About the Role
The Info Mobility Car team develops driver support features that provide driving suggestions and voice prompts to drivers. We aim to enable safer and more comfortable driving experiences by leveraging in-cabin and external camera images and various vehicle sensor data, with driver “busyness” and state estimation algorithms as our core technology. Working closely with software development teams and simulation-based evaluation teams, we continuously drive performance improvements of these features.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and enhance ML-based driver workload (busyness) estimation algorithms that take vehicle CAN signals, various in-vehicle sensors, and driver operation logs as time-series inputs
- Build and operate training data infrastructure and evaluation pipelines, including label and annotation policy design, data preprocessing, and feature engineering
- Investigate and improve logics that combine CAN-based workload indicators with other workload measures, such as surrounding-vehicle information and image/vision-based indicators
- Design interfaces and specifications to feed workload estimation results into driving suggestion and voice prompt logic, and continuously improve overall feature performance
- Collaborate with software engineers, test engineers, UX members, and other stakeholders to align on requirements and evaluation metrics, and to organize and share experiment results and technical learnings
- Participate, as required by projects and business needs, in planning and conducting evaluations using simulators and on-road test vehicles (including business trips), and drive improvement cycles based on real-world findings
Requirements
- 3+ years of practical experience in software or algorithm development primarily using vehicle CAN signals, in-vehicle sensors, and driver operation logs as time-series data
- Practical experience developing algorithms using machine learning, deep learning, and/or statistical modeling
- Development experience in Python using major ML/DL frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Ability to independently drive the end-to-end ML development process from data preprocessing and feature design through training and evaluation
- Communication skills to work with multiple stakeholders and clearly explain technical topics and evaluation results
- Willingness to travel for business purposes as required by project or business needs
- Business level Japanese proficiency and conversational level English
Skills
- ML-based algorithms
- Driver workload estimation
- Vehicle CAN signals
- In-vehicle sensors
- Driver operation logs
- Time-series data
- Driver state estimation
- Vehicle dynamics
- Sensor fusion
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
- Statistical modeling
- Python
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Feature engineering
- ML model deployment
- Edge/embedded optimization
- Inference pipeline construction
- Model operations
- Simulators (e.g., Unity)
- Signal processing
Location
- Susono office
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of practical experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical/electronic engineering, control engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary - Based on experience
Benefits
- Flexible working time
- 20 days paid holiday per year (prorated)
- 6 days sick leave per year (prorated)
- Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other company-defined holidays
- Japanese Social Insurance (Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance)
- Housing Allowance
- Retirement Benefits
- Rental Cars Support
- In-house Training Program (software study/language study)
About the Company
- Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company.
- Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.
- Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation.
- Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.
- Toyota is redefining what it means to move. We're challenging the current state of mobility by enhancing the movement of people, goods, information and energy.
- Centered around three core concepts - A Living Laboratory™, Human-Centered, and Ever Evolving City™ - Woven City serves as a test course for mobility to fulfill our purpose of well-being for all.
- We do this by bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility to co-create, develop and refine innovative products and services.
- This cross-section of social infrastructure, mobility, and people provides a unique opportunity for inventors, residents and visitors to interact seamlessly with new technologies throughout daily life in an environment that emulates a real city.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
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