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FastLabel is seeking a Data Scientist to lead AI data projects focused on analyzing and digitizing tacit knowledge from manufacturing sites. This role involves designing data collection, analyzing multimodal data (interviews, video, keypoints, eye-tracking), and developing AI models to structure and automate the extraction of skilled workers' knowledge for AI inheritance. You will contribute to a national project and help build foundational technologies for future robotics AI.
Must-haves
- Practical Python development experience
- Linux environment development experience
- Team development experience using Git/GitHub
- Development and operation experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Experience analyzing image, video, point cloud, and other data using AI models
- Knowledge and experience in machine learning/deep learning
- Experience building training, inference, and evaluation pipelines for models (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, etc.)
- Theoretical knowledge of general statistics, machine learning, and computer vision
- Strong interest in people and activities generating data
- Communication skills for aligning technical requirements
- Problem-solving ability for uncharted technical challenges
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in research related to tacit knowledge and embodied knowledge
- Experience digitizing human movements and analyzing them with linguistic information
- Experience implementing, training, and evaluating VLA, VLM, and LLM models
- Knowledge of efficient training and inference methods for large-scale models
- Experience using libraries like Transformers, PEFT (LoRA/QLoRA), Unsloth, vLLM
- Experience operating experiment management tools (MLflow, WandB)
- Experience using workflow engines (Hydra)
- Experience handling robot datasets (Open X-Embodiment)
Tech stack
PythonLinuxGitGitHubAWSGCPAzurePyTorchTensorFlowJAXVLMsLLMsVLATransformersPEFTLoRAQLoRAUnslothvLLMMLflowWandBHydraOpen X-Embodiment
Work style
Flextime system (5:00 - 22:00, core time 10:00-14:00) with work locations at Tokyo Headquarters, Robot Training Center (Heiwajima), or client sites (Tokyo metropolitan area).
Other notes
Annual salary: 6,000,000 - 15,000,000 JPY. Includes fixed overtime and late-night allowances. Salary is determined based on current income, role, expected mission, and performance level.