About Omakase Robotics
Omakase Robotics is building Omakase OS — a software and systems stack that turns robots into reliable workers for human spaces.
We started from software, but quickly learned that software alone is not enough for real-world deployment. Making robots useful in hospitals, hospitality, and retail requires hardware, autonomy, interaction, and operations designed together. Our focus is not lab demos — it's robots that work in the field.
We partner with leading platforms including Unitree and are actively validating robots in real environments such as hospitals. Our long-term goal: make robots practical, affordable, and widely deployable.
About this Role
As a Data Engineer at Omakase Robotics, you will build the data infrastructure that feeds our AI and autonomous systems. Every sensor reading, robot action, and field operation generates valuable data — you will make that data reliable, usable, and impactful for VLA model training, SLAM improvement, and operational monitoring. Unlike competitors building warehouse fleet dashboards, your primary charter is the ELA (Embodied Learning from Action) pipeline — training data that makes our robots smarter in the real world.
What You'll Do
- Build real-time and batch data collection pipelines for robot sensor data and operational logs
- Design and manage training datasets for VLA models and SLAM systems (preprocessing, versioning, quality control)
- Design and implement the ELA (Embodied Learning from Action) pipeline end-to-end
- Architect and operate cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, or equivalent)
- Build robot fleet monitoring dashboards and operational reporting (Grafana, Looker, etc.)
- Partner with the AI team on experiment tracking and model evaluation infrastructure (MLflow, Kubeflow)
- Automate data quality monitoring and alerting
- Build real-time streaming infrastructure (Kafka, Pub/Sub) for live robot telemetry
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of data engineering experience in a professional setting
- Strong Python and/or SQL skills for large-scale data processing
- Experience building and operating cloud data infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- ETL/ELT pipeline design and implementation (Airflow, dbt, Spark, or equivalent)
- Data warehouse design experience
Nice to Have
- Experience processing robotics, autonomous systems, or sensor data
- MLOps experience (MLflow, Kubeflow, Weights & Biases)
- Real-time streaming experience (Kafka, Pub/Sub)
- Familiarity with multithreading and data-sharing patterns (circular buffers, channels, locks)
- English-only candidates welcome — Japanese not required for this role
Who Will Thrive Here
- Thrive in an early-stage startup where you help define how things work
- Want direct, hands-on access to real robots — a level of freedom rare at larger companies
- Move fast, iterate quickly, and care about shipping things that work in the field
- Excited about Japan's first robotics OS platform and its real-world deployments (hospital, Tsukuba PoC)
Omakase Roboticsについて
Omakase Roboticsは、ロボットを人の生活空間で実際に働かせるためのソフトウェア・システム基盤「Omakase OS」を開発しています。
私たちは当初ソフトウェアからスタートしましたが、実環境でのデプロイにはソフトウェアだけでは不十分と学びました。病院・ホテル・小売などの環境でロボットを実用化するには、ハードウェア・自律ナビゲーション・HRI・運用を一体として設計する必要があります。
私たちの目標は、研究室のデモで終わるロボットではなく、実際の現場で稼働するロボットをつくることです。
現在、Unitreeなどのロボットプラットフォームと連携し、病院などの実環境での検証を進めており、長期的には、ロボットを社会で広く・実用的に低コストで展開することを目指しています。
このポジションについて
Omakase Roboticsでは、Vision-Language-Action(VLA)モデルを活用したEmbodied AIの開発を進めています。
Data Engineerは、ロボットから得られる実世界データを高品質な学習データへと変換するための、データ収集基盤の構築・運用を担います。従来のETLや分析基盤を構築するData Engineerとは異なり、Robotics・AI・Field Deploymentチームと連携しながら、データ収集・品質管理・データセット管理を通じてEmbodied AIの継続的な改善を支えるポジションです。
主な業務内容
- VLAモデル学習向けロボティクスデータ収集基盤の構築・運用
- カメラ、LiDAR、IMU、ロボットテレメトリーなどのマルチモーダルデータセットの設計・管理
- データ品質管理、バリデーション、データセットバージョニングの仕組みの構築
- Robotics・AI・Field Deploymentチームと連携したデータ収集プロセスの改善
- ロボットテレメトリー、実験管理、およびEmbodied AI向けデータ基盤の運用支援
必須要件
- Robotics、Embodied AI、または機械学習分野におけるデータ基盤構築の実務経験(3年以上)
- ロボティクス向けデータ収集基盤、またはRobot Learningワークフローの構築・運用経験
- カメラ、LiDAR、IMUなどのマルチモーダルセンサーデータの取り扱い経験
- Pythonによる開発経験
- Vision-Language-Action(VLA)、Robot Learning、SLAMなどのロボティクス技術に関する知識
歓迎スキル
- ROS / ROS2の利用経験
- LeRobot、MCAP、RLDSなどのロボティクス向けデータフォーマットの利用経験
- Teleoperationやロボットデータ収集オペレーションの経験
- MLflow、Weights & BiasesなどのExperiment Trackingツールの利用経験
こんな方と働きたい
- 立ち上げフェーズをともに楽しめる方
- 実際にロボットに直接触れられる環境を求めている方(大企業や上場企業では得難い自由度があります)
- ハードワークを厭わず、スピード感を持って動ける方
- 現場での課題解決を楽しめる方
- つくば大学PoC・病院検証など、すでに始まっている実環境でのロボット導入・運用に携わりたい方
About Omakase Robotics
Building AI That Enables Robots to Work Alongside People.
Omakase Robotics is developing the software intelligence that allows robots to understand, navigate, and operate safely in human environments. Rather than building robots for a single purpose, the company is creating a robot-agnostic AI operating system that combines perception, planning, voice interaction, and autonomous decision-making to help robots perform meaningful work across industries. Inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Omotenashi, Omakase Robotics aims to create machines that naturally assist people in everyday life.
Bringing Intelligence into the Physical World
Building on ZEALS' expertise in AI agents and conversational intelligence, Omakase Robotics extends that intelligence into robotics. By combining advances in foundation models, computer vision, cloud robotics, and autonomous planning, the team is creating software that enables robots from different manufacturers to continuously learn, adapt, and collaborate with people. The vision is to accelerate the adoption of practical service robots in environments such as healthcare, hospitality, retail, logistics, and beyond.
Solving Some of Robotics' Hardest Problems
Robotics is one of the most challenging fields in software engineering, requiring expertise across AI, distributed systems, real-time computing, and hardware integration. Engineers at Omakase Robotics work on technologies including Robot Operating System (ROS 2), computer vision, motion planning, cloud infrastructure, and multimodal AI. Every project is designed to move robots one step closer to operating safely and autonomously in the real world.
Omakase Robotics is part of ZEALS. Check out their company profile here for more information!
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