Robotics, Researcher / Engineer
*You MUST apply by October 16th, 11:59 PM Japan Standard Time through our website (here: https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/Careers/japan/), NOT through Handshake. We will not review Handshake applications.
*Please refer to our website linked above for more detailed information about the role below, including job responsibilities, required/preferred qualifications, and links to submit an application.
Position Summary
Our mission is to research novel robotics technologies toward human robot co-existence and we have developed entertainment robots such as aibo and Qrio. We conduct fundamental research and development on various types of robots, such as mobile, manipulator and medical robots, to realize intelligent and dexterous robots in complex dynamic unknown environments.
Our research topics are broad in robotics and include not only theories and algorithms but also development of robot hardware and software through a collaboration of engineers with various backgrounds (mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, software, control and machine learning).
In this job posting, we are looking for researchers who have high expertise in both robotics and machine learning and can develop a novel algorithm combining them for better efficiency, performance, safety and intelligence.
*Note that internship start and end dates are flexible, and that most will commence in late spring/early summer 2023.