Job Description

Career Opportunity for Senior Research Scientist (Robotics) Role in Japan!

■ Research Scientist

■ Company Overview

A research-driven organization at the intersection of AI and robotics, focused on advancing next-generation intelligent systems through cutting-edge research and real-world applications

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Designing and building scalable data collection systems that operate across hundreds of humanoid and mobile robots.

● Developing semi-autonomous teleoperation systems that ensure low latency, high controllability, and minimal operator workload.

● Creating automated pipelines to deploy trained models and rigorously evaluate them in both simulation and real-world robotic platforms.

● Working closely with the Vision-Language-Action (VLA) team to seamlessly integrate and deploy cutting-edge models onto physical robots.

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Ph.D. in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or M.S. with 3+ years of equivalent industry or research experience.

● Extensive hands-on experience with physical robotic platforms (e.g., mobile robots, manipulators such as UR5, Franka Emika, HSR, or humanoids like Spot).

● Demonstrated ability to control real robots using ROS / ROS2, including full-stack integration and deployment.

● Solid understanding and implementation experience in teleoperation, AR/VR interfaces, and leader–follower architectures.

● Strong programming proficiency in C++ and Python, with ability to contribute production-level code and perform system-level integration.

● Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively in multidisciplinary research and engineering teams.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Publication record in top-tier robotics conferences or journals (RSS, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, TRO, IJRR).

● Publications limited to CVPR, ICCV, or NeurIPS could be considered AI-centric and scored lower for this position.

● Experience implementing advanced control strategies on hardware (impedance control, force/torque control, admittance control, or model predictive control).

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Be part of a research-first environment

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

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