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AI Robot Association

Open robotics research association

Data Engineer

Data EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of professional experience in data engineering or data platform development.
  • A proven record of delivering production-grade distributed data systems.
  • Experience personally designing and operating pipelines that process unstructured data such as video, images, point clouds, or sensor time-series at scale, with 100 TB or more in total or TB-per-day throughput.
  • A working understanding of storage formats such as Parquet, WebDataset, MCAP, or rosbag, or codecs such as H.264, H.265, or AV1 for unstructured data.
  • At least 3 years of experience designing and operating large-scale ETL or ELT pipelines using distributed engines such as Spark, Flink, or Ray.
  • Experience personally building and operating pipelines with orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster.
  • Experience working with research, product, or analytics teams and designing pipelines and platforms around their goals.
  • Experience building tools, interfaces, and documentation that enable non-specialist data users, such as researchers and analysts, to find and use data independently.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement large-scale data pipelines covering the complete lifecycle of high-quality datasets for robotics foundation models, including collection, processing, curation, and publishing.
  • Design, build, and maintain data schemas, storage solutions, and query interfaces so VLA researchers can discover, query, and consume curated datasets efficiently.
  • Collaborate with VLA researchers to capture evolving data requirements and continuously improve data pipelines through analysis and experimentation.
  • Design and scale distributed data-processing pipelines for petabyte-scale multimodal datasets, including RGB, depth, and point clouds, with full lineage and reproducibility.
  • Define data-quality metrics and build feedback loops to continuously monitor and improve data quality.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience analyzing and evaluating robot data, including statistical analysis and visualization of trajectories and manipulation logs, task success and failure assessment, and metrics for dataset diversity and quality.
  • Understanding of sensor characteristics, including cameras, depth, IMU, force, and tactile sensors; time synchronization and calibration; and robot-learning dataset formats such as LeRobot and Open X-Embodiment (RLDS).
  • A proven record of optimizing workloads at 10 TB per day or greater, or at petabyte scale.
  • Experience operating data-processing workloads on Kubernetes, such as EKS or GKE.
  • Experience building pipelines that feed machine-learning training jobs, including data-loader and sharding optimization with WebDataset, Mosaic StreamingDataset, or Lance, and dataset versioning for reproducibility.
  • Experience building dataset search and discovery using full-text and vector search, such as OpenSearch, FAISS, or pgvector.
  • Experience building and operating annotation platforms such as CVAT, Label Studio, or Labelbox; designing human-in-the-loop workflows; and managing annotation quality.
  • Experience with large-scale telemetry or streaming ingestion from devices and fleets, such as Kafka, Kinesis, or MQTT.
  • Experience building lakehouses using Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Hudi with query engines such as Trino or Athena.
  • Business-level English proficiency is highly appreciated; Japanese proficiency is a plus.

About the Company

AI Robot Association

Open robotics research association

AI Robot Association is best understood as an open research association working on foundation models for robotics. Researchers and engineers build datasets, training systems, evaluation methods, and embodied artificial-intelligence software. Its initiative brings together motion data, vision-language-action research, model development, and humanoid-robot experimentation. Roles may span machine learning, robotics, data engineering, simulation, infrastructure, research operations, and partnerships. The entity has a limited public footprint, so the profile stays close to its official research and recruiting materials.

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