The Role
Lead and coordinate robotics product development and deployment projects for Japanese logistics customers. Design, build, monitor, and optimize robotic systems across the technology stack; guide system architecture; support commissioning, debugging, root-cause analysis, feature triage, and operational reliability. Collaborate with customers, system integrators, and U.S.-based engineering teams while identifying technical risks and driving architectural decisions.
Summary Generated by Built In
Robotics System Engineer, Japan
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Travel Required: Open to travel up to 20% of working hours (mainly to Bay Area, California)
Job Classification: Full Time
Reports to: Head of Japan
About The Role
To meet growing demands from the Japanese market, especially from the top Japanese logistics companies, we are now looking for a new engineering leader who could manage ongoing and upcoming projects in Japan. The projects are expected to be complex and dynamic, involving external and internal stakeholders from customers to system integrators to Dexterity’s core engineering teams in the US. You will play a critical role in coordinating successful product development and deployment at scale.
Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
Work closely with HQ’s core teams to develop products/systems to meet the requirements of Japanese customers
Work throughout the technology stack to design, build, and monitor solutions and systems that improve operational efficiency and system reliability and enable scalability
Guide systems architecture (build-out and improvements) by offering suggestions for reliability and optimization of production systems
Understand the Dexterity system architecture, individual sub-system components, and their dependencies and explain to partners and customers how the Dexterity system works when required
Support the system commissioning process with Linux command line to ensure successful deployments and operations of robotics applications in Japan
Confirm existing and new features required by Japanese customers and discuss whether or not to triage features in line with business impacts
Support the process of root cause analysis and debugging to maintain deployed system operations
Introspect on the performance (speed, quality, and autonomy) of control, vision, and data software running on the robot system and develop optimizations to improve them
Support product definition and drive closure of architecture and technical opens in the early stages of a project
Identify and highlight technical risk areas and mitigation strategies in partnership with key stakeholders
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The Company
What We Do
We deliver full-stack robot dexterity solutions for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain operations. Our robots pick, move, pack, and collaborate with human-like skill in existing infrastructure to solve the toughest problems in material handling.
