Company Name
Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd.
Job Type
Corporate IT
(Fixed-term employment, renewable)
Work Detail
About Honda Research Institute (HRI)
As a wholly owned subsidiary of Honda R&D Co., Ltd., HRI was established in 2003 in Japan, the United States, and Europe as an organization dedicated to venturing into new fields beyond automotive technology.
Our philosophy is "Innovation through Science." Toward the realization of a hybrid society in which people, the global environment, and intelligent systems coexist in harmony, we focus on communication and sensing, such as cooperative intelligence and cooperative devices, through a multifaceted approach incorporating artificial intelligence, robotics, systems science, neuroscience, materials science, psychology, and social ethics.
- Research to realize multimodal human-machine communication through interactions that take into account the human mental state
- Development of a speech recognition system that promotes mutual understanding between hearing-impaired and hearing individuals
- Development of a system for estimating a person's internal state (e.g., level of understanding) using cameras and wearable sensors
■Job Description
We are seeking an "IT Leader" to support research activities at a Honda Group research center conducting research on human-machine communication, including artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), voice recognition, and robot operation systems.
This position will serve as both IT Governance Leader and Corporate Governance Leader. You will propose strategic directions for IT systems and implement plans approved by the board.
[Job Details]
- Formulating corporate IT strategies, from planning to post-implementation evaluation, improvement, and operation
- Maintaining and managing security collaboration with the Honda Group and inter-group networks
- Improving and operating governance systems across all corporate activities
Specifically,
- Formulating and promoting IT investment strategies
- Implementing and managing research infrastructure systems such as GPU servers
- Comprehensive improvement and management of the internal network environment
- Managing SaaS (AWS/Github/Atlassian/Office365/Box/Slack, etc.)
- Improving and operating confidentiality management systems and regulations
- Establishing and operating an internal approval system
- Maintaining and managing the internal approval system, etc.
Your mission is to support cutting-edge AI research activities and accelerate research while maintaining a high level of IT system security and compliance.
You will align the organization's research and IT strategies and effectively manage and operate IT resources. You will also support efficient goal achievement through risk management and compliance assurance.
Department: Administration Division (6 people, including accounting and labor)
The IT team is led by this position and has three contractors working under it.
- Approximately half of our employees are foreign nationals, creating a highly international workplace. Communication within the company is conducted daily in both Japanese and English.
- We have sister companies in the United States and Europe (Germany), and we are developing research projects in collaboration with these three regions. The IT department also works in collaboration with these three regions to support research and facilitate global information sharing.
- We provide researchers with considerable discretion and encourage them to actively present their research results. We have a culture that respects the company's direction while also valuing the researchers' opinions.
- The workplace is located within Honda Motor Co.'s Wako Building Campus, a suburban office building that has won numerous awards.
What we especially look for in a PhD or postdoctoral fellow
For this position, it is important that you have not only knowledge of IT systems but also an understanding of basic research, and we especially expect PhD graduates (including prospective PhD graduates) to deepen their understanding of our company's research in a broad range and continue to learn.
