Release Engineer

  • Mujininc
  • Tokyo, Japan (MJHQ)
  • 1mo ago
  • Full-time
  • On-site

Mujin is a global leader in industrial automation, redefining supply chain efficiency through MujinOS—our intelligent operating system for robotics. At our core is Machine Intelligence (MujinMI), a unique approach that leverages real-time digital twins and advanced perception, planning, and control algorithms to achieve fully autonomous operations.

Our flagship product, MujinController, empowers users with a highly configurable, no-code interface. By integrating cutting-edge motion planning and computer vision, it enables seamless automation for complex applications such as palletizing, picking, and truck unloading.

Headquartered in Japan with a growing presence in the US, China, and Europe, we invite you to join a dynamic environment where you can shape the future of automation.


About the Role

  • Mujin is hiring a Release Engineer for the Release team. The team is currently small, and you will play a key role in helping improvement in our release process.
  • Regular releases are a vital part of evolving MujinOS into a mature product, ensuring completeness and consistent quality. This role exists to improve release workflows, tooling, and quality gates, while also participating hands‑on in release‑stage QA.
  • This role exists to design better release workflows, tooling, and quality gates, while also participating hands‑on in release-stage QA.
  • You will work closely with members of the core software engineering organization, QA, and documentation owners to make releases predictable, efficient, and scalable.

Responsibilities

  • Help improve and evolve existing end‑to‑end release processes and workflows
  • Participate hands‑on in release-stage integration and regression QA
  • Help define and uphold release quality gates together with developers and QA
  • Work with stakeholders to better understand our end users' needs for issue tracking and management and help improve and maintain the issue tracking tools/systems and workflows
  • Help improve release notes and release visibility by understanding how users consume releases and implementing improvements to increase adoption and usage awareness
  • Drive practical AI usage in release workflows (e.g. release note drafts, change aggregation)
  • Minimum Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands‑on experience in Release Engineering or similar roles
    (e.g. Release Engineer, Product Enablement, DevEx, release‑focused DevOps)
  • Practical experience designing and running real production release workflows
  • Strong understanding of system‑level testing and release QA
  • Experience working with planning or tracking tools (e.g. Jira or equivalents)
  • Comfortable working cross‑functionally and owning ambiguous initiatives
  • Preferred Requirements

  • Experience with AI tools in software delivery or documentation workflows
  • Background in environments with remote or limited deployment control
  • Interview Process:

    • Resume Screening
    • Take-home coding test
    • HR interview
    • Technical interview
    • Culture/Team fit interview

    Attractives

  • Own and define the release function rather than inherit a fixed framework
  • High impact on developer productivity and product quality
  • Hands‑on role with strong influence across engineering, QA, and documentation
  • Opportunity to bring AI into real, production release workflows
  • Location

    3-8-5 Tatsumi, Koto-Ku, Tokyo 135-0053, Japan

    Work Hours

    8:45 - 17:45 (with a 60-minute break)

    Salary

    • Based on experience and skills
    • Salary revision twice a year
    • Additional bonuses are available based on performance

    Holidays

    • Every Saturday and Sunday
    • Annual paid leaves
    • Maternity leave and Childcare leave
    • Flex Holiday (take public holidays on days of your choice)
    • Other holidays as defined by the company

    Company Benefits

    Japan Relocation Support

    • Visa sponsorship
    • Flight ticket support
    • Shipping expenses coverage up to a specified limit
    • Assistance for housing