Member of Technical Staff

We are occasionally hiring researchers who are passionate about novel approaches to develop the next generation of nature-inspired foundation AI models together with us. We are looking for candidates who we believe have the potential to build great things — people who have passions in pushing the boundaries of areas such as evolutionary computation, generative AI, open-endedness, collective intelligence, artificial life and autonomous agents.

Note : Japanese proficiency is not a requirement for Member of Technical Staff, although you will be expected to live in Japan.

Ideal candidates can demonstrate this by highlighting previous projects or publications related to AI that they are proud of showcasing. For candidates with academic backgrounds, we will be interested in your publications in venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, GECCO, ALIFE, MLSys, JMLR, ICML, IROS, or other peer-reviewed journals or conferences. The ability to write high quality code and having experience contributing to popular open-source software projects will be a strong asset.

Candidates will be expected to be physically based in Tokyo, but we will provide assistance with the Visa application process if needed. We will be offering positions in the form of 4-month internships or part-time student researcher positions (for graduate students already based in Japan).

For candidates interested in longer-term, potentially full-time, applied research and engineering roles , having Japanese language fluency is required, and experience working with Japanese institutions will be beneficial. Please apply for the Applied Research Engineer or Software Engineer roles.

For candidates with a strong engineering background interested in a 1-year or full-time position in our research team, please consider the Software Engineer (Research and Development) role instead. (We are actively recruiting for this role instead).