Background:

A university venture having its office in the premise of Obihiro Univ. of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine in Hokkaido. The company invented a system, which consists of a very compact and light camera to take a picture of the cross-section of beef carcass, database that accumulates both domestic and overseas meat picture information and an AI based visual data processing system that automatically evaluates the grade of the quality of the meat by analyzing the pictures. Until now, human experts have been solely conducting this grading task, but now, this new system can save manpower and stabilize the evaluation results consistently.

As of 2022, around 80% of its revenue are from overseas through sales representatives in the United States, Australia, Germany, and Uruguay. In the U.S., more than 20 systems have been introduced, while the Australian meat quality rating organization has officially qualified this system. And, the company is receiving many inquiries from the world such as UK, Mexico, and Spain.

MIJ labo opened two job positions recently.

1.   Job openings 

(1)   Overseas marketing

(2)   System engineer

2.   Required skills and experience

l    Japanese language skill of N1 by JLPT and business level of English. Spanish and Germany are also welcomed.

l    For the marketing job, applicants are required to have majored in livestock science at undergraduate or graduate university.

Even if applicants do not have the required academic background, if family runs beef commercial farm, it covers this experience requirement.

l      For the system engineering job, applicants are required to have abundant knowledge of IT, AI and software analysis and development. It is most welcome if an applicant has an experience of developing AI using Python.