6 months ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Address technical challenges in motion planning, control, packing, and system design for industrial robots and peripherals.
- Design, develop, and test algorithms for robotic manipulation, including picking, packing, and material handling.
- Build highly concurrent and performance-critical software systems.
- Implement and optimize real-time communication modules with robot controllers and peripheral devices using C/C++.
- Collaborate with project management and integration teams to support proof-of-concepts and customer deployments.
Requirements
- Academic background in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of academic or industry experience in robotics and software engineering.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and Python.
- Solid understanding of linear algebra, 3D geometry, and their applications in robotics.
- Experience working in Linux environments.
- High motivation to solve real-world robotics problems.
- Business-level English or Japanese skills.
- Preferred: experience with concurrent or hierarchical robotic software stacks such as ROS, OpenRAVE, or custom frameworks.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with multi-joint robot hardware and advanced Linux skills.
- Preferred: mathematical foundations in multibody dynamics, collision checking, graph/search algorithms, or optimization.
Benefits
- Work on production-grade industrial robotics applications deployed globally.
- Collaborate with experienced robotics specialists, mentors, and supportive teammates.
- Develop the core Mujin platform in-house across planning, perception, simulation, and control.
- Location: Tokyo, Japan, with stated work hours of 8:45–17:45 and a 60-minute break.
- Weekends off, annual paid leave, maternity and childcare leave, and flexible public-holiday scheduling.
- Commuting allowance, Japanese social security, monthly team dinner support, free buffet lunch, free vending machines, coffee machine, and employee gym access.
- Japan relocation support, visa sponsorship, flight ticket support, shipping expense coverage, and housing assistance.
