Research Engineer

Summary

Join Woven by Toyota, a Toyota Group company, and contribute to the future of mobility. We are seeking engineers passionate about commercializing cutting-edge technologies. You will lead research and development of remote communication applications, focusing on context analysis and user experience enhancement. This hybrid role requires expertise in machine learning, multimodal information analysis, and communication technology. You will collaborate with a team, develop innovative solutions, and contribute to the advancement of our remote services. We offer a competitive salary, flexible work hours, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Master's or PhD degree in computer science, data science, Psychology, cognitive science, or related field
• However, master's or doctoral degrees in fields other than the above and relevant work experience will also be considered
• 3+ years of working experiences in scene analysis and situation understanding using multimodal information
• Ex) estimating opinions from the conversational context, estimating participants' aims and intentions, analysing the progress of the meeting
• Development experience with libraries for machine learning / deep learning
• Proficiency in business-level Japanese and commitment to improving English skills

Responsibilities

• Lead research, development and demonstration of usability in remote Communication and seek innovative solutions
• Develop technology to automatically estimate the speaker’s opinion and stance using multimodal information available during remote communication
• Develop technology that recognises and categorises agreement and disagreement, interest and concern with statements, and visualises the progress of meetings and points of conflict
• Develop verification applications using the above and verify their effectiveness in the actual user environment
• Communicate research plan, status, and other aspects to project stakeholders
• Collect data and develop machine learning product/services, (build, verify, and deploy models)
• Propose patents or write research papers and give academic presentations
• Follow research papers and the latest technological trends and introduce state of the art technologies in projects
• Train team members in the area of expertise and encourage knowledge sharing

Preferred Qualifications

• Quick implementation skills from the the latest research papers
• Experience in developing conference support and facilitation tools
• Experience of being accepted to peer-reviewed conferences or papers, etc
• Experience in product development using machine learning. ( i.e. recommendation, Emotional Estimation, AI-assistant bot, etc.)
• Development experience with vision, audio, and Natural language
• Conversation analysis, behavior recognition and analysis, sentiment and emotion analysis, context modelling, discourse analysis, etc
• Expertise in the field of psychology or cognitive science

Benefits

• Competitive Salary - Based on experience
• Work Hours - Flexible working time
• Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated)
• Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated)
• Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company
• Japanese Social Insurance - Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance
• Housing Allowance
• Retirement Benefits
• Rental Cars Support
• In-house Training Program (software study/language study)