【R&D-002】Research Scientist (Robotics)

AIRoA is launching a groundbreaking initiative to collect one million hours of humanoid robot operation data and leverage it to train the world's most powerful Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. The position is responsible for designing and building scalable data collection systems, developing semi-autonomous teleoperation systems, and creating automated pipelines to deploy trained models and evaluate them in simulation and real-world robotic platforms.

Requirements

• 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
• Demonstrated ability to control real robots using ROS / ROS2
• Solid understanding and implementation experience in teleoperation, AR/VR interfaces, and leader–follower architectures
• Strong programming proficiency in C++ and Python
• Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively in multidisciplinary research and engineering teams

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on a groundbreaking initiative with a substantial investment of 20.5 billion yen from NEDO
• Broad discretion and responsibility
• Opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to society
• Encouragement to actively build careers through publishing research papers and engaging in academic activities