About the Role
Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s transformation into a mobility company by challenging the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation. Our work centers on AD/ADAS, Arene, Woven City, and Cloud & AI, with business-critical functions empowering these teams to execute toward a bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.
Responsibilities
- Utilize state of the art technology to design, develop, and deploy the optimization engine controlling BEV charging/discharging to minimize household energy costs
- Build, train, and evaluate machine learning / optimization models (e.g., forecasting energy prices, demand, and vehicle usage; formulating and solving the control/optimization problem)
- Work with other engineers and the product manager, understand the needs of the complex environment and align development accordingly
- Identify issues, propose solutions, and solve problems, from a technical standpoint, by leading communication with internal & external stakeholders
- Work with integration teams to ensure the technologies you create, work usefully and seamlessly
- Mentor team members and promote engineering best practices through documentation, collaboration, and code quality
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent area
- 7+ years of relevant work experience in machine learning / optimization / data science
- Strong programming skills particularly in Python & Go and ML frameworks
- Experience taking ML models from prototype to production
- Knowledge of one or more cloud compute platforms, such as AWS
- Strong business communication skills with stakeholders
- Strong background in areas relevant to designing core, well tested building blocks that others can rely on
- Ability to think, design and code for the user’s perspective
- An infectious passion for solving complex problems, learning new techniques and technologies
- Business-level proficiency in Japanese / English
- Experience with container technologies like Docker and container management systems like Kubernetes
- Experience with build systems, continuous integration and/or continuous deployment (CI/CD)
- Experience working with GPU compute (for ML components)
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Optimization
- Data Science
- Python
- Go
- ML frameworks
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- GPU compute
Location
- Woven City
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years of relevant work experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent area
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.
- 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.
- This team is responsible for planning services for BEV owners.
- They are composed of experts in electric power, software, UX, and new business development.
- They collaborate with the in-house power operations team in Woven City and other related departments within Toyota Motor Corporation to support Toyota’s transition to “Mobility Company” by creating new electricity services.
- You will report to a product delivery manager within the Energy Product team.
- For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/
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.
