We are looking for researchers (regular or contract) and postdoctoral researchers.
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Job description
IIJ Research Laboratory focuses on Internet technologies that enrich our person-to-person communications. We research and develop future technologies and services focusing on 3 to 5 years from now. Members are either expected to publish high quality papers, lead future research areas, contribute to world wide Internet operations, develop future Internet core technologies, and/or develop prototype systems.
We are working on the following areas at the moment, but the research and development areas are not limited to these areas.
- Super large scale distributed infrastructure and services
- Cloud/Edge computing
- Internet routing technologies
- Traffic measurement and data analysis
- Network system automatic configuration and control
- Internet security
- Open source software development and deployment
Required qualifications
- Required skills and qualifications
- Doctoral degree of computer science (or related areas) or same level of research and development skills
- Deep knowledge about Internet theories and technologies
- Programming skills
- Communication and literacy skills in English
- Valuable additional qualifications
- Good publication records
- Development of open source software
- Development of operating systems and/or device drivers
- Project management skill
Terms of employment
- Salary
- Monthly salary (depending on skills) plus overtime
- Working hours
- Flextime or discretionary labor system
- Days off and leave
- Regular days off (every weekends), national holidays, paid leave, and other special occasions
- Welware
- Health insurance, employee's pension insurance and fund, unemployment insurance, retirement allowance, national pension, accident compensation insurance
- Visa support
- Initial support for the document handling required at the immigration authority in Japan.
Selection process
Applicants are required to submit their CV/resume and a PDF document describing their list of publications/activities (and additional documents if any, such as recommendation letters). After careful review of the documents, we will hold two interviews (either face to face or remote) for a few selected applicants. In the first interview, we will ask applicants to have a ~40 minutes presentation including past achievements and research plans at the IIJ research laboratory.
How to apply
To apply for this position, please access the IIJ Career recruitment page, and click on "この職種に応募する (Apply for this position)" at the bottom of the page. Enter your personal information and submit a cover letter, CV, and additional documents.