AI Phone - Agentic Engineer at Bjak (Taipei, Taiwan)
Bjak · Taipei, Taiwan·
Role details
Bjak at a glance
Southeast Asia's largest online insurance comparison platform, letting users compare, buy and renew insurance and roadtax from 16 insurers in one place.
Bjak is a BNM-licensed online marketplace where Malaysians compare quotes from 16 insurers and takaful operators, then buy and renew car, motorcycle, travel, life, medical and home insurance online. It bundles roadtax renewal, roadside assistance, car repair booking and AI tools around the core comparison engine.
Job description
About
We are reimagining the phone. AI phones need to be proactive, intuitive, intelligent and low cost. This is a mission critical for rest of the world to adopt intelligence. There are over 5 billion people using everyday applications such as email, messaging, notes, tasks, and calendars, yet most are not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications and devices that bring intelligence into daily conversations, coordination and workflows, with minimal prompting. Focus: Building agent capabilities, context, memory and orchestration.
Responsibilities
- Implement agent workflows and orchestration.
- Build integrations with different tools and applications.
- Develop context retrieval and memory mechanisms.
- Implement multi-step task execution.
- Support long-running workflows and state management.
- Improve agent reliability and execution accuracy.
- Integrate local and cloud model providers.
- Build evaluation and regression tests for agent workflows.
Requirements
- Strong backend or AI application engineering experience.
- Python, Go or TypeScript.
- Experience with LLM APIs and tool calling.
- Experience building AI applications or agent workflows.
- Strong API and distributed systems knowledge.
- Good understanding of state management and asynchronous execution.
Nice to have
- Production agent infrastructure.
- RAG, memory and context engineering.
- Model routing and inference optimization.
- Experience with mobile or operating-system integrations.
Why work at Bjak
- Culture: “Results first” – outcomes over effort; direct feedback; flat organization with minimal bureaucracy; high ownership and speed.
- Work Environment: Remote‑friendly with a “distributed team of experts” and offices in Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, and the UK. Recruiting globally.
- Engineering Focus: Lean, autonomous teams that prioritise product excellence and swift delivery.
- Career Growth: Rapidly scaling company with 356 open roles (including Lead, Founder’s Office, iOS Engineer, DevOps, ML Engineer) – opportunities for impact and advancement.
- Note on Employer Rating: Current Glassdoor-style rating is 2.3/5 (198 reviews) – potential concerns around work‑life balance and compensation. Candidates should verify recent employee sentiment during interviews.