Robotics Reliability Engineer

📋 Job Overview

AI Robot Association (AIRoA) is an organization dedicated to collecting large-scale real-world robot data, including data from humanoid robots, and advancing the development of generative AI foundation models in the field of robotics. AIRoA has been selected by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and NEDO as an implementing organization for the development of a data platform for generative AI foundation models in robotics under the “Post-5G Information and Communication Systems Infrastructure Enhancement R&D Project.” The project budget is JPY 20.5 billion.

🏢 About AI Robot Association

AIRoA is an organization dedicated to collecting large-scale real-world robot data, including data from humanoid robots, and advancing the development of generative AI foundation models in the field of robotics. AIRoA has been selected by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and NEDO as an implementing organization for the development of a data platform for generative AI foundation models in robotics under the “Post-5G Information and Communication Systems Infrastructure Enhancement R&D Project.” The project budget is JPY 20.5 billion.

🎯 The Role

You will be responsible for installing, initially configuring, commissioning, and obtaining site acceptance for physical robots, as well as creating checklists and recovery procedures, standardizing deployment processes, and managing operations at deployment sites.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Deployment and Commissioning: Responsible for installing, initially configuring, commissioning, and obtaining site acceptance for physical robots, as well as creating checklists and recovery procedures, standardizing deployment processes, and managing operations at deployment sites.
• Incident Response: Diagnose and isolate software, network, sensor, actuator, power, mechanical, and environmental issues that arise in the field, provide initial response, and help prevent recurrence.
• Log Analysis and RCA: Use ROS/ROS 2 logs, system logs, sensor logs, operation logs, error codes, and video recordings to document root causes, reproduction conditions, scope of impact, temporary countermeasures, and permanent corrective actions.
• Quality and Maintainability Improvements: Provide the Engineering team with specific feedback to improve quality, repairability, operability, user experience, and on-site safety.
• Process and Knowledge Standardization: Develop deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting procedures, checklists, work standards, and workflows to enable the team to operate repeatably.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Hands-on troubleshooting experience with physical systems involving robots, industrial automation equipment, mechatronic products, factory automation equipment, or mobile robots.
• Experience analyzing logs and isolating faults in physical systems, and designing improvements through resolution.
• Ability to document reproduction steps, root-cause hypotheses, response history, and improvement requests in a format clearly understood by engineering teams.
• Experience with on-site deployment, testing, adjustment, recovery, stakeholder coordination, and compliance with safety procedures, or an equivalent practical, hands-on approach.
• Ability to collaborate across Hardware, Software, Integration, Simulation, Operations, and other teams, and translate field issues into technical challenges.
• Business level Japanese

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with ROS/ROS 2, bag/log analysis, state machines, remote monitoring, OTA, diagnostic tools, health checks, or anomaly detection.
• Experience with RCA, FMEA, FRACAS, MTBF/MTTR, maintainability design, quality improvement, failure classification, or recurrence-prevention processes.
• Knowledge of motors, gearboxes, sensors, actuators, electrical systems, industrial networks, robotic arms, or material-handling equipment.
• Experience with multi-robot operations, fleet management, field operations, customer-site deployments, or maintenance partner management.
• Experience or qualifications in industrial safety, robot safety, on-site safety culture, risk assessment, or work standardization.

🎁 Benefits

Few initiatives globally match the scale of this project in collecting large-scale robotic data and developing foundation models for embodied AI. As part of one of Japan’s leading national programs, the project is supported by a 20.5 billion yen investment from NEDO. This role will be central to the project’s success. You will have significant ownership and technical autonomy, with the opportunity to shape core systems that define the future of large-scale robotics and embodied AI. Engineers are strongly encouraged to grow their careers through this initiative—for example, by leading system deployments, contributing to open-source robotics software, and driving engineering excellence across large-scale robotic platforms.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No specific visa or eligibility information provided.