Full Stack Engineer - Humanoid Robot Data Platform

About the role

The AI Robot Association (AIRoA) is collecting one million hours of humanoid robot operation data with hundreds of robots to train large Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, and is building an open robot data ecosystem. This full-stack engineer position is based in Tokyo and works on teleoperation systems, data-collection apps and data pipelines.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement teleoperation systems, including real-time control, low-latency audio/video streaming and operator-facing interfaces.
• Work with robot operators to gather feedback and improve the user experience, and provide data-quality feedback through the teleoperation UI.
• Develop and maintain data-collection applications, internal tools and dashboards, and web-based interfaces for managing and monitoring data pipelines.
• Collaborate with VLA and Data/ML platform teams to ensure seamless data ingestion and workflow management.
• Design and implement APIs for data interaction between internal services and external data sources.
• Build configuration-management systems for metadata such as robot configurations and task descriptions.
• Ensure secure communication through authentication and access control.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 4+ years of professional experience as a full-stack engineer, with backend and frontend proficiency.
• Experience leading technical decisions as a Tech Lead, Team Lead or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience in at least one of: event-driven or real-time protocols (WebRTC, WebSocket, MQTT, gRPC), large-scale data processing, or ROS/ROS2 and related web tools.
• English at business level highly appreciated.

Required skills

• Backend: Go and Python FastAPI
• Frontend: Next.js, React
• Cloud: AWS or GCP
• Preferred: microservices, real-time dashboards, robot telemetry, performance analysis, DevOps/SRE, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation), automated testing