AI Robot Association

Lead AIRoA’s HR function and a small team while shaping HR systems, regulations, labor-risk controls, Money Forward operations, and executive-level people decisions.

Manage PR activities and communication strategies to enhance global visibility and credibility for the foundation model.

Build the Corporate IT function, setting strategy, budgets and governance while leading engineers, vendors, security planning, IT roadmaps and executive alignment.

As the HR Specialist, you will manage HR and labor operations, including onboarding, attendance, and compliance inquiries.

Handles daily governance inquiries, supports Board decision processes, and helps develop internal controls and compliance mechanisms across the organization.

Build and operate the full-stack platform for teleoperating humanoid robots in homes, using Go, Next.js/React, ROS telemetry, and AWS infrastructure.

Lead robot operation and training-data collection using controllers, VR and haptic devices; evaluate and annotate data, improve interfaces, and manage part-time staff.

Lead global hiring efforts, managing full-cycle recruitment activities from strategy to execution.

Design, implement, and verify firmware and embedded software for humanoids and robotic systems, ensuring stability and reliability in real-world applications.

Lead governance structure construction and operations, addressing immediate challenges and long-term organizational issues.

Draft and review contracts, address AI and data-use legal issues, and support AIRoA’s governance and compliance work alongside business teams.

Build robotics simulation environments, evaluation pipelines, and automated regression tests using Python, Isaac Sim, and MuJoCo.

The Robotics Reliability Engineer role focuses on reliability engineering for robotics systems. The posting identifies the work location as Heiwajima, Japan.

Develop semi-/full-humanoid robots and teleoperation systems, including robotic hands and verification environments.

Design and improve teleoperation systems for humanoid, mobile manipulator, and service robots, analyzing logs and resolving robot issues to support data collection and evaluation.

Lead the operational foundation of the organization, supporting the Board of Directors, managing budgets, and overseeing back-office operations.

You will help continuously elevate our organizational performance through strategy planning, execution of initiatives, and partnering with teams.

This position connects AIRoA’s Physical AI initiatives with government and public institutions, promoting collaboration to advance the ecosystem.

Monitor AI robotics standards in Japan and abroad, draft and review JIS/IEC/ISO proposals, coordinate industry and government stakeholders, and advance related policy proposals. The role also connects standards activity with member companies’ strategies.

Lead the hiring of engineers for a robot data ecosystem and foundation models, managing the entire recruitment process.

Develop and execute mid- to long-term strategies for the association, including negotiations and coordination with various stakeholders.

As the Public Relations (Corporate) for the AI Robot Association, you will manage internal and external communications, including press releases and media relations.

Support office communication and branding to enhance a comfortable and attractive office environment.

Plans adoption strategies for robot foundation models, develops use cases and PoCs, and leads cross-functional projects, partnerships, budgets, risks and executive briefings.

Leads cross-functional initiatives in Corporate Strategy, covering data-site operations, vendor coordination, conference workshops, process improvement and project launches.

Drive recruitment of business professionals supporting initiatives in strategy, communications, HR, and IT.

Leads cross-functional projects supporting AI-robot data operations, coordinating domestic and overseas sites, contractors and partners while improving processes and launching new initiatives.

Design and develop service robot systems for various environments, conduct proof-of-concept studies, and ensure quality assurance.

Design electrical and wiring systems for humanoid robots, dual-arm robots, robotic hands.

Develop real-time motor-control firmware for humanoid and dual-arm robots, including FOC, control loops, actuator safety, and hardware interfaces.

Design and develop service robot systems for various environments, including planning and executing proof-of-concept studies.

Design and implement data preprocessing pipelines for multimodal robot datasets and train VLA models using various learning methods.

Design and implement data preprocessing pipelines for multimodal robot datasets and train VLA models using various learning methods.

Develop Vision-Language models and fine-tune existing models for robotics applications.

Design and implement data preprocessing pipelines for multimodal robot datasets and train VLA models using various learning methods.

Design and build scalable data collection systems for humanoid and mobile robots. Develop teleoperation systems and create automated pipelines for model deployment.

As a Robotics Engineer Intern, you will contribute to the design and implementation of scalable data collection systems across fleets of humanoid and mobile robots.

Design and build scalable data collection systems for humanoid and mobile robots. Develop teleoperation systems and create automated pipelines for model deployment.

Design and build scalable data collection systems for humanoid and mobile robots, develop teleoperation systems, and create automated pipelines for model deployment.

Design and build scalable data collection systems for humanoid and mobile robots. Develop teleoperation systems and create automated pipelines for model deployment.

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

Design and implement data preprocessing pipelines for multimodal robot datasets and train VLA models using various learning methods.