Release Engineer

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.

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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.

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This role exists to design better release workflows, tooling, and quality gates, while also participating hands‑on in release-stage QA.

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You will work closely with members of the core software engineering organization, QA, and documentation owners to make releases predictable, efficient, and scalable.

Responsibilities:
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Help improve and evolve existing end‑to‑end release processes and workflows

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Participate hands‑on in release-stage integration and regression QA

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Help define and uphold release quality gates together with developers and QA

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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

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Help improve release notes and release visibility by understanding how users consume releases and implementing improvements to increase adoption and usage awareness

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Drive practical AI usage in release workflows (e.g. release note drafts, change aggregation)

Minimum Requirements:
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5+ years of hands‑on experience in Release Engineering or similar roles(e.g. Release Engineer, Product Enablement, DevEx, release‑focused DevOps)

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Practical experience designing and running real production release workflows

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Strong understanding of system‑level testing and release QA

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Experience working with planning or tracking tools (e.g. Jira or equivalents)

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Comfortable working cross‑functionally and owning ambiguous initiatives

Preferred Requirements:
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Experience with AI tools in software delivery or documentation workflows

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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:
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Own and define the release function rather than inherit a fixed framework

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High impact on developer productivity and product quality

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Hands‑on role with strong influence across engineering, QA, and documentation

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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

• Flexible dress code policy

• Commuting allowance

• Japanese Social Security (Health Insurance, Pension, Labor Insurance)

• Monthly team dinner support

• Free buffet lunch every workday

• Free vending machines (offering drinks and snacks)

• High-end coffee machine

• Exclusive Employee Gym Access

Japan Relocation Support

• Visa sponsorship

• Flight ticket support

• Shipping expenses coverage up to a specified limit

• Assistance for housing