Robot Personality Designer
For social robots, the time is now: they are no longer science fiction. All over the world - in homes, schools, hospitals, airports, shops, offices, banks, hotels, and more - social robots are being deployed today to help people lead better lives, support employees, delight customers, and add value to businesses. Humans are entering a new era where talking to machines, and interacting with them in our most natural ways (as if they were a person) is becoming 'normal'. But it's still early days in this revolution. The rules are still being written, and the road ahead is wide open. At Furhat Robotics, we’ve built an unparalleled integrated software and hardware platform that allows us to do things with our robot that no other robot can do. And that’s where you come in.
We are looking for a robot personality designer to join our Interactions team. You will design the personality and interaction between social robots and human users for applications built on top of our social robotics platform. As part of the Interactions team, you will play an important role in designing how these new line of applications are built, combining the latest findings from conversational, graphical and virtual/mixed reality applications.
By joining Furhat, you will accompany us on a journey to create world-leading conversational robots that interact with us the way we interact with each other, and be in the driver’s seat of developing a new genre of applications between human and machines. You will be part of a very ambitious team of scientists, entrepreneurs and engineers building the most advanced social robotics platform on the market. Furthermore, you will be an early employee at one of the most promising and high impact startups, backed by some of Europe’s most prominent investors.
As a Robot Application Designer, you will:
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Design social robot applications, and contribute to the design-process itself, on the Furhat platform
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Creatively explore the design of new kinds of social robot use-cases, combining learnings from other disciplines and raising the bar on what is possible.
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Contribute to building a common, reusable base of robot application building blocks such as NLU entities, dialog flows, personas, and emotional expressions
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Support business developers with technical and design advisory in dialogues with existing and potential customers
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Stay on top of the latest findings and research pushing the boundary of social robotics
Skills & Requirements
To be an ideal candidate, you must have:
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Experience of building conversational applications such as chat bots, voice-controlled applications or social robotics applications
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Developed user-experience design-thinking
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Experience in building end-user facing applications
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Experience of hands-on, rigorous user-testing
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Good and pedagogical communicator in speech and text
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Academic: Minimum a bachelor in a relevant field or equivalent experience
It would be great if you also:
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Software development experience
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Computer linguistics background
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Have experience working with natural language understanding (NLU)
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Have human-robot interaction (HRI) experience
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Have game design experience
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Speak multiple languages
Note: We will currently only be able to accept candidates that are eligible to work in Sweden without a visa sponsorship. This means you must have EU citizenship or a Swedish work permit.
Lastly, we would like you to include a cover letter with your CV, telling us why you are interested in social robotics in general, and why you think you would be a good fit for Furhat.
Great Place to Work
Flexible hours
Located at top technical university, KTH
Choose your own tech gear
Free beverages, snacks, team ginger shots
Personal health insurance & life insurance
Monthly workout grants
Paid vacation & parental leave
Competitive option package
Monday team breakfasts
Team building. Game nights, AWs, cook-offs etc.
Easily accessible for commuters
Work with the coolest technology around
About the company
We are an artificial intelligence and social robotics startup with the vision to make interaction with technology truly human. Founded by four PhDs in social robotics at KTH, we are an ambitious, small team of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs backed by prominent investors. Our product is the most expressive and customizable social robot on the market, powered by a state-of-the-art multi-modal conversational platform and a developer suite used by 3rd party developers to build robot applications. We are now looking for high-achievers that share our passion, to join our ride.
Ludvig Linse | Hiring Manager
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