Career Opportunity for a Firmware / Embedded Software Engineer (Robotics) in Japan!

■ Firmware / Embedded Software Engineer (Robotics)

■ 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 

● Design, implement, and verify firmware and embedded software for humanoids, dual-arm robots, robotic hands, and teleoperation systems

● Control devices such as motors, sensors, actuators, and communication modules

● Develop robotics control platforms using MCUs, SoCs, Linux-based embedded systems, RTOS, and related technologies

● Design and implement inter-device communication using CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet, and other protocols

● Develop logging and diagnostic functions for sensor values, joint angles, torque, current, temperature, error states, and other system data

● Design interfaces between low-level control layers and higher-level robotics software platforms such as ROS / ROS 2

● Ensure the stability and reproducibility required for teleoperation, leader–follower systems, and data collection pipelines

● Conduct real-robot testing, failure analysis, root-cause investigation, and design improvements to prevent recurrence

● Integrate systems in collaboration with Mechanical, Electrical, AI, Robotics, and Cloud teams

● Improve the reliability, operability, and scalability of robotic systems used in research projects

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Practical experience in embedded software or firmware development using C / C++

● Development experience using MCUs, SoCs, Linux-based embedded systems, or RTOS

● Experience developing software that controls real hardware such as sensors, actuators, and motors

● Experience with implementation or real-hardware debugging using communication interfaces

● Experience debugging real hardware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, and similar tools

● Experience analyzing and improving issues in systems involving electrical, mechanical, and software components

● Business-level Japanese proficiency (equivalent to JLPT N2 or above)

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Experience developing hardware products with moving mechanisms, such as robots, factory automation equipment, mobility products, home appliances, medical devices, industrial equipment, drones, and precision devices

● Experience with brushless DC motors, servo motors, stepper motors, and actuator control

● Experience developing robotic arms, robotic hands, humanoids, dual-arm robots, or mobile robots

● Experience developing robotic systems using ROS / ROS 2, micro-ROS, DDS, and related technologies

● Experience with motion control using EtherCAT, CANopen, CiA 402, and related protocols

● Knowledge of real-time control, control cycle design, latency reduction, and jitter reduction

● Experience designing safety functions, fail-safe mechanisms, anomaly detection, and emergency stop systems

● Experience developing RTOS, Linux drivers, Linux kernel modules, and related software

● Experience with log analysis, test automation, and test tool development using Python or similar languages

● Ability to read technical documentation in English and communicate technically with overseas vendors in English

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Work at the cutting edge of AI and robotics, shaping real-world intelligent systems—not just theory

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Robotics Simulation Engineer in Japan!

■ Robotics Simulation Engineer

■ 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 

● Simulation infrastructure: Design and implement simulation environments, scenarios, evaluation tools, and log replay functions for humanoids, mobile robots, and service robots.

● Automated testing and CI: Establish simulation-based software testing, automated regression testing, and CI/CD integration to detect performance degradation and safety issues caused by software changes at an early stage.

● Evaluation scenarios: Build a scenario library and benchmark suite that reproduce real-world tasks, failure cases, sensor abnormalities, contact, crowded environments, robot state transitions, and related situations.

● Synthetic data and sensor simulation: Prepare synthetic data, sensor simulation, domain randomization, and log-derived scenarios for use in perception, navigation, and VLA evaluation.

● Sim-to-real analysis: Measure differences between physical robot logs and simulation results, and improve models, sensors, control systems, environment representations, and evaluation metrics.

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Professional experience working with robotic arms and robotic hands

● Experience developing and operating robotics, factory automation (FA), or physics simulation environments

● Hands-on professional experience using simulators such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim and MuJoCo

● Experience using Python for evaluation pipelines, data processing, simulation tools, log analysis, visualization, and test automation

● Experience designing systems continuously used by development teams, such as test cases, evaluation metrics, log replay, benchmarks, CI pipelines, and automated reporting

● Ability to understand at least one of the following areas and translate it into simulation

● requirements: sensors, control systems, state transitions, navigation, manipulation, or physical hardware constraints

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Ability to organize requirements across multiple teams such as Autonomy, VLA, Navigation, Integration, and Hardware, and implement simulation environments as a shared platform.

● Experience with cloud-based simulation infrastructure, GPU-accelerated simulation, containerization, distributed execution, and job management.

● Experience with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, ML policy training, VLA evaluation, or synthetic data pipelines.

● Experience with ROS/ROS2, bag/log replay, Nav2, MoveIt, robot descriptions, sensor plugins, or simulation-to-real integration.

● Experience with Gaussian splatting, NeRF, world models, learned sensor models, diffusion- based methods, or neural rendering.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Work at the cutting edge of AI and robotics, shaping real-world intelligent systems—not just theory

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Full-Stack Engineer in Japan!

■ Full-Stack Engineer

■ 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 

● Design, develop and implement teleoperation systems, including realtime control, lowlatency audio/video streaming and operator-facing interfaces.

● Work closely with robot operators to gather feedback from realworld use and continuously improve the user experience.

● Provide data quality feedback through the teleoperation UI to encourage Higher quality data collection.

● Develop and maintain applications that support data collection, such as internal tools and dashboards.

● Build intuitive web based interfaces for managing and monitoring data pipelines.

● Collaborate with VLA teams and Data/ML platform teams to ensure seamless data ingestion and workflow management.

● Design and implement APIs to facilitate data interactions between internal services and external data sources.

● Develop configuration management systems to store and update metadata, including robot configurations and task descriptions.

● Ensure secure communication through robust authentication and Access control mechanisms.

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

● 4+ years of professional experience as a full‑stack engineer, with proficiency in both backend and frontend development.

● Backend: Proficiency in implementing solutions using technologies such as Go and Python FastAPI.

● Frontend: Proficiency in modern frameworks such as Next.js, React.

● Cloud: Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.

● Leadership: Experience leading and driving technical decisions with initiative as a Tech Lead, Team Lead, or equivalent.

● Demonstrated experience in at least one of the following areas:

● A strong understanding of event-driven or real‑time communication protocols (e.g., WebRTC, WebSocket, MQTT, gRPC.

● Experience with large-scale data processing.

● Hands-on experience with ROS/ROS2 and related web tools (e.g., ROSBridge, Foxglove, Webviz).

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Experience with development micro services.

● Experience with development of realtime dashboards.

● Familiarity with robot telemetry, sensor data visualization, and live camera feeds.

● Experience optimizing system performance using performance analysis tools.

● DevOps, SRE & Quality Assurance.

● Familiarity with best practices, including observability, CI/CD, and incident response.

● Experience with Infrastructure as Code IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

● Proficiency in implementing and maintaining automated testing across all levels (unit, integration, E2E).

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Work at the cutting edge of AI and robotics, shaping real-world intelligent systems—not just theory

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

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Hiring Function Owner in Japan

■ Function Owner

■ Company Overview

A global leader in technology and industry, transforming mobility through innovation. 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities

● Client Japan is hiring Function Owners to lead the design and development of vehicle functions for “anSWer,” our autonomous driving product supporting next-generation mobility. You will oversee system design using data from multiple sensors (camera, radar, ultrasonic), and collaborate with software and validation teams to ensure product quality and functional completeness across the V-model development cycle. This is a high-impact role involving technical leadership and decision-making that directly influences product success.

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Lead the design and development of functions for the “anSWer” autonomous driving system

● Manage system functionality integrating camera, radar, and ultrasonic technologies

● Define and update system requirements with full traceability to stakeholder needs

● Collaborate with system architects, software engineers, and validation/testing teams

● Act as technical lead in customer meetings and real vehicle testing

● Define KPIs and performance indicators for each function and design measurement strategies

● Review and improve test strategies, environments, and test cases

● Ensure compliance with development processes, quality standards, and regulatory requirements

● Lead and support technical reviews with suppliers and cross-functional departments

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Experience in system engineering (ASPICE)

● Basic knowledge of embedded software and SoC (System-on-Chip)

● Familiarity with ISO 26262 (functional safety)

● Proven experience writing system requirements

● English: Business level or higher

● Japanese: Conversational level or higher (Business level required for OEM-facing role)

■ Work Location

● Tokyo

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Hiring Test and Validation Team Leader in Japan

■ Test and Validation Team Leader

■ Company Overview

A global leader in technology and industry, transforming mobility through innovation. 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities

● We are seeking a System Validation Leader for radar and ultrasonic sensor technologies used in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving (AD) functions. This role leads the full validation lifecycle—from strategy planning through execution, evaluation, and issue resolution—ensuring high-quality system delivery in collaboration with development, integration, and quality teams.

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering,  Mechatronics, or related field

● Minimum 5 years of system validation experience in the automotive industry

● Business-level proficiency in Japanese and English

● Strong understanding of radar and ultrasonic sensor principles, limitations, and performance metrics

● Applied knowledge of signal processing, object detection, tracking, and classification

● Experience translating sensor outputs into system-level ADAS/AD functions

● Familiarity with in-vehicle communication protocols including LIN, CAN, CAN FD, ● Ethernet, SPI, Daisy Chain, and Point-to-Point 

● Develop and manage the system validation roadmap

● Execute system-level validation and debugging

● Lead validation engineers as the technical owner

● Collaborate with development, integration, and quality teams

● Manage customer reporting, risk mitigation, and issue resolution

● Track progress across milestones, KPIs, and deliverables

● Ensure quality assurance throughout the validation lifecycle

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Strong communication skills: able to summarize conversations, catch up on unclear points, relay info to team
● Experience with ADAS or autonomous driving validation frameworks

● Familiarity with V-model and Agile development methodologies

● Test automation using Python, CAPL, or Robot Framework

● Hands-on experience with validation tools such as CANoe, CANape, dSPACE, ETAS

● Knowledge of ISO 26262 and ASPICE standards

● Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab

● Prior collaboration with global OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers

■ Work Location

● Tokyo

Details will be provided during the meeting.

ADAS Specialist in Japan 

■ ADAS Specialist

■ Company Overview 

 Technological Leading Mobility Tech Company. 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Plan and conduct driving tests for autonomous driving and ADAS-equipped vehicles in various environments across Japan and overseas.

● Monitor vehicle behavior during test runs, identify anomalies, and document performance metrics.

● Perform real-time and post-test analysis to visualize results and assess system functionality.

● Debug software components based on observed issues and collaborate with development teams to implement fixes.

● Conduct root cause analysis to determine the underlying factors contributing to system failures or inconsistencies. 

■ Experience and Qualifications 

● At least three years of experience in the development, testing, or validation of autonomous driving or ADAS technologies.

● Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following areas:

● Real-world vehicle evaluation of ADAS systems, including hands-on driving and performance analysis.

● Data analysis and software debugging in the context of autonomous vehicle systems.

● Construction and operation of Hardware-in-the-Loop or Driver-in-the-Loop Simulation environments.

● Execution of ADAS testing using simulation platforms and real vehicles.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications 

● Ability to evaluate system performance under challenging conditions and edge cases.

● Experience in identifying issues through detailed analysis and contributing to system improvements for mass production.

● Strong driving skills and experience in conducting subjective evaluations based on sensory feedback.

■ Work Location 

● Tokyo