起こす！エンドツーエンドのフィジカルAI実装！ |
| 7 | OpenAI | – | 10 | Ashby | Applied AI Engineer - Tokyo |
| 8 | Sonyglobal | – | 10 | Workday | Internship - Audio-Visual AI Research Scientist |
| 9 | Appier | – | 9 | Greenhouse | アカウントマネージャー｜AI広告・パフォーマンスマーケティング |
| 10 | LILT (Production) | – | 7 | Ashby | AI Training Contributor - Japanese - Remote |
| 11 | Meridial | – | 6 | Greenhouse | Japanese Language Specialist - Freelance AI Trainer Project |
| 12 | Anthropic | – | 3 | Greenhouse | Applied AI Architect |
| 13 | Nanofiber Quantum Technologies, Inc. | – | 3 | Ashby | Research Scientist (Hardware) |
| 14 | NICE | – | 3 | Greenhouse | Account Executive, Agentic AI |
| 15 | Nvidia | – | 3 | Workday | Senior Customer Technical Program Manager - AI Datacenter |
| 16 | Sierra Japan | – | 3 | Ashby | ソフトウェアエンジニア（AIエージェント） |
| 17 | Tailor | – | 3 | Ashby | AI Engineer |
| 18 | CrowdGen by Appen | – | 2 | Lever | Native Japanese Kansai Dialect Speakers |
| 19 | Crowdstrike | – | 2 | Workday | Specialist Sales, AI Security (AI Detection Response) |
| 20 | Hpe | – | 2 | Workday | AI for Networking Specialist |
| 21 | Jj | – | 2 | Workday | [DS] Data Scientist [MedTech] |
| 22 | Kyndryl | – | 2 | Workday | Director Customer Technology Advisor - Application Data & AI |
| 23 | Liquid AI | – | 2 | Ashby | Member of Technical Staff - ML Scientist, Japanese Multimodal |
| 24 | Micron | – | 2 | Workday | Data Scientist Manager |
| 25 | Paypal | – | 2 | Workday | Data Scientist (Fraud Risk) |
| 26 | RWS TrainAI | – | 2 | Lever | AI Data Specialist - Japanese |
| 27 | Salesforce | – | 2 | Workday | AI Native Delivery Consultant |
| 28 | Snowflake | – | 2 | Ashby | AI Deployment Strategist |
| 29 | Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. | – | 2 | Greenhouse | PlayStation オンラインサービス プラットフォームエンジニア (AI Enabler) |
| 30 | Tencent | – | 2 | Workday | Senior Researcher, Speech Synthesis and Multimodal LLM｜高级研究员 - 语音合成与多模态大模型 |
| 31 | Tenstorrent | – | 2 | Greenhouse | Field Support Engineer - AI Server Systems |
| 32 | Zscaler | – | 2 | Greenhouse | Account Executive, Enterprise - AI |
| 33 | 3m | – | 1 | Workday | Material Modeler/Data Scientist |
| 34 | AIFT | – | 1 | Greenhouse | Machine Learning Engineer Lead, Vulcan (Global) |
| 35 | Aig | – | 1 | Workday | (AIG Sonpo) 営業統括部 AI活用推進スペシャリスト |
| 36 | Astrazeneca | – | 1 | Workday | 【AstraZeneca】【CET】Data Architect Engineering – AI-Ready Data Warehouse Lead, Data & Business Intelligence |
| 37 | Autodesk | – | 1 | Workday | Senior Technical Adoption Specialist, AEC & AI, Japan |
| 38 | Automationanywhere | – | 1 | Workday | AI Engineer |
| 39 | Box | – | 1 | Greenhouse | SE Architect (API / AI) |
| 40 | Cisco | – | 1 | Workday | AI Hyperspecialist Account Executive – AI & Agentic Systems Japan |
| 41 | Citadel AI | – | 1 | Ashby | AI ソリューション・コンサルタント |
| 42 | Cloudera | – | 1 | Workday | Forward Deployed AI Engineer |
| 43 | Cognition | – | 1 | Ashby | AI Support Engineer |
| 44 | Cursor | – | 1 | Ashby | AI Deployment Manager - Japan |
| 45 | Danaher | – | 1 | Workday | Data Science Consultant – Pharma R&D |
| 46 | Databricks | – | 1 | Greenhouse | Senior AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) |
| 47 | Datarobot | – | 1 | Workday | AI Engineer - Professional Services |
| 48 | DevRev | – | 1 | Greenhouse | Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI |
| 49 | Dow | – | 1 | Workday | Process R&D Research Scientist（プロセスR&D リサーチサイエンティスト） |
| 50 | Gartner | – | 1 | Workday | Senior Director Analyst, Cloud and AI Infrastructure |
Top 50 of 74 companies by open roles.
Applicant tracking systems these companies use
Workday (138), Ashby (109), Greenhouse (36), Lever (28)
Other roles in Japan
- Salespeople 1,323
- Engineers and manufacturing staff 701
- Operations and administrative staff 510
- Customer success and support staff 387
- Marketers 317
- Finance and accounting staff 259
- Consultants 221
- Software engineers 187
- Data engineers and analysts 182
- Project and program managers 164
- HR and recruiting staff 160
- Healthcare professionals 155
- Logistics and warehouse staff 139
- Legal and compliance staff 128
- Retail and hospitality staff 111
- Product managers 88
- Designers 61
- DevOps and cloud engineers 56
- Security engineers 56
- Tradespeople 40
- QA and test engineers 37
- Teachers and trainers 21
- IT specialists 17
Data scientists and AI engineers in other countries
- United States 9,168
- India 1,887
- United Kingdom 1,221
- Canada 1,078
- Singapore 695
- Germany 628
- France 386
- Spain 347
- Poland 341
- China 305
- South Korea 268
- Israel 245
- Netherlands 225
- Australia 221
- Brazil 210
- Philippines 209
- Taiwan 204
- Ireland 182
- Malaysia 178
- Indonesia 165
- Sweden 163
- Mexico 157
- Switzerland 147
- Hong Kong SAR China 146
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FAQ
- Which companies are hiring data scientists and AI engineers in Japan?
- As of 2026-10-02, the companies with the most open data science & AI roles in Japan in our index are Bjak (75), Rakuten (41) and Dxctechnology (31). 74 companies have at least one.
- How many data science & AI jobs are open in Japan?
- 311 open roles at 74 companies on 2026-10-02, each opening counted once.
- How is this list made?
- Every day TidyTools reads the public job boards of about 18,029 companies on 16 applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and others) and counts each open role once. The role family comes from the job title; the country from the ATS or the location text. Companies that hire through other systems are not included.
- Can I get the full list as data?
- Yes. The Career Site Jobs Actor on Apify and the Career Site Jobs API on RapidAPI return every open job of the companies you name, straight from their career sites, as JSON or CSV.