About the Role
This is a founding engineer role focused on developing a new mobility product dedicated to safety and zero traffic accidents. You will design and build visual processing and matching components with strict latency and privacy constraints, utilizing Woven City as a test environment for validation and scaling.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the perception pipeline from initial design through deployment and operation
- Design and implement matching and ranking algorithms using spatial and temporal reasoning
- Design and implement privacy protection mechanisms including detection and redaction techniques
- Evaluate and integrate content filtering approaches to improve relevance through iterative experimentation
- Drive continuous improvement through real-world failure analysis and iteration
- Collaborate cross-functionally on architecture and integration
- Own observability metrics for processing performance, accuracy, and delivery latency
Requirements
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in image processing, computer vision, or related engineering fields
- Track record of building and operating image processing pipelines
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar
- Hands-on experience processing video and image data
- Background in privacy-preserving image processing
- Proven ability to optimize processing performance for latency-sensitive systems
- Experience applying ML frameworks to build and deploy image processing or detection systems
- Experience integrating with backend systems including REST APIs, message queues, or streaming data platforms
- Business level Japanese proficiency
- Conversational English proficiency
Skills
- Image processing
- Computer vision
- Python
- Go
- Privacy-preserving image processing
- Latency optimization
- ML frameworks
- REST APIs
- Message queues
- Streaming data platforms
Location
- Hybrid (Office and Remote)
- Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture (Woven City)
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary based on experience
Benefits
- Flexible working time
- 20 days paid holiday per year
- 6 days sick leave per year
- Japanese Social Insurance
- Housing allowance
- Retirement benefits
- Rental cars support
- In-house training program
About the Company
- Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s transformation into a mobility company through human-centric innovation.
- Core pillars include AD/ADAS, Arene software platform, Woven City, and Cloud & AI.
- Mission is to achieve a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
