Make your voices resonate with empathy
Our voices convey our thoughts, emotions, and past experiences.
Many times, our voices have united us and helped us build the world we have today.
Aggressive voices could divide the people and cause discomfort in our societies.
Voices connect and disconnect us.
Give the power of our voice the embrace of empathy.
Empathy is respect and consideration for the individuality and backgrounds of others.
It brings out our hidden strengths and helps build our future together.
By using empathy as the foundation of our society,
We make our voices resonate through the world.
This is our mission.
We invite you to our journey on discovering the potential of communication.
Our society is comprised of the different interactions we have everyday, which include our emotions, thoughts, and pasts. Even at this moment, the interactions we have each day builds our future.
Communication is a part of who we are.
Therefore, we need to value communication in our everyday lives.
Our goal is to respect the way in which each every individual communicates by creating an atmosphere where anybody can freely voice their thoughts and opinions.
This is Empath's culture.
Data Scientist
As a data scientist, you will have the opportunity to develop new emotion data research methodology and tools. We want to develop innovative solutions using emotion recognition technology to confront challenges in mental health, call center management, robotics and various other fields. This position is ideal for someone who is a great researcher who wants to analyze relationships between human behavior and emotional states in order to create new healthcare solutions and business opportunities.
Your responsibilities:
Apply machine-learning and deep-learning techniques to developing vocal emotion recognition technology using Empath dataset of voices
Develop new methods and models for machine-learning algorithms to distinguish emotions from vocal inputs
Research and develop new emotion recognition technologies
Prototype new forms of emotion sensing
Requirements:
An engaging and committed team member who enjoys collaboration
M.S. or PhD. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics with specialization in natural language processing, affective computing, deep-learning andor machine-learning
2+ years experience developing machine-learning models at scale from inception to business impact
Deep understanding of modern machine-learning techniques and their mathematical foundations, such as classification, recommendation systems and natural language processing
Highly experienced with programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Perl or Python
Preferred, but not required:
Japanese speaking, reading, and writing ability
Benefits:
Work with great people with diverse job experiences
Competitive salary
Paid time-off
Medical insurance
11 days paid vacation each year
Software Programmer
As a software programmer, you will work with the Software Development team at Empath to create apps that run efficiently on Android and iOS platforms. In addition, you will plan, develop, and operate our web services. You have the opportunity to develop innovative emotion recognition apps with your creativity and imagination using our Empath engine.
Your responsibilities:
Participate in all stages of software development - from early brainstorming to coding and bug-fixing
Planning and developing user-centric UX/UI
Write excellent, performant code and associated tests
Trouble-shooting
Requirements:
An engaging and committed team member who enjoys collaboration
Solid knowledge of UNIX OS and RDBMS (Linux、MySQL)
Experience with object-oriented languages (Ruby, Python, Java)
Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining native iOS and Android applications
Preferred, but not required:
Japanese speaking, reading, and writing ability
M.S. or PhD. in Computer Science or a related field
Experience with multivariate analysis
Experience with sound-signal processing
Benefits:
Work with great people with diverse job experiences
Competitive salary
Paid time-off
Medical insurance
11 days paid vacation each year
We are looking for new members in order to help us make the world resonate with empathy.
Our mission is to seek new ways to communicate and build a better bridge between humans and technology that take our individual differences into consideration. We do this to understand the world we live in, who we are, and how we can build our future.
"Empathy" will be the key to our journey.
We use "Empathy" to gain a better understanding of ourselves, and find new ways to better ourselves.
Join us on our journey to discover how we can better our lives through "Empathy".
