Avatar robotics platform with telepresence and remote operation capabilities
avatarin operates a deployed fleet of robotic avatars with a backend stack anchored in Python, C++, Kubernetes, and AWS, complemented by NVIDIA hardware acceleration (Jetson, CUDA, TensorRT) for on-device AI. The company is actively scaling toward thousands of robot deployments while building speech recognition and speaker diarization pipelines—a pattern suggesting shift from initial telepresence proof-of-concept toward production speech-driven avatar control. Engineering-heavy hiring (6 of 10 roles) with explicit C++ Tech Lead recruitment indicates maturation of the core robotics and real-time systems layer.
Notable leadership hires: C++ Tech Lead
avatarin, founded in 2020 as a spin-out of ANA Holdings Inc., builds a platform for remote avatar operation and telepresence. The company operates a global network of robotic avatars accessible via a dedicated application for search, reservation, and live connection. Core work spans avatar backend systems, robot fleet management, speech processing pipelines, and SDK development. The organization is based in Tokyo and currently hiring across Japan, with 11–50 employees focused on scaling deployment infrastructure and expanding avatar capabilities through AI-driven features like automatic speech recognition and speaker identification.
Core: Kubernetes, Python, C++, Docker, AWS. AI/ML: NVIDIA Jetson, CUDA, TensorRT, DeepStream, Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK. Speech: Whisper, NVIDIA NeMo, Triton. Dev tools: Git, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Java with Spring Boot.
Deploying robotic avatars to thousands of units globally, building speech processing pipelines (ASR, diarization, audio cleaning), enhancing SDK capabilities, and developing AI-enabled features for the NewMe robot platform.
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