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Full-time
bachelor degree
Posted 2d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
You will design and implement large-scale data pipelines to manage the full lifecycle of high-quality datasets for robotics foundation models. Additionally, you will build and maintain storage solutions and query interfaces to enable researchers to efficiently access and utilize multimodal data.
Requirements
Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least 5 years of professional experience in data engineering or platform development. Proficiency in designing distributed data systems and handling large-scale unstructured data is essential for this role.
Full job description
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About AIRoA
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:
Work on fundamental challenges in robotics and AI: multimodal learning, tactile-rich manipulation, sim-to-real transfer, and large-scale benchmarking.
Access state-of-the-art infrastructure: hundreds of humanoid robots, GPU clusters, high-fidelity simulators, and a global-scale evaluation pipeline.
Collaborate with leading experts across academia and industry, and publish results that will shape the next decade of robotics.
Contribute to an initiative that will redefine the future of embodied AI—with all results made open to the world.
Key Responsibilities
You will play a critical role in building the data backbone powering next-generation robotics foundation models:
Design and implement large-scale data pipelines that cover the full lifecycle of high-quality datasets for robotics foundation models—collection, processing, curation, and publishing.
Design, build, and maintain data schemas, storage solutions, and query interfaces to enable VLA researchers to efficiently discover, query, and consume curated datasets.
Collaborate closely with VLA researchers to capture evolving data requirements and continuously improve data pipelines through analysis and experimentation.
Design and scale distributed data-processing pipelines capable of handling petabyte-scale multimodal datasets (e.g., RGB/Depth, point clouds) with full lineage and reproducibility.
Define data-quality metrics and build feedback loops to continuously monitor and improve data quality.
AIRoAについて
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。
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
5+ years professional experience in data engineering / data platform development.
Proven record of delivering production-grade, distributed data systems.
【2. Large-Scale Multimodal / Unstructured Data Processing】
Experience personally designing and operating pipelines that process unstructured data such as video, images, point clouds, or sensor time-series at scale (100TB+ in total, or TB+/day throughput).
Working understanding of storage formats (Parquet, WebDataset, MCAP/rosbag, etc.) or codecs (H.264, H.265, AV1, etc.) for such data.
Relevant domains include autonomous driving, robotics, video/streaming, industrial IoT, and video analytics. Equivalent experience from other domains is also welcome.
【3. ETL / Distributed Data Processing】
3+ years designing and operating large-scale ETL / ELT pipelines using a distributed engine such as Spark, Flink, or Ray.
Experience personally building and operating pipelines with orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster.
【4. Collaboration & Data Democratization】
Worked with research, product, or analytics teams and designed pipelines and platforms around their goals.
Built tools, interfaces, and documentation that let users who are not data-engineering specialists (such as researchers and analysts) find and use data on their own.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience analyzing and evaluating robot data: statistics and visualization of trajectories and manipulation logs, task success/failure assessment, and metrics for dataset diversity and quality.
Understanding of sensor characteristics (camera, depth, IMU, force/tactile), time synchronization, and calibration; knowledge of robot learning dataset formats such as LeRobot and Open X-Embodiment (RLDS).
Proven optimization of workloads at 10TB+/day or petabyte scale.
Experience operating data-processing workloads on Kubernetes (e.g., EKS, GKE).
Experience building pipelines that feed ML training jobs, including dataloader/sharding optimization (WebDataset, Mosaic StreamingDataset, Lance, etc.) and dataset versioning for reproducibility.
Experience building dataset search and discovery, using full-text search and vector search (e.g., OpenSearch, FAISS, pgvector).
Experience building and operating annotation platforms (e.g., CVAT, Label Studio, Labelbox), designing human-in-the-loop workflows, and managing annotation quality.
Experience with large-scale telemetry or streaming ingestion from devices and fleets (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, MQTT).
Experience building lakehouses (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi) with query engines such as Trino or Athena.
Others (linguistic qualification, etc.)
【Highly appreciated】 English proficiency at business level; Japanese proficiency a plus.
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.
●Work location
Tokyo Ryutsu Center A Bldg. AW4-5/4-6, 6-1-1 Heiwajima, Ota-ku, Tokyo 143-0006, Japan
Related keywords
Data EngineeringRoboticsVision-Language-Action ModelsDistributed SystemsETLELTSparkFlinkRayKubernetesMultimodal DataPoint CloudsAirflowDagsterData PipelineData Schema
AIRoA connects AI and robotics to build open platforms and foundation models for real-world intelligence.
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Company size
2-10 employees
Founded
2024
LinkedIn followers
2,361
AIRoA is a global and open initiative that integrates AI and robotics to develop foundation models and data ecosystems that enable robots to understand and interact with the real world.
Our mission is to develop and promote open platforms and datasets for robotic foundation models, creating a shared infrastructure that empowers the next generation of intelligent and autonomous systems.
We unite leading companies across IT, AI, and manufacturing industries with top universities and research institutions to share knowledge, data, and technology—fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and driving innovation.
As AIRoA continues to expand its membership and global partnerships, we are accelerating progress and collectively shaping the future of AI-driven robotics.
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