Through enthusiastic ideas, let’s create excitement
for an as-yet unseen world.

• Image Recognition

  In this field, we carry out world-class, cutting-edge research and work to incorporate the results into products. Research is performed using data retained at DENSO, as well as company and external supercomputers. We emphasize discussion, not only within the company but also with leaders in the field by conducting joint research. Anticipated research themes are research and development into advanced recognition and understanding with regard to images of the peripheral environments around vehicles, as well as image recognition in industrial robots and production facilities.

  Related technical fields
  Machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, image retrieval, multiple view geometry, time sequence data analysis

• HMI

  In this field, we aim to achieve a user interface that leaves an impression on the driver. We will conduct a theoretical analysis of driver behavior and an evaluation of conceptual technology by using driving simulators equipped with various sensors, as well as the headquarters’ test course. Anticipated research themes are research and development into understanding the characteristics and intentions of the driver and providing an agent that can hold an intelligent dialogue, as well as the natural language processing underpinning this.

  Related technical fields
  Natural language processing, knowledge acquisition, behavior understanding • prediction, interaction, biological information sensing

• Signal processing

  In this field, we aim to achieve technology that can create highly competitive products. In addition to realizing ideas that extract the highest performance from the next-generation sensors being developed at the headquarters, we are also involved in the development of signal processing for future sensors. Anticipated research themes are research and development of the algorithms to integrate information from surrounding environment recognition, and information from multi-sensors, using automotive sensors such as radar and Lidar.

  Related technical fields
  Mathematical statistics, signal processing, machine learning, sensor/data Fusion

• Control/New Territory

  In this field, we are targeting the frontier of control for cars and robots, etc. We are working on research and development by simulating ideas and carrying out repeated confirmation with real machines, in cooperation with headquarters. Our themes deal with research and development of motion planning algorithms that operate not only a single object but also multiple objects in real time.

  Related technical fields
  Model predictive control, real-time optimal control, non-linear optimization, mixed integer programming

Jobs and Application

• Tasks associated with position As the staff researcher in charge of generating game-changing technology within the field of next-generation mobility (automobiles, etc.), the candidate will conduct research with the aim of making presentations at top conferences while also promoting product development at DENSO.

• Applicant Field

  Candidates capable of using expert knowledge of information processing to conduct R&D into automobile systems and services for future mobility.

  Welcomed research and development fields
  Digital signal processing, image recognition, machine learning, pattern recognition, text mining, data mining, natural language processing, voice recognition, dialog, information searching, deep learning, optimization problems, Bayesian estimation, security.

• Target Fields

  Current targets are focused on automobiles, and include sensing systems for ambient surroundings, image recognition, dialog, user interfaces, and control. We respect the autonomy of our researchers, and there are many themes that arise which researchers will find interesting or worth pursuing. In terms of the future, we view with great importance the technology surrounding connected cars and MaaS, both of which are essential for a cloud-based traffic society.

• Employment Type

  Regular employee (contractual term: none)
  Trial period: Three months (no change in labor conditions. Paid holidays will be provided as normal.)

• Work Location Headquarters: Shibuya (five minute walk from Shibuya station)
  Shibuya Cross Tower 28F, 2-15-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 〒150-0002

• Form of Employment

  Discretionary work system

• Salary

  (Example)
  Age 24, Yearly salary: Approx. 4,800,000 yen

  Age 27, Yearly Salary: Approx. 6,000,000 yen

  Age 30, Yearly Salary: Approx. 7,200,000 yen

  Age 35, Yearly Salary: Approx. 9,000,000 yen

  Age 40, Yearly Salary: Approx. 12,000,000 yen
  These are only examples, and actual salary will be commensurate with abilities and performance.

  Biannual bonus (July, December)
  Salary adjustments: once per year

• Days off・Holidays

  121 days off per year:
  ・Saturdays and Sundays (however, during weeks when a public holiday falls on a weekday, Saturday may be treated as a normal working day)
  ・as many as 10 days each during Golden Week, Summer Vacation, and the New Year
  ・yearly paid holidays (10 days in first year, maximum of 20 days per year (days can be carried over from one year to next); special holidays

  *Paid leave, etc. Paid vacation days may also be used for illness, treatment of physical wounds, nursing of family members, or accompanying of family members on their medical appointments.

• Welfare・Benefits

  ・Social Insurance Plan: Health, welfare pension, disaster;
  ・100％ compensation for commuting costs;
  ・leave for maternity, child-rearing, and family medical care;
  ・DENSO stock ownership;
  ・DENSO Group Comprehensive Security (life insurance), DENSO Group Automotive Insurance;
  ・DENSO, Toyota G health insurance facilities available;
  ・massage chairs, soft drinks (free), rest zone;
  ・up to three company parties per year, Telecommuting from home (five days per month), company compensation for academic conference costs, support for social gatherings every quarter, no dress code

• Various Systems

  Incentive-based Renumeration Bounty System
  Awards from Academic Groups (70,000 yen), Ph.D. acquisition (70,000 yen), patent application and registration (10,000 yen for each), new hires who hold a doctorate upon joining the company will be paid a one-time bonus of 500,000 yen.

  Apprentice System
  For the purposes of human resource development, we dispatch employees as research fellows to research institutions in Japan and abroad for two-year periods. (Past examples: MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford University)
  English language training (Support for TOEIC Test registration fees), support for doctoral acquisition (100,000 yen per year, up to three times), DENSO employee training.

  Tech Salon
  Every Thursday evening, we offer an opportunity for technology presentations and discussions over drinks. Employees are free to participate or not. We are constantly thinking of new ways to invigorate information exchange, inter-researcher improvement, and generation of new ideas.

• Company Characteristics

  ■Our company is a place where researchers can utilize their pastresearch content, while also consulting with others to discover new challenges. We recommend lifetime researchers, and treasure their expertise and passion.
  ■We emphasize the importance of academic activity to information transmission and the profound study of technology; we challenge ourselves to pursue research that will be accepted at top conferences. In addition, we actively encourage attendance at academic conferences as a way of catching up on the latest technological trends.
  ■By utilizing the strengths of the DENSO Group and collaboration with DENSO, we ensure that the results of our employees’ research are released into the world. We work on multiple research themes that exceed the framework of automobiles.
  ■We constantly seek to invigorate exchange between a diverse range of people and technologies, growth of researchers, and new systems that will lead to new ideas and discoveries. Discussions are carried out in a laid-back atmosphere, sometimes over drinks, with lively discussion and debate.
  ■Depending on the relevant research themes, researchers are assigned to different clusters, but actual work is not limited to those clusters or divisions. Through conversations between researchers and individuals, new themes that exceed the framework are born.

• Contact Us

  Shibuya Cross Tower 28F, 2-15-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 〒150-0002
  DENSO IT Laboratory, Inc. Applicant contact
  Email: saiyoh@d-itlab.co.jp
  Personal information collected by this company about applicants will not, except in cases determined by law or carried out with the consent of the subject, be used for any purpose other than that which is necessary to determine hiring.

Screening schedule

• Entry
• Document screening (1st )
• Interview(2nd time)
• Employment

*2nd: SHL suitability test and interview
Interview・・・Technology presentation and question & answer session. Interviewers are the President, CTO, and researchers in applicable fields.
Interview date and time: holidays are not available; 18:00 onwards available.

Entry form