Data Engineer
AI Robot Association
Data Engineer
AI Robot Association
Open robotics research association
AI Robot Association · Heiwajima, Japan · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-10
Workplace: on_site
Department: Development Division
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The AI Robot Association (AIRoA) is launching a groundbreaking initiative: collecting one million hours of humanoid robot operation data with hundreds of robots, and leveraging it to train the world’s most powerful Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.
What makes AIRoA unique is not only the unprecedented scale of real-world data and humanoid platforms, but also our commitment to making everything open and accessible. We are building a shared “robot data ecosystem” where datasets, trained models, and benchmarks are available to everyone. Researchers around the world will be able to evaluate their models on standardized humanoid robots through our open evaluation platform.
For researchers, this means an opportunity to:
Key Responsibilities
You will play a critical role in building the data backbone powering next-generation robotics foundation models:
AI Robot Association(AIRoA)は、数百台のヒューマノイドロボットを用いて100万時間分のロボット操作データを収集し、それを活用して世界最高水準のVision-Language-Action(VLA)モデルを学習させるという、画期的な取り組みを進めています。
AIRoAの特徴は、実世界データとヒューマノイドプラットフォームの規模がこれまでにないものであるだけでなく、すべてをオープンかつ誰もが利用できる形にすることを目指している点にあります。私たちは、データセット、学習済みモデル、ベンチマークを誰もが利用できる共通の「ロボットデータ・エコシステム」を構築しています。また、世界中の研究者が、オープンな評価プラットフォームを通じて、標準化されたヒューマノイドロボット上で自身のモデルを評価できる環境を提供します。
研究者にとって、これは以下のような機会を意味します。
主な業務内容
次世代のロボティクス基盤モデルを支えるデータ基盤の構築において、重要な役割を担っていただきます。
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【1. Academic & Professional】
【2. Large-Scale Multimodal / Unstructured Data Processing】
【3. ETL / Distributed Data Processing】
【4. Collaboration & Data Democratization】
【Highly appreciated】 English proficiency at business level; Japanese proficiency a plus.
【1. 学歴・職務経験】
【2. 大規模マルチモーダル/非構造データ処理】
【3. ETL/分散データ処理】
【4. コラボレーション&データの民主化】
【特に歓迎】ビジネスレベルの英語力。日本語力があれば尚可。
There are currently no comparable projects in the world that collect data and develop foundation models on such a large scale. As mentioned above, this is one of Japan’s leading national projects, supported by a substantial investment of 20.5 billion yen from NEDO.
This position will play a crucial role in determining the success of the project. You will have broad discretion and responsibility, and we are confident that, if successful, you will gain both a great sense of achievement and the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to society.
Furthermore, we strongly encourage engineers to actively build their careers through this project—for example, by publishing research papers and engaging in academic activities.
Tokyo Ryutsu Center A Bldg. AW4-5/4-6, 6-1-1 Heiwajima, Ota-ku, Tokyo 143-0006, Japan
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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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