About the Role
We are seeking a Lead Engineer to drive the multi-year roadmap, architecture, and technical strategy for World Understanding software components. This role focuses on accelerating the adoption of data-driven and deep learning methodologies to enhance autonomous driving capabilities, safety, and performance through advanced ML system design.
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical vision and multi-year strategy for World Understanding software including perception, mapping, and fusion.
- Lead project execution, define engineering processes, and mitigate technical risks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and ensure seamless system integration.
- Develop state-of-the-art models for various sensor configurations.
- Increase speed and cost-efficiency of component and system-level model iteration.
- Incorporate data-driven approaches to improve system performance and safety.
- Maintain functional architecture design and lead technical design reviews.
- Drive organizational metrics regarding performance, safety, and quality.
- Maintain external presence through papers, patents, and presentations.
- Partner with other Lead Engineers to solve high-impact cross-functional issues.
- Mentor and support engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Design reusable software components for integrated systems.
- Uphold software practices including simulation, CI, code review, and HIL/in-vehicle testing.
- Build validation strategies to resolve complex interactions and evaluate design tradeoffs.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience with machine learning applications or applied science.
- Deep expertise in ML algorithms, frameworks, and data-driven methods.
- Experience with supervised/unsupervised learning, multi-modality, multi-task training, and temporal/sequential modeling.
- Experience deploying ML models at scale.
- Strong R&D potential in algorithm design and large-scale complex systems architecture.
- Experience with requirements-driven development.
- Experience with code quality and system safety processes for production code.
- Practical understanding of real-time system development, performance issues, and testing modalities.
- Ability to lead in a globally distributed team.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Skills
- Machine Learning
- C++
- Python
- Deep Learning Frameworks
- System Architecture
- Data-driven Validation
- Temporal/Sequential Modeling
- Multi-modality Learning
- Real-time System Development
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, Aerospace Engineering, or similar
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary based on experience
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- 20 days paid holiday per year
- 6 days sick leave per year
- Japanese Social Insurance
- Housing allowance
- Retirement benefits
- Rental car support
- In-house training programs
About the Company
- Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s transformation into a mobility company.
- Focuses on AD/ADAS, Arene software platform, Woven City, and Cloud & AI.
- Mission is to challenge the state of mobility through human-centric innovation.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
