株式会社天地人のfixed-term project engagement｜I18N Engineerの求人

[ ABOUT TENCHIJIN ]
Tenchijin Inc. is a Tokyo-headquartered space-tech company and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) certified venture. Through its land-evaluation and analytics platform, Tenchijin COMPASS, the company fuses earth-observation satellite data, geospatial and environmental layers, IoT and ground-sensor feeds, and clients' operational data with proprietary AI to deliver multimodal analytics for utilities and infrastructure enterprises. Tenchijin's flagship water-infrastructure solution, KnoWaterleak, assesses pipeline deterioration and leak risk from space-derived insights and is used by a growing number of water utilities to prioritize inspection and investment, reduce non-revenue water, and extend asset life.

[ ABOUT THE PROJECT ]
The Global South Project is an 18-month initiative (October 2026 – March 2028) to design, build, and deploy a scalable, secure, AI-ready analytics platform tailored to utilities and infrastructure operators across Global South markets. The project adapts Tenchijin's satellite-data and GeoAI capabilities to regions facing aging or rapidly expanding infrastructure, constrained budgets, and limited field-inspection capacity — delivering risk assessment and decision-support tools that improve infrastructure management workflows. All positions are contract-based and fully remote, operating as one distributed, cross-border team with English as the working language.

[ ROLE SUMMARY ]
You will architect the internationalization foundation that lets one codebase serve many languages, scripts, and locales correctly — and you will evangelize I18N practices so every engineer builds world-ready by default. Your work determines how fast and how cleanly the platform can enter each new market.

[ Reports To ]
Lead Frontend & UX Architect
[ Project Language ]
English (professional working proficiency or higher required)

[ KEY RESPONSIBILITIES ]

• Architect and maintain the internationalization framework across frontend and backend: string externalization, ICU message formatting, pluralization, and locale negotiation.
• Implement locale-aware handling of dates, times, time zones, numbers, units (metric conventions, currency), and collation throughout the stack.
• Ensure Unicode correctness end to end (storage, processing, rendering) and readiness for complex scripts and future RTL support.
• Build tooling for the localization pipeline: string extraction, pseudo-localization builds, screenshot generation for in-context review, and CI checks that block hard-coded strings.
• Audit code and designs for I18N defects; define and enforce I18N standards, linting rules, and review checklists.
• Evangelize I18N best practices: run training sessions, write internal guidelines, and support engineers across teams.
• Partner with the Localization Manager to keep the engineering pipeline and vendor workflow seamlessly connected.
• Support locale-specific configuration for geospatial content (map labels, place names, coordinate/unit display).

[ WHAT WE OFFER ]

• A central role in applying satellite data and AI to real infrastructure challenges, with measurable social and environmental impact in Global South markets.
• Fully remote, cross-border collaboration with senior specialists across cloud, GeoAI, product, and design.
• Competitive contractor compensation commensurate with experience and scope.
• Direct exposure to earth-observation technology, including data ecosystems built with Japan's space agency (JAXA).
  Tenchijin Inc. is an equal-opportunity organization. We evaluate all applicants on qualifications and merit, without regard to nationality, race, religion, gender, age, or disability.
  TENCHIJIN INC. · GLOBAL SOUTH PROJECT

• 4+ years of software engineering with significant dedicated i18n/l10n engineering work on production applications.
• Deep knowledge of Unicode, ICU/CLDR, and i18n frameworks (e.g., react-intl/FormatJS, i18next, gettext ecosystems).
• Full-stack capability: comfortable making i18n changes in both frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend codebases.
• Experience building localization tooling and CI integrations.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

• Experience with map/geospatial localization (multilingual labels, transliteration).
• Experience preparing products for RTL languages or complex scripts.
• Prior developer-education or internal-evangelism experience.
• Experience working in a cross-functional POD / squad delivery model.