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About the Role
We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to lead program management for high-priority automotive engagements from our Tokyo hub. This role requires strong technical credibility, direct customer ownership, and the ability to establish structure in a fast-paced environment, operating across supplier engagements, OEM programs, and internal delivery teams.
Responsibilities
- Define milestones, own timelines and deliverables, and manage sprint and roadmap execution for software development teams through series production.
- Manage supplier relationships at Tier-1 and Tier-2 levels, holding partners accountable to schedule and quality commitments.
- Serve as the primary customer contact for Japanese OEMs, translating requirements into engineering work and providing structured updates.
- Coordinate across internal and external teams to align technical roadmaps, unblock dependencies, and support international roll-outs.
- Drive issues to closure by owning problem-solving and decision-making across teams and sites.
Requirements
- 5+ years in technical project management or engineering within the automotive industry, ideally with hands-on experience at an OEM or Tier-1 supplier.
- Proven supplier management experience, capable of holding Tier-1 and Tier-2 partners to schedule and quality commitments.
- Strong customer-facing presence, comfortable representing Applied Intuition independently with OEMs and executive stakeholders.
- Technical depth in embedded systems, middleware, or ADAS sufficient to assess feasibility and engage engineers credibly.
- Builder mindset: able to set up program structure from scratch with minimal existing scaffolding.
- Ability to operate independently across sites and time zones.
- Native in Japanese and fluent in English.
Skills
- Technical Project Management
- Engineering
- Automotive Industry
- Supplier Management
- Customer Facing
- Embedded Systems
- Middleware
- ADAS
- Program Management
- Series Production
- Japanese
- English
Location
- Tokyo
Work Type
- In-office
- Occasional remote work
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI, creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet.
- The company services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy.
- Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions.
- Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices globally.
Equal Opportunity
- Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor.
- Abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a).
- Prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.
- Prohibits discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
- Requires affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.
- Abides by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A), relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws.