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From robotics to software to artificial intelligence, TELEXISTENCE Inc. is looking for the top talent on the planet.
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TELEXISTENCE CULTURE and PRINCIPLES
TX envisions to grasp every object with our hands from everywhere. We want to create a world where every single person on every planet benefits from the robotic revolution.
Our core principles are the guideline to our employees to help us get there.
HOW TO APPLY
Please fill in the form below or email your resume and/or portfolio to careers@tx-inc.com.
Full-Time Positions
Software Engineer – Streaming Video (Tokyo, Japan)
The Software Engineer – Streaming Video position is ideal for a candidate who has advanced skills in video streaming, network programming, computer vision software development for robot teleoperation systems. The main responsibility will be to develop the vision streaming pipeline, develop 1. Gstreamer based video streaming system on NVIDIA Jetson, 2. UDP packet streaming C++ SDK over an internet connection, 3. Integration with Unity game-engine with C#.
Specification:
Responsibilities
- Develop a real-time video streaming system for the robot on the NVIDIA Jetson platform using Gstreamer on C++. Evaluate/improve the performance/quality of the system.
- Develop real-time network communication c++ code library for UDP streaming over the internet.
- Develop the robot teleoperation system that receives video streams and improves user experience at the point of vision.
Requirements
- 3+ years professional experience in video streaming engineering
- knowledge of video streaming protocol (RTP, webRTC), codec (H264, HEVC, VP9), network programming over TCP & UDP
- Knowledge of tuning video streaming parameters
- professional experience to use NVIDIA Jetson platform
- Can build and install custom BSP(Board Support Package)
- Can build and install Gstreamer library
- Can configure L4T(Linux for Tegra) to get maximum performance for video streaming
- Expert in C++ software development on Linux/Ubuntu platform
- Knowledge of modern C++
- Experience to use Gstreamer on C++
- Experience to use Boost library for UDP communication
- Experience in computer vision
- knowledge of image stabilization: e.g. optical flow
- knowledge of lens calibration
- Japanese language skill to communicate with internal/external stakeholders
Desired Skills
- Experience in Unity, C# development
- Knowledge of Texture management, marshaling Texture pointer(DirectX) between C# and C++
- Experience in developing robot control software, ROS(Robot Operation System)
- 3D modeling experience (Fusion 360 or equivalent)
- 3D printer usage/maintenance experience.
- System evaluation experiment planning and implementation experience.
- (Big Plus) Vacuum suction system design experience.
- (Big Plus) Robocon experience, CAE analysis experience.
Robotics Software Engineer (Tokyo, Japan)
The Robotics Software Engineer position is ideal for a candidate who has advanced skills in control software development for robot manipulators with extensive mathematics and algorithm background. The main responsibility will be to develop robot control software to integrate our teleoperation system with third-party robot manipulators such as Universal Robot, and Yaskawa.
Specification:
Responsibilities
- Develop real-time motion control software to control robot manipulators using Inverse Kinematics, collision avoidance and active compliance control algorithms.
- Develop TX’s custom-made robot-hand control software, such as actuator driver integration and ROS framework integration.
- Develop and integrate TX’s teleoperation system with third-party robot manipulators.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or above in the relevant field
- Expert in C++ software development on Linux/Ubuntu platform
- Expert in ROS framework and MoveIt Motion Planning. If we gave you URDF, you should be able to create a ROS environment with MoveIt to control Robot in the Gazebo environment from scratch.
- Experience in developing software to control robot manipulator (e.g. UR series of Universal Robot)
- Hands-on experience with motor control and PID algorithms
- Knowledge of robotics control theory (Kinematics, Dynamics)
- English proficiency to participate/conduct technical discussions with internal teams
Desired Skills
- Japanese language skill to communicate with internal/external stakeholders
- Experience in developing path planning and SLAM
- Experience in developing force/torque control software, such as compliance control
Head of Engineering – Systems & Applications (Tokyo, Japan)
The role is ideal for a candidate who has leadership skills and a proven track record in productizing software for robotic or IoT products.
Specification:
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of several software engineers and experts in the below areas to execute the overall software development roadmap/timeline. Also, play a hands-on role in software development of your own specialty area(s).
- VR/frontend development
- Software integration
- Robot control, motion planning, and kinematics
- Video Streaming
- Backend development
- Robot navigation
- Create and lead robot software development roadmap, in alignment with the overall product and business milestones. Lead collaborative development with internal product development and business teams to deliver on objectives set by CxOs.
- People management (hiring, onboarding, goal management, performance assessment, employee engagement, etc.).
Requirements:
- Proven track record of leading a team to develop and deliver software products to the market.
- Leadership and project management skills to plan, implement, and deliver development roadmap on time, working closely with both internal and external partners.
- Hands-on software development experience in one of the following areas:
- VR/frontend development
- Software integration for robotic or IoT products
- Robot control, motion planning, and kinematics
- Backend systems
- Robot navigation
- Ability to understand business priorities to manage technical development that meets business.
- Excellent track record of creating and executing processes to deliver upon defined technology and business goals/metrics with high standards for quality assurance, release management, and delivery of features.
- Mentorship skills in fast-paced environments, including a strong track record of applying management tactics to effectively build and lead a team.
- Ability to communicate both in English and Japanese.
Robotics Automation Perception Engineer (Tokyo, Japan)
This role focuses on the automation of custom-made manipulators, aiming to automate convenience store and logistics operations without human intervention to a high success rate, by developing perception modules.
Our main focus is to productize the world’s first robot and its perception system to be integrated into the convenience store, logistics and so on. We use a variety of technologies to achieve our goals, from traditional (e.g. computer vision, machine learning) to state-of-the-art (deep learning, reinforcement learning) and expect you to have a similar mindset. Teamwork, flexibility, and quick learning are key soft skills as well. We are hoping to bring the seed which will eventually grow and change the world itself, and we believe the project we’re currently working on is fully capable of doing it. If you want to productize robotics perception technology, this is the place for you. Proven track records of quick-learning, adaptability, and problem-solving can be considered as equivalent skill experience in special cases as well. No robotics background will be required, if you’re a quick learner.
Please join us, and let’s make a big difference in our society.
Specification:
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of an automation system using custom hardware, by developing sophisticated software engineering to do perception, with Deep learning, OpenCV, ROS and so on.
- Leverage Python and C++, develop a custom perception software towards the automation solution.
- Work with other automation engineers and achieve goals set by CxOs .
- Architect the solution with the team, and deploy fast.
- Break up vague goals into concrete steps and manage your own timeline to achieve company goals.
- Collect data, analyze results, and continuously improve algorithms quantitatively
Requirements
- Productization experience
- Complex problem solving skills
- Careful issue monitoring / debugging skills
- Strong experience in implementing complex hardware / software combined system with ROS or equivalent.
- Experience in fields such as computer vision, 3d computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning, as well as experience of implementing state-of-the-art methods from scratch.
- Proficiency in modern Python and C++ (over C++14), along with software architecting skills.
- Experience in linear algebra and 3D perception or equivalent (such as computer graphics)
- Strong experience in deep learning applications (keypoint detection, grasp estimation, 3d reconstruction etc) for real product application
- using pytorch, tensorflow, caffe, etc
- Experience in network / performance optimization
- network layer optimization
- TensorRT / TorchScript etc
- Knowledge about camera calibration / hand-eye calibration.
- Engineering experiences with one or more of the following
- Filtering (Kalman Filter, Particle Filter, MeanShift etc)
- network communication (pub/sub, req/rep, etc)
- Domain randomization using OpenGL, Unity, Unreal Engine, Blender etc
Preferred Skills
- Research experience in CV / AI and related robotics field (CVPR / ICCV / ECCV / ICRA / IROS)
- Working with custom made manipulators
- Work experience in startups
- Experience working with manipulators
- Experience in motion planning, collision avoidance, and path following of robots
- Work experience with game engines such as Unity, Unreal Engine
Robotics Mechanical Engineer (Tokyo, Japan)
The Mechanical Engineer is responsible for developing our new robots from scratch until the mass production phase. Our robots will be deployed into retail shopfronts, therefore they will need to withstand daily use in real-life environments (as opposed to pure R&D use).
Specification:
Responsibilities
System Deployment
– Deployment HW/SW system on site
– QA testing of system performance following the use case checklist
– Accumulation of system deployment know-how
– Maintain a status log of deployed systems
– Manage the inventory of spare parts and system hardware
Operation Maintenance
– HW/SW troubleshooting and repairs/updates
– Provide tech support to operators and store staffs
– Escalate issues to HW/SW Dev Team
– Revision management
Requirements
– Experience using the Ubuntu Linux environment or other Debian-based distros(comfortable with using the SSH terminal)
– Strong grasp of git and use of submodules
– Knowledge about mechanical systems and assembly procedures
– Knowledge of root cause analysis
– Experience providing technical support
– Spoken business English
– JLPT N2 Japanese (reading/writing and spoken)
– Must be able to lift up to 25kg repetitively.
Business Operations Lead – Retail (Tokyo, Japan)
The BizOps Lead will play a key role in driving the scale of TX business by providing leadership in designing and implementing retail store operations that contribute to overall Company profitability.
Specification:
Responsibilities
Business Planning
- Understand Company’s overall business strategies and break them down to short and long-term objectives for retails store operations. Establish operating budgets, goals, and KPIs in line with Company’s business strategies.
- Understand the cost structure of the business and products. Develop and evaluate store financial performance goals to maximize customer value and profitability.
Product Deployment
- Partner with the product deployment team to develop, maintain and improve store installation process, assuming a scale of 100+ stores.
- Work with the internal teams and the store owners to ensure smooth installations of robots.
Retail Store Operations
- Develop and communicate operational goals and directions to store operation teams. Provide support and coaching to ensure timely achievement of the goals.
- Design and implement day-to-day retail operations for optimal use of the robots.
- Research and keep current with the latest industry safety requirements. Develop and update store operation processes to ensure compliance.
- Build, retain, develop, and supervise the team of robot operators.
- Provide operational insights to product development and deployment teams for product improvements.
Customer Success
- Develop a mutually beneficial relationship with the store owners. Ensure alignment in each other’s goals and performance metrics.
- Demonstrate fundamental understanding of TX’s technology and articulate advantages of our robot solutions. Define, measure, and present operational KPIs performance measurements that accurately capture the benefits of the robotic solutions.
- Partner with the store owners to identify customer pain points and help drive escalations by coordinating between product maintenance and support teams.
- Monitor and benchmark commercial retailing practices, conditions, trends, etc., as well as conditions directly impacting the stores such as local demographics, competition, regional regulations, etc. Identify and propose timely action to maximize outcomes for both store owners and TX.
Required Skills and Experience
- Excellent business acumen (financial & operational)
- Professional experience working in business operation, retail operations, project management, and/or customer success.
- Ability to take the lead in cross-functional projects, involving multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate effectively both in Japanese and English.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to build relationships internally (with engineers) and externally (store owners)
Get in Touch
OFFICE
Cross Dock Harumi 1st Floor,
4-7-4 Harumi, Chuo-ku,
Tokyo 104-0053
CONTACT
mail: info@tx-inc.com
TELEXISTENCE Inc. is hiring in TOKYO