R&D-024 Mechanical Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Feb 16, 2026. AI Robot Association scores C on the Alion truth index.
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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 worldʼs 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.
Job Description
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Developing semi-/full-humanoid robots used in projects within AIRoA
- Developing teleoperation systems, including leader-follower systems
- Developing robotic hands
- Building verification/validation environments used in projects and developing jigs/fixtures
AIRoAについて
AI Robot Association（AIRoA）は、画期的な取り組みを開始します。数百台のヒューマノイドロボットを⽤いて、ヒューマノイドロボットの操作データを100万時間分収集し、それを活⽤してVision-Language-Action（VLA）モデルを学習させます。
私たちの独⾃性は、実世界データとヒューマノイドプラットフォームの前例のない規模だけではなく、あらゆるものをオープンでアクセス可能にするというコミットメントにもあります。
AIRoAはデータセット、学習済みモデル、ベンチマークを誰もが利⽤できる共有の「ロボット‧データ‧エコシステム」の構築を⽬指しています。実現が成功すれば、世界中の研究者が、私たちのオープン評価プラットフォームを通じて、標準化されたヒューマノイドロボット上で⾃らのモデルを評価できるようになることを期待しています。
業務内容
- AIRoA内のプロジェクトで使⽤するセミ/フルヒューマノイドの開発
- リーダー‧フォロワーシステムなどのテレオペレーションシステムの開発
- ハンドの開発
- プロジェクトで使⽤する検証環境構築および治具開発
Requirements
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Required Qualifications
Background
- Master’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of professional experience in mechanical design, including product design, mechanism design, and/or enclosure design
- Business-level Japanese proficiency (equivalent to JLPT N2 or above)
Mechanical Design
- Extensive experience designing mechanical products, mechanical assemblies, tools, and jigs/fixtures
- Practical experience in material selection, tolerance definition, and tolerance stack-up analysis where required
- Experience creating and revising 2D drawings, including assembly drawings and part drawings
- Hands-on experience designing assemblies using 3D CAD software such as SolidWorks, CATIA, Onshape, Creo, or equivalent tools
Mechatronics and System Integration
- Experience in mechanical design for mechatronic products involving mechanisms, actuators, and sensors, such as robots, home appliances, mobility products, smart furniture, assistive devices, or similar systems
- Experience collaborating with electrical and software teams to integrate mechanical systems involving sensors and actuation
- Proven ability to make design decisions considering motion, load, and durability, including range of motion, interference, rigidity, weight, heat, and vibration, and to validate those decisions through prototyping and testing
Manufacturing and Quality
- Hands-on experience in prototyping, verification and validation, productization, or mass-production ramp-up
- Experience identifying root causes from test results and failure analysis, implementing design changes, and driving recurrence prevention through to completion
- Practical experience designing with DFx principles, including manufacturability, assemblability, and inspectability
- Experience ensuring post-assembly functionality and performance through tolerance design, including tolerance definition and tolerance stack-up analysis where required
Preferred Qualifications
Technical Expertise
- Experience selecting and integrating actuators, such as brushless DC motors and high-precision gearboxes, as well as sensors such as six-axis force/torque sensors, IMUs, and tactile sensors
- Knowledge of and practical experience applying robot kinematics and dynamics, including forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, and Jacobians
- Hands-on experience with FEA, including linear and nonlinear structural analysis, vibration analysis, thermal analysis, and analytical calculations
- Experience using FEA tools such as ANSYS or Abaqus, and motion simulation tools such as Adams or Gazebo
Robotics Experience
- Direct experience with bipedal robot dynamics and control
- Experience in production and scaling of humanoid robots or similarly complex mechanical systems
- Experience designing and controlling hydraulic or pneumatic actuation systems
Regulations and Safety
- Knowledge of product safety, regulatory, and compliance standards, such as ISO 13482
Manufacturing and Project Management
- Experience working in global manufacturing environments, including supplier selection, mold/tooling design, production launch, and scaling
- Experience delivering turnkey manufacturing solutions
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement tools
- Experience handling production-phase issues and managing design changes through processes such as ECR/ECO
Leadership and Other Experience
- Leadership experience, including mentoring junior engineers and influencing stakeholders
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Experience with consumer hardware, home appliances, smart furniture, assistive devices, mobility products, automotive products, or similarly complex mechatronic products
必須要件
経歴
- 機械⼯学、製造⼯学、または関連分野の修⼠号以上
- 機械設計（製品∕機構∕筐体いずれか）における5年以上の実務経験
- 日本語によるコミュニケーション能力（ビジネスレベル以上）
機械設計
- 機械製品設計、機械アセンブリ、ツール、治具の設計に関する豊富な経験
- 材料選定、公差設定、および必要に応じた公差スタックアップ解析の実務経験
- 2D図⾯（組⽴図‧部品図）の作成、改訂経験
- SolidWorks‧CATIA‧OnShape‧Creo等の3D CADソフトウェアを⽤いたアセンブリ設計の実務経験
メカトロニクス∕システム統合
- ロボット、家電、モビリティ、スマート家具、⽣活⽀援機器など、機構‧駆動‧センサを含むメカトロニクス製品の機械設計経験
- 電⼦、ソフトウェアチームと連携し、センサ∕アクチュエーションを含む機械システムを統合した経験
- 運動、荷重、耐久を考慮した設計判断（可動域、⼲渉、剛性、重量、熱、振動等）を⾏い、試作検証で成⽴させた経験
製造と品質
- 試作、検証‧バリデーション、製品化または量産⽴ち上げに関するハンズオン経験
- 試験結果∕不具合解析に基づき、設計変更で再発防⽌まで⼀貫して対応した経験
- DFx（製造性、組⽴性、検査性等）を考慮した設計の実務経験
- 公差設計（公差設定、必要に応じた公差スタックアップ）により、組⽴後の機能‧性能を成⽴させた経験
歓迎要件
専⾨知識
- アクチュエータ（ブラシレスDCモーター、⾼精度ギアボックス等）およびセンサー（6軸⼒覚センサー、IMU、触覚センサ等）の選定‧統合経験
- ロボットの運動学‧動⼒学（順運動学、逆運動学、ヤコビアン）に関する知識‧実務適⽤経験
- FEA（線形‧⾮線形構造解析、振動解析、熱解析）および解析計算の実務経験
- ANSYS, Abaqus等のFEAツール、Adams, Gazebo等の運動シミュレーションツールの使⽤経験
ロボティクス領域経験
- ⼆⾜歩⾏ロボットのダイナミクスと制御に関する直接的な経験
- ヒューマノイドロボットまたは同等に複雑な機械システムの⽣産‧スケーリングに関する経験
- 油圧‧空圧アクチュエーションシステムの設計‧制御経験
規制‧安全
- 製品の安全性、規制、コンプライアンス基準（例：ISO 13482等）に関する知識
製造とプロジェクト管理
- グローバルな製造環境での業務経験（サプライヤー選定、⾦型設計、⽣産⽴ち上げ、スケーリング等）
- ターンキー製造ソリューションの提供経験
- リーン製造、Six Sigma、継続的改善ツールに関する知識
- 量産フェーズの不具合対応∕設計変更運⽤（ECR/ECO等）経験
リーダーシップとその他
- 若⼿エンジニアの指導や、ステークホルダーへの影響⼒を発揮したリーダーシップ経験
- 多分野エンジニアリングチームをリードする能⼒
- コンシューマー向けハードウェア、家電、スマート家具、⽣活⽀援機器、モビリティ、⾃動⾞、または同様に複雑なメカトロニクス製品での経験
Benefits
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