Sakana AI Hiring Member of Technical Staff for LLM Development
Confirmed
- Sakana AI officially announced (from 08-21) an opening for Member of Technical Staff (LLM Development), based in Tokyo, requiring business-level Japanese and English, plus a master's degree or equivalent experience
- The role covers the full LLM development pipeline: pretraining, mid-training, post-training and evaluation, plus architecture improvements, data construction and experiment design
- The position aims to build foundational LLMs—including Sakana Namazu—supporting the company's products and RSI (Recursive Self-Improvement) research
- hardmaru reshared the posting on 08-22
Why it matters
- The hire signals Sakana AI building an in-house foundation-model team as infrastructure for its products and RSI research
2026-08-21 ~ 2026-08-23 · 5 related posts
Primary sources
- Sakana AI is hiring LLM engineers across pre-training to evaluation in Tokyo — SakanaAILabs ·
- Sakana AI hires Member of Technical Staff for LLM Development — SakanaAILabs ·
- [source] Sakana AI is hiring LLM engineers across pre-training to evaluation in Tokyo — SakanaAILabs · 2026-08-21
- Sakana AI Hires for Core LLM Development Roles — hardmaru · 2026-08-22
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