<p>I am part Japanese so I actually want to work there for about 2-3 years for some foreign experience. I heard that the Japanese companies don't pay well (about 30k per year at the most) so I was wondering if there are any U.S companies out there. I also have not decided my major yet completely. I am going for Chemical/Aerospace</p>
<p>Hmm. Big companies with a major engineering component to their business - like, say, Boeing - often have some kind of office in Tokyo. However, I’m guessing that the people working in it are primarily in the customer relations / sales or contracting end of the business, rather than engineers.</p>
<p>If you want to poke around a little bit, try going on to the “Careers” section of a few companies’ websites, and see what job listings there are in various places.</p>
<p>The roadblock that you may run into are local laws that regulate/restrict the ability of foreign nationals to work for extended periods. I am sure there are exceptions that companies can take advantage of. Again, check the career web sites of a few U.S. corporations (and other multinational companies) that have facilities in Japan.</p>
<p>I have known some Americans who have worked for a foreign office of a US company, but they were all experienced engineers/managers, not new grads. The typical situation would be someone who had worked for the company in the US for many years, and then was temporarily posted to another country to help start up a new group. </p>
<p>To be hired right out of college for a foreign location of a US company seems unlikely to me. Also, when US companies have engineering locations in other countries, it is frequently because they want to be able to pay the engineers less than they pay in the US. So those positions would pay at the local rate, not at a US rate. The exception would be the experienced ex-pat I describe above, but I’ve only seen that happen for people with very specific skills and company-specific knowledge. </p>