
AI Phone - AI Systems / Agent Architect 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: Agent runtime, context, memory, orchestration and overall AI system architecture.
Responsibilities
- Define the overall AI architecture for the phone.
- Design how AI agents interact with the OS and applications.
- Define agent runtime and orchestration architecture.
- Design context and memory systems that allow AI to understand user activities, preferences and ongoing tasks.
- Define how agents execute multi-step workflows across different applications.
- Design long-running task execution, state management and recovery mechanisms.
- Define model routing between on-device and cloud models.
- Evaluate the feasibility of running different AI capabilities locally versus remotely.
- Work with Android engineers to define the interfaces required for system-level AI execution.
- Establish reliability, observability and evaluation standards.
Requirements
- Strong backend and distributed systems engineering experience.
- Experience building production AI agent systems or complex orchestration systems.
- Strong understanding of LLMs, tool calling, structured outputs and agent execution.
- Experience with stateful workflows and multi-step task execution.
- Experience with context engineering, retrieval and memory systems.
- Strong system design and architecture skills.
- Ability to work across backend, AI and platform engineering.
Nice to have
- Experience building AI assistants or agent platforms.
- Experience with long-running autonomous workflows.
- Experience with model routing and inference optimization.
- Experience with on-device AI or hybrid local/cloud architectures.
- Experience with permission-aware tool execution and agent security.
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.