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Our flagship technology is the Kanaria Robotic Model (KRM), an embodiment-agnostic, multimodal foundation model that gives robots socially aware and anticipatory navigation. We are starting with AMRs and will extend to other embodiments over time.\nAbout the Physical AI Team\nThe Physical AI team owns KRM (the multimodal navigation foundation model) at the core of everything we ship. This is our frontier research and model-development group: it defines KRM's architecture, trains it at scale, and drives the roadmap toward social navigation.\nThe Role\nWe are looking for an AI engineer to help design, train, and advance KRM. You will work at the intersection of foundation models, computer vision, and robot learning. You'll build a model that perceives multimodal scenes, predicts how they will evolve, and produces both robot trajectories and human-readable interpretability outputs.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign, train, and iterate on KRM that ingests vision (plus LiDAR, radar, audio, and depth when available) and outputs navigation signal together with interpretability signals.\nDevelop and improve the observation encoders and the cross-attention world-state representation.\nImprove the existing decoders that predict semantic segmentation, optical flow, depth, and camera pose for the current and future frames (the model's short-horizon world model).\nAdvance the camera-pose-prediction learning objective that helps to gather training data at scale.\nWork on per-robot RL policies that adapt the shared model to specific hardware.\nDrive roadmap items: better world representations, observation/action decoupling, language integration, and feedback loops.\nBuild and scale the large-scale video data pipeline that feeds training.\nBuild a benchmarking system for social robot navigation.\nWhat We're Looking For\nStrong foundation in deep learning and modern neural network architectures (transformers, attention).\nHands-on experience training large models in PyTorch (or an equivalent framework).\nSolid Python engineering skills and comfort working with large-scale data.\nBackground in one or more of: computer vision, multimodal learning, robot learning, or world models.\nNice to Have\nExperience with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, world models, video understanding, and 3D geometry / SLAM.\nReinforcement learning, especially sim-to-real or robot control.\nSimulation experience (e.g., Isaac Sim) and synthetic data generation.\nA research track record (publications) in relevant areas.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2636,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Japan","iso":"JP","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Robotics AI","Robotic Software & Control Systems"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-18T01:14:54Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":7,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":0.4,"p_active":0.473,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":58,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["seen:58","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/kanaria-tech-ai-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/kanaria-tech-ai-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T10:12:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":15420,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":20432},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=20432"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fkanaria-tech-ai-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fkanaria-tech-ai-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fkanaria-tech-ai-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/kanaria-tech-ai-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fkanaria-tech-ai-engineer"}]}