【R&D-011】Senior Research Scientist (VLAs)

AIRoA is launching a groundbreaking initiative to collect one million hours of humanoid robot operation data and train the world’s most powerful Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. The role involves designing and implementing data preprocessing pipelines, training VLA models, and deploying them onto real humanoid and mobile robotic platforms.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• No comparable projects in the world
• Supported by a substantial investment of 20.5 billion yen from NEDO
• Broad discretion and responsibility
• Opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to society
• Chance to publish research papers and engage in academic activities