# R&D-013 Junior Research Scientist (VLAs)

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 initiati

- **Id**: 185
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/airoa-rd-013-junior-research-scientist-vlas>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Tokyo, Japan
- **Countries**: JP
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-01-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-01-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T02:24:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 298
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4453
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Humanoid Robots, AI Training Data & Annotation, Nonprofits & Foundations

## Company

- **Id**: 322
- **Name**: AI Robot Association
- **Domain**: airoa.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/airoa>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: D
- **Score**: 50
- **Open postings**: 46
- **Ghost share**: 0.826
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Technologies

- **Embodied AI** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **RLHF** — Optional: no
- **Sim-to-Real** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: yes
- **Isaac Sim** — Optional: yes
- **Model Predictive Control** — Optional: yes
- **MuJoCo** — Optional: yes
- **PyBullet** — Optional: yes
- **ROS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 297

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2025-09-25T00:00:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 3
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.101
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 297
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, ghost, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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