Fujitsu Research India, FRIPL
Technology Ventures & Commercialization Associate
Duration : 12 months
Role & responsibilities
About the Role Fujitsu Research India is seeking a technically strong associate to help translate advanced research technologies into real-world startup and market opportunities. The role combines technology understanding, use-case discovery, startup fit assessment, validation support, and commercialization thinking. It is suited to an M.Tech/MS candidate who is curious about both how technology works and how it can create business value.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand selected Fujitsu research technologies, their differentiation, maturity, limitations, and potential applications.
- Identify industry problems, use cases, startups, and partners where these technologies could create differentiated value.
- Assess startuptechnology fit, including technical compatibility, integration feasibility, data or infrastructure needs, and adoption readiness.
- Support PoCs, sandbox experiments, and technical validation by defining success criteria, dependencies, risks, and evidence required for progression.
- Work with researchers and incubation teams to shape commercialization pathways such as licensing, joint development, cocreation, startup-led adoption, or strategic partnerships.
- Prepare concise technology briefs, evaluation notes, opportunity maps, validation summaries, and management-ready recommendations.
Ideal Candidate
- M.Tech / MS / equivalent postgraduate degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, Electronics, Robotics, Quantum, Cybersecurity, Computational Science, or a related field.
- Strong technical reasoning with the ability to understand unfamiliar technologies quickly.
- Interest in startups, deeptech, productization, entrepreneurship, and technology commercialization.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to business and external stakeholders.
- Exposure to research projects, prototypes, startup projects, hackathons, publications, patents, or innovation programs is an advantage.
- Structured, self-driven, analytical, and comfortable working on exploratory problems.
- Expected Outcomes
- Technology-to-use-case and technology-to-market opportunity maps.
- Startuptechnology fit assessments and shortlisted collaboration opportunities.
- PoC / validation plans and evidence-based outcome summaries.
- Commercialization-readiness recommendations for selected research technologies.