Career Opportunity for Research Scientist (VLAs) Role in Japan!

■ Research Scientist VLAs 

■ 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 and implement data preprocessing pipelines for multimodal robot datasets

● Train VLA models using supervised learning, RL, fine-tuning, RLHF, and training from scratch

● Develop and evaluate models in both simulation and on physical robots

● Improve training robustness and efficiency through algorithmic innovation

● Analyze model performance and propose enhancements based on empirical results

● Deploy VLA models onto real humanoid and mobile robotic platforms

● Publish research in top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CoRL, CVPR)

■ Experience and Qualifications

● MS degree with 3+ years of industry experience, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

● Have at least one first-author publication in a top-tier conference such as CoRL, ICML, CVPR, NeurIPS, IROS, ICLR, ICCV, or ECCV.

● Experience with open-ended learning, reinforcement learning, and frontier methods for training LLMs/VLMs/VLAs such as RLHF and reward function design

● Experience working with simulators or real-world robots

● Knowledge of the latest advancements in large-scale machine learning research

● Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● PhD or equivalent research experience in robot learning.

● Practical experience implementing advanced control strategies on hardware, including impedance control, adaptive control, force control, or MPC.

● Experience using tactile sensing for dexterous manipulation and contact-rich tasks.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Be part of a research-first environment

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for 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.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Be part of a research-first environment

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

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
 

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Join an Advanced AI Research Team - a MLOps Engineer in Japan!

■ MLOps 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, implement, and maintain large-scale ML pipelines and optimize model performance for training on massive robot datasets

● Design, deploy, and maintain distributed training clusters to reduce model development cycles

● Collaborate closely with VLA researchers to capture evolving ML infrastructure, data pre-processing, training, monitoring, evaluation, and deployment requirements and continuously improve ML pipeline through analysis and experimentation.

● Optimize ML infrastructure and pipeline for cost, performance, and reliability

● Design, develop, and maintain MLOps tools and platforms to ensure VLA researchers can efficiently visualize and analyze the performance

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

● 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer in MLOps engineering, machine learning, or robotics.

● Experience in deploying distributed systems to popular cloud services such as AWS, GCP, Azure.

● Experience in orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Kedro.

High proficiency in PyTorch or JAX.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Experience with training and fine-tuning techniques for RL, VLM, and VLA models, including distillation, supervised fine-tuning, and policy optimization.

● Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines for data processing.

● Experience in hyper-parameter optimization.

● Experience in distributed training frameworks and cluster management for deep neural network training.
● High proficiency in SQL.

■ 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 real‑time control, low‑latency audio/video streaming and operator-facing interfaces.

● Work closely with robot operators to gather feedback from real‑world 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.

■ 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.

● Proficiency in frontend frameworks such as Next.js, React or Vue.

● Proficiency in implementing backend solutions using such technologies as Go and Python FastAP

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Experience developing real-time dashboards, robot control interfaces, or similar applications.

● Experience with web crawling and large-scale data processing is a plus.

● Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure.

● Strong understanding of web/mobile app development and real‑time communication protocols (WebSocket, MQTT, gRPC).

● Experience with ROS/ROS2 and related web tools (e.g., ROSBridge, Foxglove, Webviz).

■ 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 UI/UX Designer in Japan!

■ UI/UX Designer

■ Company Overview

 A leading Japanese e-commerce and internet services company, founded in 1997, operates one of the country’s largest online marketplaces, connecting millions of merchants and consumers. Beyond online retail, it has expanded into diverse sectors including fintech, digital content, telecommunications, and professional sports. Its ecosystem integrates shopping, payments, banking, credit cards, mobile services, and loyalty programs through a shared rewards system, creating a seamless experience across its platforms. Headquartered in Tokyo, the company has also grown globally, offering services in multiple regions and investing in innovation, AI, and cloud technologies to strengthen its digital infrastructure. 

■ Department Overview
● At AI for Business (AI4B), we are dedicated to helping people get things done seamlessly through our cutting-edge AI-driven solutions.
● Our team focuses on integrating Artificial Intelligence to eliminate friction and streamline workflows across industries.
● We operate within a diverse and dynamic environment, collaborating across various disciplines to create impactful technologies that empower effortless productivity worldwide.
● We're looking for a Generative AI UI/UX Designer to define the future of human-AI interaction.
● You'll turn ambiguity into clarity, experimenting with completely new UI/UX paradigms and creating effective interfaces for generative AI experiences across our AI for Business product portfolio.  

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

As a UI/UX Designer, your key responsibilities are: -
● Create and iterate on user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for generative AI features
● Own end-to-end design workflows from concept to implementation, weighing user experience against technical feasibility and business objectives ● Identify new AI opportunities, design concepts, and build prototypes to execute on strategic goals
● Shape product direction through breakthrough generative AI interface innovations
● Facilitate alignment and build unified product design vision across teams  

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Portfolio website required, showcasing your design process and solutions
● High standards for UI/UX design execution. Advanced Figma skills.
● Strong product design sense and problem-solving abilities to tackle new design challenges
● Extensive agentic coding experience (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor). Strong preference for candidates who have shipped products using agentic coding
● Strong storytelling and communication skills using mental models, mockups and other tools-for-thought to effectively communicate ideas to teams and senior stakeholders
● Bias towards shipping fast and iterating based on real user feedback
● Comfortable navigating abstract and unknown territories when exploring new AI ideas

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● 4+ years of experience designing UX and UI for software, with experience working with generative AI, LLMs, or conversational interfaces
● Natural curiosity for discovering simpler ways to tackle hard problems
● Experience with design research and user testing
● Knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design
● Japanese skills 

■ Work Location

Tokyo (Hybrid)
 

■ Salary 

To be decided based on your experience, skill set, and company policies.
Details will be shared during the interview process.

■ Language
● Fluent English communication skills (both written and spoken) are required as the team operates in English.
● Japanese language skills are not required but are considered a great plus.

 Details will be provided during the meeting.