Fixed Term Positions
Job Announcement

Fixed term positions available at NICT:

Job Title	Weekly Working hours	Description
Fixed Term Researcher	Full time or more than 28hours	Ph.D holders or those equivalent (soon-to-be doctors can also apply)
Short-Term Researcher	Less than 28 hours
Research Assistant	Within 22 hours and 30 minutes	Persons who are enrolled in a graduate school, university or college of technology (4th year and above of the main course, or advanced course) and engage in research support work under the instructions of the institute.
Fixed Term Research Engineer	Full time or more than 28 hours	The positions require advanced knowledge and skill in science and technology for research and development
Short-Term Research Engineer	Less than 28 hours
Fixed Term Administrative Specialist	Full time or more than 28hours	The positions provide administrative/technical support for ongoing research, etc.

 
 

1. Reception of application documents (by post or online application)
2. Document screening
3. Face-to-face, telephone, or video interview (with those who passed the document screening)
4. Job offer and proposal of working conditions
5. Agreement on working conditions
6. Employment

*Please note that NICT will not bear the travel expenses for interviews.

*A monthly salary is paid to employees who work more than 4 days a week (more than 28 hours), and a daily or hourly wage system is applied to the others.
*The amount of salary shall be determined considering the applicant's work experience, etc. Please be noted that the basic salary is compliant with the government employees’ wages, which may be updated from time to time with consent from NICT's labor union.
*Dependent Allowances, Commuting Allowances, and Housing Allowances shall be granted to employees who work more than 4 days a week and meet the payment requirements. (Commuting Allowances will be granted to Research Assistants regardless of the working days)

From the hiring date to March 31, 2026.
Depending on positions, the expiration date of employment may arrive before March 31, 2026.
For details, please refer to each job announcement.
(The scheduled date of employment is October 1, 2025.)
*The first month of employment will be considered as a training period.

Saturdays, Sundays, National Holidays, and year-end and New-Year holidays (December 29-January 3)

• A flextime labor system is applied to Fixed Term Researchers and Fixed Term Research Engineers working 37.5 hours per week. (Applies to Fixed Term Administrative Specialists working 37.5 per week as well)

• A staggered commuting system is applied to Fixed Term Administrative Specialist working 7.5 hours per day.
• An annual paid leave will be permitted to Fixed Term employees in accordance with the regulations.

Researcher	A resume (CV) in a prescribed form(PDF file) (WORD file)　 A list of publication (journal articles, verbal presentations, intellectual property right and so on) A research proposal for the subject (free form) Reference letter(s) should be: written by people NOT involved in NICT, the date of creation, with recommender’s seal or signature, addressed to “President of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology”. The photocopy(ies) of reference letter(s) is (are) possible.
Research Engineer	A resume (CV) in a prescribed form(PDF file) (WORD file)　 Employment History (free form) ＊You may be required to submit additional documents for selection.
Research Assistant	A resume (CV) in a prescribed form(PDF file) (WORD file)　 Reference letter(s) should be: written the date of creation, with recommender’s seal or signature, addressed to “President of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology”.  The photocopy(ies) of reference letter(s) is (are) possible.Or research achievements such as presentations at academic conferences you need.

＊Student applicants must submit a written consent from your supervisor at the time of the interview to confirm that the job you are applying to will not affect your studies.

【Submit by post】
You may send your application documents by post to the address specified below.

• Please put the Subject Number and the year and month of the job announcement (e.g., "2025, April announcement") on the envelope in red ink.
• Submissions via email or fax will not be accepted.
• Unrelated research proposals will not be accepted.
• If you wish to apply for multiple positions, please prepare the required documents for each job. (e.g., 2 sets of documents will be required for 2 different job applications). In addition, please indicate the order of high to low priority in the Remarks column.
• Please note that we will not accept any changes in the order of preference of applicants after the application documents have been submitted.

　　[Postal Address]
　　Personnel Affairs Group, Personnel Affairs Office, General Affairs Department,
      National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT),
      4-2-1 Nukui-kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan

【Online Application】

You may also send your application documents through the Online Application Page below.

• You will be asked to enter a valid email address in order to receive the link to proceed.
• Please give yourself enough time before the due date as the server may be busy and connectivity errors may occur as the deadline approaches.
• Applications with insufficient/incomplete documents cannot be accepted.
• If you wish to apply for multiple positions, please prepare the required documents for each job. (e.g., 2 sets of documents will be required for 2 different job applications). In addition, please indicate the order of high to low priority in the Remarks column.
• Please note that we will not accept any changes in the order of preference of applicants after the application documents have been submitted.

[4PM (JST), Thursday 17 July 2025] is the application deadline for jobs starting on October 1st, 2025.  Applications will be closed when a suitable candidate has been selected.

The application documents will be handled with appropriate care and will only be used for recruitment purposes. The documents will not be returned to the applicants and will be shredded immediately after the selection process.

Fixed Term Researcher	Short-Term Researcher
Fixed Term Research Engineer	Short-Term Research Engineer	Research Assistant

*Positions that are on a five-day weekly basis are full-time positions. The working hours are 37.5 hours per week.

*Job announcements may be taken down due to certain reasons.

*The vacant positions will be available until they are filled.

Fixed Term Researcher

date	Subject NO.	Department/Group	Work content
11/1 closed on May.22	2025R-3	Radio Research Institute / Radio Propagation Research Center, Remote Sensing Laboratory	Research and development on data utilization such as satellite-borne cloud and/or precipitation radar
11/1 closed on Apr.17	2025R-5	Beyond 5G Research and Development Promotion Unit / Terahertz Technology Research Center, Terahertz Laboratory	Integrated terahertz devices
11/1  in the process of selection	2025R-8	Network Research Institute / Network Architecture Laboratory	R&D on AI and network virtualization integration for advanced networking
11/1 closed on Jun.23	2025R-9	Network Research Institute / Network Architecture Laboratory	R&D on blockchain/DLT and distributed networking
11/1 closed on Apr.11	2025R-10	Network Research Institute / Resilient ICT Research Center, Sustainable ICT Systems Laboratory	Resilient ICT Technologies
11/1 closed on Jun.23	2025R-12	Network Research Institute / Photonic ICT Research Center, Optical Access Technology Laboratory	Research and development on ultra high-speed optical to electrical signal convertion and it application for access network
11/1 closed on Jun.23	2025R-13	Network Research Institute / Photonic ICT Research Center, Optical Access Technology Laboratory	Research and development on the transmission media-independent and harmonized seamless access network technology
11/1 closed on May.22	2025R-14	Cybersecurity Research Institute / National Cyber Training Center, Cyber Training Laboratory	Research on Human Resource Development and Research for Cybersecurity
11/1	2025R-17	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Kobe Frontier Research Center, Bio-ICT Laboratory	Understanding and Regulating Cellular Information Systems Using a Constitutive Approach
11/1	2025R-18	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Kobe Frontier Research Center, DUV ICT Device Laboratory	Study on fabrication and characterization of semiconductor optical devices
11/1	2025R-19	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Kobe Frontier Research Center, DUV ICT Device Laboratory	Study on group Ⅲ nitride semiconductors　for novel photonic devices
11/1 closed on Jun.20	2025R-20	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Kobe Frontier Research Center, Nano-scale Functional Assembly ICT Laboratory	Research and development on optical and high-frequency nano-hybrid devices
11/1 closed on Mar.26	2025R-24	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Koganei Frontier Research Center, Terahertz ICT Device Laboratory and Beyond 5G Research and Development Promotion Unit Terahertz Technology Research Center, Terahertz Laboratory	R&D on terahertz- and millimeter-wave wireless technology
11/1 closed on May.22	2025R-25	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Koganei Frontier Research Center, Terahertz ICT Device Laboratory	R&D of terahertz- and millimeter-wave device measurement technology
11/1 closed on May.22	2025R-26	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Koganei Frontier Research Center, Quantum ICT Laboratory	Research and development of noise-tolerant quantum node technology using superconducting quantum circuits
11/1 closed on Jun.23	2025R-27	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Koganei Frontier Research Center, Quantum ICT Laboratory	Basic research and development of novel quantum communications
11/1	2025R-28	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Koganei Frontier Research Center, Quantum ICT Laboratory	Research and development of quantum optical communication network technology
11/1 closed on Jun.23	2025R-29	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Koganei Frontier Research Center, Quantum ICT Laboratory	Experiments in quantum communication by optics
11/1 closed on Jun.23	2025R-30	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Koganei Frontier Research Center, Quantum ICT Laboratory	Research on quantum communication
11/1	2025R-31	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Koganei Frontier Research Center, Quantum ICT Laboratory	Research and development on ion traps for fault-tolerant quantum computing
11/1 closed on Jun.22	2025R-33	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Koganei Frontier Research Center, Green ICT Device Laboratory	Research and development on gallium oxide devices (device processing)
11/1 closed on May.7	2025R-36	Network Research Institute / Wireless Networks Research Center, Space Communication Systems Laboratory	Research on Communication System Technologies in Non-Terrestrial Networks toward B5G/6G
11/1 closed on Jun.23	2025R-38	Network Research Institute / Photonic ICT Research Center, Photonic Network Laboratory	Research on huge-capacity massive-channel optical fiber transmission technologies and related digital signal processing technology
11/1 closed on Jun.23	2025R-39	Network Research Institute / Photonic ICT Research Center, Photonic Network Laboratory	Research on high-speed and flexible optical network system technologies
11/1 updated on Nov.19	2025R-41	Network Research Institute / Wireless Networks Research Center, Wireless Systems Laboratory	R&D on PHY, MAC, and higher layers for wireless network management, customization, and reenforcement technologies
11/1	2025R-43	Cybersecurity Research Institute / Cybersecurity Laboratory	Research on AI for Cybersecurity
11/1	2025R-44	Cybersecurity Research Institute / Cybersecurity Laboratory	Research on Cyber Threat Intelligence
11/1	2025R-45	Cybersecurity Research Institute / Cybersecurity Laboratory	Research on Hardware Security
11/1 closed on May.22	2025R-46	Cybersecurity Research Institute / Cybersecurity Laboratory	Research on Cyberattack-attribution Technology
11/1	2025R-47	Cybersecurity Research Institute / Cybersecurity Laboratory	Research on Data-driven Cybersecurity Technology
11/1	2025R-48	Cybersecurity Research Institute / Cybersecurity Laboratory	Research on Emerging Cybersecurity
11/1 updated on Apr.4	2025R-49	Cybersecurity Research Institute / Cybersecurity Laboratory	Research on Usable Security
11/1	2025R-52	Cybersecurity Research Institute / Cybersecurity Laboratory	Research on Security for AI
11/1 closed on May.2	2025R-56	Universal Communication Research Institute / Big Data Integration Research Center	Research on fundamental technologies for smart data analysis
11/1	2025R-60	Quantum ICT Collaboration Center	Research and Development on Field Demonstration of Quantum Entanglement for Quantum Internet
11/1	2025R-61	Quantum ICT Collaboration Center	Research on quantum key distribution network and satellite quantum key distribution
11/1 closed on May.22	2025R-62	Quantum ICT Collaboration Center	Research on next generation quantum key distribution, quantum key distribution network, and their applications
11/1   closed on May.22	2025R-64	Radio Research Institute / Electromagnetic Standards Research Center, Space-Time Standards Laboratory	Development of positioning technology using wireless two-way interferometry (Wi-Wi)
11/1 closed on May.19	2025R-65	Radio Research Institute / Electromagnetic Standards Research Center, Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory	Research on measurement and estimation techniques for the EMF environment and calculation of inductive quantities in the human body
11/1 closed on Jun.23	2025R-67	Radio Research Institute / Electromagnetic Standards Research Center, Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory	Research on estimation of radio frequency exposure estimates and conformity assessment methods for human exposure to new wireless communication technologies
11/1 closed on May.23	2025R-68	Radio Research Institute / Electromagnetic Standards Research Center, Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory	A Study on Exposure Assessment Methods and Compliance Assessment Methods for Diversified Radio Use
11/1 closed on May.23	2025R-69	Radio Research Institute / Electromagnetic Standards Research Center, Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory	A　Study on Improving The Accuracy of Electromagnetic and Thermal Simulations for Human Exposure Assessment
11/1 closed on Mar.28	2025R-73	Radio Research Institute / Radio Propagation Research Center, Space Environment Laboratory	Development of space weather forecast system based on ionosphere research
11/1 updated on Mar.31	2025R-74	Beyond 5G Research and Development Promotion Unit / Social-ICT System Laboratory	Building a testbed and an experimental Research & Development of the next generation high-speed wireless system combined with time-space synchronization technique, AI, or distributed devices management technique for active autonomous mobilites society in Beyond5G era
11/1 updated  on Jun.17	2025R-75	Open Innovation Promotion Headquarters, Social Innovation Unit / ICT Testbed Research and Development Promotion Center, ICT Testbed Research, Development and Operations Laboratory	Research and Development on a Large-Scale Network Testbed Integrating Simulators, Emulators, and Real Systems
11/1	2025R-82	Cybersecurity Research Institute / National Cyber Observation Center, Cyber Observation Operation Office	Research and Development on Promoting Cybersecurity Measures for IoT Devices
11/1 closed on May.22	2025R-85	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Function Analysis and Imaging Laboratory	Research and development of brain image measurement and analysis technology using ultra-high field MRI
11/1	2025R-86	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Function Analysis and Imaging Laboratory	Advanced research and development on state-of-the-art magnetoencephalographic technology
11/1	2025R-87	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Function Analysis and Imaging Laboratory	Research on advanced technology of neuroimaging
11/1	2025R-88	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Function Analysis and Imaging Laboratory	Research on highly advanced technology of neuroimaging
11/1	2025R-92	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Networks and Communication Laboratory	Study of Neural Mechanisms for Processing Temporal and Spatial Information
11/1	2025R-93	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Networks and Communication Laboratory	Neuroimaging and psychophysics studies on visual perception and their applications
11/1	2025R-96	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Neural Information Engineering Laboratory	Research on avatar control technology using brain information
11/1	2025R-98	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Neural Information Engineering Laboratory	Constructing a computaianol model for human decisino making.
11/1 updated on Apr.17	2025R-99	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Neural Information Engineering Laboratory	Cognitive and computational brain mechanisms of category learning and semantic concept representation, memory formation, and cognitive control
11/1 updated on jul.23	2025R-102	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Networks and Communication Laboratory	Development of next generation BMI devices and decoder
11/1 closed on May.14	2025R-105	Network Research Institute / Wireless Networks Research Center, Space Communication Systems Laboratory	Research on network systems and utilization of non-terrestrial networks toward Beyond 5G/6G
11/1 updated on jul.23	2025R-107	Cybersecurity Research Institute / Center for Research on AI Security and Technology Evolution	R&D on AI security
11/1 closed on Mar.14	2025R-108	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Kobe Frontier Research Center, Superconductive ICT Device Laboratory	Development of superconducting photon detector
12/23 closed on May.7	2025R-113	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Neural Information Engineering Laboratory	Elucidation of the neural bases of human creativity and emergence
2/13 closed on Apr.1	2025R-114	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Networks and Communication Laboratory	Investigation of space perception in blind individuals
3/11	2025R-117	Universal Communication Research Institute / Advanced Speech Translation Research and Development Promotion Center, Advanced Translation Technology Laboratory	Research and Development of Large-Scale Language Models for Integrating Multimodal Data
4/17 closed on Jun.4	2025R-119	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Networks and Communication Laboratory	Research on space perception and motor control in blind individuals
4/17	2025R-120	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Networks and Communication Laboratory	Elucidation of brain dynamics in human motor learning
5/22  in the process of selection	2025R-122	Universal Communication Research Institute / Advanced Speech Translation Research and Development Promotion Center, Advanced Translation Technology Laboratory	Research and Development of Multilingual Translation and Multilingual LLM Evaluation Data
5/22	2025R-123	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Function Analysis and Imaging Laboratory	Research and development on state-of-the-art magnetoencephalographic technology
6/23	2025R-126	Beyond 5G Research and Development Promotion Unit / Terahertz Technology Research Center, Terahertz Laboratory	Development of laboratory measurement database for THz passive remote-sensing of surface bodies.
6/23	2025R-127	Network Research Institute / Network Architecture Laboratory	R&D on advanced networking architecture
6/23	2025R-128	Network Research Institute / Photonic ICT Research Center, Photonic Network Laboratory	Research on high-capacity and flexible optical network system technologies
6/23	2025R-129	Network Research Institute / Wireless Networks Research Center, Space Communication Systems Laboratory	Research on broadband mobile communication by using Non-Terrestrial Networks
6/23	2025R-130	Network Research Institute / Photonic ICT Research Center, Optical Access Technology Laboratory	Research and development on fundamental technology for optical access network.

Short-Term Researcher

date	Subject NO.	Department/Group	Work content
5/22	2025R-121	Advanced ICT Research Institute / Center for Information and Neural Networks, Brain Networks and Communication Laboratory	Research and Development for Improving Human Locomotion

Fixed Term Research Engineer

date	Subject NO.	Department/Group	Work content
3/11 closed (temporarily)	2025T-100	Universal Communication Research Institute / Advanced Speech Translation Research and Development Promotion Center, Advanced Translation Technology Laboratory	Development and Maintenance of High-Performance Multilingual Neural Machine Translation Systems

Short-Term Research Engineer

date	Subject NO.	Department/Group	Work content

Research Assistant

date	Subject NO.	Department/Group	Work content
11/1 closed on Jun.4	2025R-11	Network Research Institute / Resilient ICT Research Center, Sustainable ICT Systems Laboratory	Research and development on AI/ML-based radio access technologies applicable into severe radio propagation environment
11/1 closed on Apr.17	2025R-58	Beyond 5G Research and Development Promotion Unit / Terahertz Technology Research Center, Terahertz Laboratory	Research assistant of terahertz-wave wireless communication experiment
11/1 closed on Jun.25	2025R-59	Quantum ICT Collaboration Center	Research on fundamental aspects and applications of quantum information and communications technologies