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Sakana AI

Orchestrates multiple LLMs via API

Technical Project Manager

Project ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMinato City, Tokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least five years of enterprise-level system implementation project leadership or delivery experience.
  • Experience covering requirements definition through production migration, including some leadership responsibility for quality, cost, and delivery management; issue, risk, and change management; acceptance and cutover; and operations design.
  • Practical experience with cloud or data-center migration as a cloud architect using at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure, plus experience defining and gaining agreement on non-functional requirements.
  • Ability to understand architecture and discuss design and non-functional requirements with engineers; coding implementation is not required.
  • Business-level Japanese proficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Lead delivery of independent projects, coordinating with the account manager while navigating uncertainty during the discovery phase and taking enterprise implementation through work breakdown structure and quality, cost, and delivery controls; agreement on non-functional requirements; security reviews; release; and operations.
  • Create the work breakdown structure; manage progress, quality, cost, issues, risks, and changes; oversee acceptance and production transition; and hand off operations.
  • Define, review, and gain agreement on non-functional requirements, including availability, performance, service-level agreements and objectives, monitoring, business continuity and disaster recovery, and access and identity management, together with architecture proposals.
  • Plan and drive data integration and migration, including staged design from closed networks and encryption through batch processing and APIs, and roadmaps for data-center and cloud migration using AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Coordinate statements of work and team structures; select contract models; manage estimates, credit reviews, and acceptance criteria; and support customer approval and review processes.
  • Coordinate internal engineers, partners, offshore teams, business units, information systems, legal, and audit stakeholders to advance decisions.
  • Lead stabilization and recovery when unexpected changes or issues arise by assessing the situation, setting priorities, delivering short-term stabilization, and driving longer-term improvements.
  • Work with account managers to turn customer-facing system delivery into implementation plans and ensure value is delivered.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience at a systems integrator or a financial-sector IT subsidiary.
  • Experience as the lead for cloud reviews in banking, insurance, payments, or other financial services, with knowledge of APIs, networks, or zero-trust systems.
  • Practical experience with reviews, approval processes, and contracts for financial-institution projects, including service-level agreements, statements of work, and fixed-price or quasi-mandate contracts.
  • Experience planning and executing phased cloud adoption or modernization from legacy to modern systems.
  • Knowledge of multi-vendor governance, offshore delivery, site reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure as code, operations design, or service-level objective design.
  • Delivery experience at a business-to-business startup.
  • Systems development experience.
  • Experience with or ability to adapt to agile development.
  • Knowledge related to artificial intelligence or large language models; this knowledge may be developed after joining.

About the Company

Sakana AI

Orchestrates multiple LLMs via API

Sakana AI builds AI foundation models and a multi-agent orchestration platform. Its flagship product, Sakana Fugu, runs as a single language-model interface that plans, delegates to, and combines outputs from a swappable pool of LLMs—including closed frontier models, open models, and its own instances—behind an OpenAI-compatible API. Fugu comes in two flavors: a low-latency everyday model and Fugu Ultra for tackling tough, multi-step tasks in software engineering, scientific research, and cybersecurity. The company differentiates itself by treating orchestration as a core capability to hedge against vendor lock-in and export-control shifts, using techniques like evolutionary model merging and agentic research systems. Sakana aims to provide reliable, flexible AI tooling for developers and enterprises through its API and tool integrations, while continuing to publish research on learned model orchestration.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Series B
Total funding
$365M
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2023

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