Social Scientist

応募 友人に送信

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(Note: Japanese candidates are very welcome! This job description is in English because English is the main language of research today, and also of our department, even though Japanese is the main language at Cypremos overall.)

We are a fast-growing startup founded in November 2024 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Astemo, a Japanese Tier 1 automotive supplier. We specialize in software and cloud services, and our goal is to support global automotive manufacturers’ transition to Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV) and to enable new mobility services.

Our core offerings are digital development environments that use cloud technologies such as digital twins and artificial intelligence. As cyber technologies like IoV, SDV, cloud and AI evolve, we aim to redefine how OEMs and suppliers work and how end users experience mobility, ultimately offering a kind of freedom no one has imagined before.

We are a small research team within this startup, with two missions: (A) understanding and developing new technologies that support and extend future business, and (B) giving our development teams technological guidance, based on a fundamental understanding of each topic and of the technologies available now and expected in the future. Conventional thinking says that more complex technology needs larger research teams. We challenge that: we believe a small team of highly autonomous researchers, close to industry needs but allowed high flexibility, amplified by AI and open collaboration, can explore more freely, move faster, challenge conventional beliefs while staying true to ethical convictions and see further than a large organization.

In this position, you will be our team’s link to the real world. Through fieldwork, interviews, observation and experiments with people, you will uncover needs and opportunities that no one has noticed yet. You will lead human studies from design to rollout. Your insights will become the foundation for our AI research on social behavior, collaboration and decision-making. This position is open to early-career researchers, and we welcome new graduates.

If you want to explore ideas that expand human potential, question them boldly, refine or overturn them when necessary, and keep evolving them; if you want to do this in a small team, on your own initiative, with external researchers you choose yourself; and if you also share our belief in the ethical application of technology, we would love to have you on board.

Required Skills & Experience

Background in a social science or a related field, such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, cognitive science, behavioral economics, design research or transportation studies, through a degree or equivalent experience. New graduates are welcome.
Basic knowledge of research methods, both qualitative (e.g. interviews, observation) and quantitative (e.g. surveys, experiments, statistics).
Strong thinking and writing skills: the ability to structure complex ideas and communicate them clearly in writing.
Ability to communicate with people from diverse backgrounds in Japanese and English. Japanese is needed for fieldwork in Japan, and English for research.

Preferred Skills & Experience

Experience doing fieldwork or human studies, for example in a thesis project or an internship.
Experience with statistical analysis or data analysis tools (e.g. R, Python, SPSS).
Experience living or working in different cultures, and sensitivity to cultural differences in behavior and values.
Interest in mobility, technology and society, or human–AI interaction.
Experience communicating through art, music, performance, writing or other expressive media.
Experience with diverse modes of mobility, such as cars, bicycles, public transport, winter sports or wheelchairs.

Ideal Candidate Profile

Curious about people, and enjoys going out into the field to find out what is really happening.
Empathetic and a good listener, while staying rigorous and critical in analysis.
Comfortable with ambiguity, and able to turn open questions into clear research plans.
Proactive and willing to take on responsibility early, while learning quickly from feedback.
Able to work independently while valuing teamwork across disciplines.
Driven to improve the world through fundamental, meaningful change.

Do fieldwork, for example observation, interviews, ethnography and surveys, to understand how people move, decide, collaborate and live with technology.
Identify unknown or unmet needs and turn them into concrete research questions, hypotheses and opportunities.
Design and lead human experiments, for example in driving simulators, online studies or field trials, from planning and ethics review to recruiting participants, running the experiments and analyzing the data.
Work closely with AI researchers to turn qualitative and quantitative findings into models of social behavior and decision-making.
Support the rollout of research results, for example in pilot studies with partners, and evaluate how they work in real life.
Build relationships with users, communities, universities and external partners.
Publish research results as academic papers and patents, and share insights inside the company in a clear and engaging way.

We aim to measure our output by meaningful publications and patents, so what matters most to us is your ability to think deeply, question assumptions, and communicate ideas clearly in writing. A degree in a related field (for example computer science, AI, human factors, cognitive science, psychology or robotics), published papers or filed patents are welcome. But if you can show strong thinking and writing skills in other ways, such as essays, blog posts, technical reports, open-source work or independent projects, we would be just as happy to hear from you.

We want our research to be not only profitable but also meaningful, thoughtful, well executed and beneficial to society.

With your CV, please send us a short description of your past research or projects, along with samples of your work. Examples include publications, Master’s or doctoral theses, patents, technical reports, essays, blog posts or open-source projects. You can attach PDFs or share links. We will use them only to evaluate your application. They help us speed up screening.

As fellow researchers, we would also love to know what motivates your work and what kind of world you dream of and are working to make real.

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コアタイム無しのフルフレックス、もしくは裁量労働制適用
Full flex-time system with no core hours, or a discretionary work system

社会保険完備、通勤交通費実費支給、給与改定年1回、試用期間3か月（条件変更なし）
Social insurance provided, commuting expenses reimbursed at actual cost, annual salary review, 3-month probationary period (no change in terms)

土日休日
年間休日121日
カレンダーは会社カレンダーに基づく
有給休暇有り

Saturdays and Sundays are holidays
Annual holidays total 121 days
The calendar follows the company calendar
Paid leave is granted

ハイブリッド (出社＋在宅)

国 / 地域

日本

都道府県

東京都

勤務地（住所）

渋谷区

桜丘町1番地1号

渋谷サクラステージSHIBUYAタワー37F

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応募 友人に送信

Astemo CypremosはSDVにおけるソフトウェア・クラウドサービス企業です。SDVプラットフォームにおいて、In-Car(車載システム)を超えたOut-Car領域でデジタルエンジニアリングの変革を牽引し、クラウド技術と通信技術を活用する次世代モビリティソリューションを通じSDV時代に求められる価値を提供するサプライヤーとして柔軟で幅広いシステム実現をめざします。

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