A startup developing small-scale decentralized water circulation system. Their decentralized water circulation system provides a solution to the problem of water supply and sewerage systems becoming increasingly unprofitable in sparsely populated areas due to population decline and aging facilities. Its effectiveness as a means of preparing for water outages during disasters has also been recognized. The company has been selected for NEDO's support fund and SBIR. Founded: 2014 Total funding: 10 billion yen Number of employees: Over 80

Chuo-ku, Tokyo

You will be responsible for the firmware part of the autonomous water operation, within software engineering area of the company's autonomous and distributed water treatment and reclamation system product. In specific, you will be in charge of some of the following tasks: - Software development for various controls on embedded microcontrollers - Firmware development for newly developed sensor devices, including real-time OS and OS-less firmware - Requirements definition, technology selection, and system architecture design related to the above - Development environment preparation, including CI/CD and automated testing - Bottleneck investigation and performance tuning - Firmware development in C for controller boards including UART, I2C, SPI, and 4-20mA interfaces - - - - - Japan's water supply system, built with construction costs of over 100 trillion yen since the period of rapid economic growth, boasts some of the highest quality in the world and a 98% coverage rate. However, behind this, Japan continues to suffer from a chronic fiscal deficit, and the combined burden of an accelerating population decline and rising costs of replacing aging equipment will further worsen its financial situation. Establishing sustainable financing for water infrastructure is an urgent issue we face in order to ensure a prosperous life without water scarcity for future generations. Development environment, tools, etc. ・STM32CubeIDE, Python, Git, Typescript, Linux ・ST-Link, JTAG-ICE, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Raspberry Pi ・AWS IoT, GitHub

[Required] - Experience with embedded software (Linux, RTOS) - Development experience in multiple languages: C, C++, and Python [Preferred] - Cloud knowledge (AWS is a plus) - Understanding of various communication methods and protocols, such as TCP, BLE, and MQTT - Security knowledge and electronic circuit design experience [Soft skills] - Able to think independently and act independently - Able to always work with a sense of purpose - Able to collaborate with members from diverse backgrounds - Interested in non-electronics fields - Able to dream about new products that combine hardware and software Nice to have

A Japanese startup providing Earth observation by its own constellation of microsatellites, as well as manufacturing, operating support, and contracted development of microsatellites. Establishment: 2008 Capital: 14.29 billion yen

Chuo-ku, Tokyo (Hybrid style of remote & in-person working)

We're strengthening our team of FPGA engineers to support the expansion of our Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) business, a field that will grow significantly with the advent of 5G and beyond. We are looking for passionate individuals who are ready to take on the challenge of building a satellite-based communication infrastructure to help solve global societal issues. Join us and make a difference. - Design and Development: -- Design, develop, and implement modem/demodulation, telemetry, and command processing functions for satellite communication equipment using FPGAs. -- Develop coding/decoding functions, high-speed signal processing, and data transmission capabilities. -- Lead the design and evaluation of boards where FPGAs will be implemented. -- Review and provide feedback on FPGA designs developed in-house. - Testing and Collaboration: -- Lead the design and execution of various tests for developed communication equipment. -- Collaborate with satellite system engineers on interface design and verification testing for communication equipment. -- Work with ground network specialists to design operational procedures and network management system interfaces. - Operational and External Support: -- Provide operational support to the operations team. -- Coordinate with external organizations and vendors.

[Mandatory Requirements] - Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (e.g., Physics). - Practical experience in circuit design for microcontrollers or FPGAs and their peripheral circuits, including power supplies and digital/analog interfaces. - Over five years of experience in FPGA logic design using HDLs and IDEs, with the ability to create test benches. - Experience in designing and verifying high-speed SerDes interfaces. - Experience in designing digital signal processing with FPGAs. - The ability to design and lead various types of tests. - Fundamental knowledge and experience using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, and stabilized power supplies. - Business-level or higher proficiency in Japanese or English. [Favorable Skills/Experiences] - A minimum of three years of experience in embedded hardware development. - Experience with negotiating with external contractors and suppliers, including defining specifications, cost negotiations, and managing delivery schedules. - A solid understanding of computer systems, especially embedded systems, or practical experience in this field. - Experience in schematic and PCB design. - Experience in designing FPGA systems using processor IP cores or SoC-type FPGAs. - Knowledge of embedded software development using C or C++. - Experience with FPGA and software development using Git. - Knowledge of command-line tools and scripting languages like Python. - Knowledge of real-time system development based on RTOS (e.g., FreeRTOS, vxWorks, uCLinux). - Proficiency with configuration management tools. - The ability to set up software build environments. Business-level or higher proficiency in Japanese or English

An AMR startup founded by a former automotive AD tech lead. Owns products such as autonomous transport robot that can switch between AGV mode on trajectory and autonomous mode without pre-defined trajectory, general purpose towing solution for 3rd party trolleys, and fleet management system. Since the product's release in 2022, sales have been steadily increasing. - Established: March 2020 - Workforces: approx. 50 - Capital: JPY 100M

Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken (Business trips with overnight stays often happen during customer-site deployment periods)

The robot system integration engineer (operational data analysis/DevOps) will be responsible for implementing the company's robot system on-site, as well as building and updating data monitoring tools to facilitate the development and operation of the robot. The robot system integration engineer will perform various software configuration tasks associated with the implementation of the company's robot system to customers (e.g., acquiring maps using the robot's LiDAR sensor, tuning the robot's internal driving software, setting driving routes and traffic control, and various server settings). In addition, even after the initial successful implementation, the operation of the company's robot system requires identifying operational issues at the customer's site, considering improvement plans, and working with the customer to continuously create an environment in which humans and robots can work together better. It is also necessary to make preventive improvements so that problems that occur in the robot's hardware and software do not affect operations. For these purposes, it is very important to: - Build an environment in which data obtained from robots in operation can be quickly deployed within the company and easily analyzed - Build a system to continuously deploy new software to customers. In this position, you will be performing integration tasks, with a particular focus on DevOps and operational data analysis. Specific duties are as follows: - Responsible for integrating the company's products to customers - - Configure the automatic transport robot (use Linux, configure ROS (Robot Operating System), run scripts, run Docker) - - At the customer's site, use the company's robots and internal tools to create a map of the installation site and configure operations, and set up the robot so that it can be operated - - Configure the network settings for the company's products such as automatic transport robots, servers, and network devices associated with on-site installation - Build an environment to remotely acquire and view operational data at customer sites - - Update the data acquisition environment built with Prometheus and Grafana to enable more information to be acquired and to make it easier to view. - - Devise and build a system to analyze data, quickly discover problems, and raise alerts. - - Expand the data that can be acquired in response to requests from engineers and operations staff inside and outside the company. - We will devise and implement improvements to the CI/CD system - We will set up and maintain the remote operation and monitoring environment (VPN, etc.)

[Required] - Work experience related to data confirmation and analysis tools - Experience using CUI operations in Linux, etc. (3 years or more) - Business level Japanese or English - Intermediate level Japanese. Able to read documents written in Japanese on one's own (translation tools are acceptable). Able to converse and email with customers in Japanese - Beginner to intermediate level English. Able to communicate text-based via translation tools [Welcome] - Experience in the operation of products involving hardware and mechatronics systems - Coding skills such as C++ and Python - Experience with Ansible - Knowledge and experience using ROS - Cybersecurity knowledge, experience in corporate security management - Experience in anomaly detection and predictive analysis of mechanical systems using data. - Experience using cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.). - Practical experience with container technology (Docker, Kubernetes). - Experience managing web application servers - Experience managing VPN servers - Experience with on-site product implementation - Experience negotiating with customers - Business-level English - Business-level Japanese - People who like autonomous mobile robots - People who have participated in various robot contests, coding challenges, and other events - People who can concurrently fulfill other positions currently being recruited (job content will be defined and adjusted flexibly to a certain extent according to experience, abilities, etc.) Beginner to Intermediate level: - Able to conduct text-based communication with the help of translation tool Business level or higher preferred

A Japanese venture designing and developing commercial small SAR satellites and providing data acquired by them Year of foundation: 2005 Capital: JPY 1,939 million Workforce: 68

Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken

As a member of the satellite hardware development team, you will be responsible for the RF system of a mass-produced model of a small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite that is part of a constellation of 36 satellites. [Details] Various designs, analyses, tests, and evaluations of RF components to be installed on satellites - RF component and system design, device selection - Real machine evaluation using various measuring equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, etc.) - Outsourcing management related to the above

[Required] - Practical experience in component or system development of equipment with RF modules (devices, antennas, etc.) in GHz or higher in the fields of smartphones, automobiles, in-vehicle equipment, home robots, artificial satellites, wireless communication base stations, etc. - Familiar with the design, analysis, and evaluation of RF systems with RF modules in GHz or higher - Familiar with the evaluation of RF systems using RF measurement equipment such as spectrum analyzers and network analyzers [Preferred] - Experience in designing hardware components for artificial satellites - Experience in designing radar equipment - Technical communication skills in English [Desired personality] - Able to work with members inside and outside the company and work on projects as a team Nice to have

A Japanese startup whose mission is to achieve sustainable aquaculture with technology. Provides services such as smart feeder, fish body measurement, behavioral analysis, marine data provision etc. Year of foundation: 2016 Total fund raised: 1.22 billion yen Number of employees: 20+

Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo

One of the company's aquaculture services and current main product is a smart feeder that utilizes AI and IoT technology and is deployed at aquaculture sites in Japan. You will work with suppliers and business teams to improve the hardware design for this product based on user feedback and troubleshooting. [Background for hiring] Demand for the smart feeder is growing rapidly, and feedback from users, who are aquaculture operators, is also on the rise. The company want to strengthen their efforts to improve products and customer satisfaction by listening to such feedback directly at the aquaculture site and observing the situation with their own eyes, while working with suppliers and business teams to quickly reflect it in the manufacturing process and design, and by promoting improvements.

[Required conditions] - Interest in solving problems at aquaculture sites and empathy with the company's mission and values - Experience in design improvements based on customer requests - Experience in mechanical design and development using 3D CAD - Experience in on-site product installation and improvement - People who find it rewarding to sincerely deal with problems that occur on-site and feedback from customers - People who enjoy communicating both inside and outside the company - People who can travel to various parts of Japan - People who have a driver's license and can actually drive [Preferred conditions] - Experience working at a company that provides solutions to the primary industry - Experience in prototype design of equipment structures and mechanisms, and prototype circuits and programs - Basic knowledge of electrical machinery - Experience in designing or maintaining equipment for outdoor use - Product management experience Nice to have

Robotics startup co-founded by robotics researchers. Specialized in flexible and compact robots with unique strength in narrow inspection, pipe inspection, disaster rescue etc. Increasing focus on data platform for infra maintenance. Year of foundation: 2004 Workforces: approx. 30

Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo

・Design micro-services for our robots ・Design drivers for different sensors and devices used in our robots ・Interact with other members from mechanical, electronic and software backgrounds in order to develop and test robots for field applications

Must ・Experience in modern C++ programming (C++17) ・Experience in development and design of REST APIs ・Work experience with database management - SQL/no SQL databases ・Multi Thread programming ・Experience with software test and verification ・Practical experience with GitHub, GitLab (CI/CD) ・Practical experience with Docker ・Capability to develop using both Windows and Linux ・Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in IT or related subjects Preferred ・Knowledge of the main modules of Boost and OpenCV ・Bash (Linux/Windows) ・Knowledge of gRPC ・Python ・TensorFlow Business level

A Japanese venture company planning and developing security robot to work in commercial buildings, office buildings and other facilities. Their autonomous mobile robots are equipped with 3D SLAM by own-made laser sensor and cameras, and are coordinated on cloud platform. The product is in production use at airports and large buildings. Year of foundation: 2016 Capital: approx. 2.2 billion yen Number of employees: appros. 30

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

[System infrastructure development] - Development of software management system for robots: Develop management and update systems for containers that operate on robots - Development of communication infrastructure: Construct and develop communication infrastructure to connect robots to the cloud with high reliability using mobile network etc. - Simulation development: Build a simulation system that supports on-robot software development and evaluation by building a virtual test environment [Low layer robot system development] - Development of device drivers: Create ROS drivers for devices installed on robots and develop calibration tools etc. - Hardware module integration: Analyze and debug the hardware connected to the robot - Embedded software development: Develop firmware for measurement and control devices installed on robots [Environment recognition system development] - Object recognition for security applications using point clouds: Using 3D LiDAR data, develop 3D object recognition and detection systems according to customer requests - Robot image processing: Develop image processing using information such as the position of the robot, fusion processing system for other sensor information and images, etc. [Autonomous navigation system development] - Development of 3D map construction and self-localization system: Develop point-cloud-based probabilistic self-localization system, make it robust, and improve accuracy by fusing a large number of sensor data - Development of robot motion planning system: Develop global and local motion planning system, respond to various environments, enhance robustness etc. - Development of 3D LiDAR data processing system: Achieve high accuracy and reliability of obstacle detection using point cloud [Development of state management system] - Development of a state management system: Organize software module dependencies and develop a system that manages the state of the robot in order to execute user-instructed robot tasks and respond to incidents - Cloud collaboration system: Develop a system that connects the cloud and the state management system on robot - Development of robot's self-diagnosis function [Real-time data distribution system development] - Development of low-latency video distribution system: Develop real-time (sub-second) video processing, encryption, and distribution system to the cloud through mobile network

Mandatory: - C++ (C++11 or later) - Python - Linux - ROS - CI - Unit Testing - GitHub - Agile - Computer Science - Fundamental math knowledge such as linear algebra Preferable: - Deep knowledge in Docker & Linux / udev/systemd / site reliability / AWS - Deep knowledge in mobile communication & network communication / design pattern - Dynamics / knowledge in simulation framework - Knowledge in communication such as USB, and time sync - Ability to read device spec document & circuit diagram / ability to use oscilloscope / spec analysis of communication devices - Development experience on microcontroller - Point cloud processing, PCL - Image processing, OpenCV - Knowledge in probability-statistics / algorithms such as Kalman filter & particle filter - 3D point cloud data processing / SLAM - Optimization, search algorithm - State transition design - AWS IoT / Golang / knowledge in network communication - Image processing / understanding of streaming protocol / understanding of movie & audio encoding Nice to have

Commercial space technology design, manufacture and solution provider

Tokyo

Design, implementation and operation of: -Satellite on-board communication equipment -Ground station communication equipment -Satellite on-board micro-wave sensor Knowledge and skills specific to satellite operation and its data processing system is not mandatory at the time of application.

【Mandatory】 - University or college degree - Work experience in design, simulation and measurement by spectrum analyzer and network analyzer of high-frequency (1+GHz) circuits. 【Desirable】 - Experience in digital modulation and demodulation and/or software defined radios. - Experience in antenna design and/or measurement in electromagnetic anechoic chamber. - Business-level Japanese proficiency. Optional 【Note】 -Knowledge and skills specific to satellite communication system. -