VP of Robotic Foundation Model

Professional Experience

Proven experience leading or managing high-performing ML, robotics AI, or multimodal foundation model teams.

Strong track record of taking advanced AI or robotics systems from research or prototype stage into reliable real-world operation.

Experience owning team execution, technical direction, prioritization, and stakeholder alignment for complex engineering programs.

Demonstrated ability to lead in environments where both deep technical contribution and strong management are required.

Technical Skills

Multimodal / Foundation Model Expertise

Deep expertise in designing, training, and evaluating large-scale multimodal models, such as vision-language, vision-language-action, or related transformer-based systems.

Strong understanding of modern training paradigms, model scaling, fine-tuning, representation learning, and inference optimization.

Robotics & Real-World Deployment

Experience integrating AI/ML systems with physical robots under real-world operational constraints.

Strong understanding of robotics software stacks, robot sensing, action representation, and the practical realities of deploying learned systems on hardware.

Familiarity with robotics middleware such as ROS1/2 and with embedded or edge AI deployment platforms such as Jetson.

Data & Infrastructure

Strong experience building data pipelines and training systems for large, complex multimodal datasets including images, video, text, robot trajectories, and sensor logs.

Familiarity with distributed training frameworks and production ML infrastructure.

Systems Thinking

Solid understanding of how high-level model decisions interact with low-level robot execution, control, safety, and system boundaries.

Strong engineering judgment in balancing research ambition with deployment practicality.

Soft Skills & Culture Fit

Ownership mentality : takes responsibility for outcomes, not only technical ideas.

Managerial maturity : able to lead, coach, evaluate, and grow a strong team.

User-centric mindset : understands how model capabilities must translate into useful, reliable product behavior for customers and operators.

Comfortable in a high-performance, high-accountability environment.

Strong communication skills in English; Japanese proficiency is a plus.