8 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.
About Mujin
Mujin builds the MujinController platform and turnkey robotic systems that combine 3D vision, motion planning, and real‑time control to automate logistics and manufacturing tasks such as picking, palletizing, and material handling. It sells software and integrated automation cells to warehouse and factory operators. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tokyo, the privately held company operates globally, with subsidiaries in the United States and Europe.