About the Role
The AD/ADAS group is developing a scalable, data-driven approach to autonomous and assisted driving. The AV Performance Team develops strategies and executes testing globally for Toyota’s Personally Owned Vehicle (POV). This role is responsible for defining and executing test strategies that validate software interfaces, input/output behavior, state transitions, and interactions between components.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead software component-level test strategy
- Develop component and component group test cases
- Establish automated testing in CI/CD pipelines
- Improve requirements and testability
- Drive failure mode and edge-case validation
Requirements
- 5+ years of AD/ADAS software testing experience
- Strong software testing experience
- Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and automating tests for software components, APIs, or embedded software
- Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills, with experience interpreting logs, traces and system behavior to resolve software issues
- Programming skills for test automation
- Experience developing test scripts, test harnesses, or test tools using Python, C++, or similar programming languages
- Understanding of software interfaces and system behavior
- Ability to understand API specifications, data flows, state transitions, and sequence diagrams, and to design input/output-based tests and component interaction tests
- Ability to work independently across multiple teams, manage ambiguity, and drive alignment on testing scope and acceptance criteria with Product, Systems Engineering, and Development stakeholders
- Practical experience with automated testing, regression testing, and continuous integration environments using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
- Japanese and English reading, writing, and communication skills
Skills
- Python
- C++
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Automated testing
- Regression testing
- Continuous integration
- Software component testing
- API testing
- Embedded software testing
- Debugging
- Root cause analysis
- Test automation
- Requirements management
- Simulation
- SIL
- HIL
- Vehicle testing
- Perception
- Prediction
- Planning
- Control
- Sensor fusion
- Driver assistance features
- Machine learning model evaluation
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary - Based on experience
Benefits
- Flexible working time
- 20 days per year paid holiday (prorated)
- 6 days per year sick leave (prorated)
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
- Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. Please see our privacy notice for more details.
