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 focuses on AD/ADAS, software development platforms, mobility test courses, and the digital infrastructure powering our foundation, aiming for a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being.
Responsibilities
- Define the team's short-term and long-term technical direction while collaborating on broader, cross-functional strategic initiatives.
- Initiate and influence cross-functional teams towards common data development goals and unified solutions.
- Support the data roadmap for the program and connect the team’s technical roadmap by focusing on actionable data strategy approaches.
- Lead initiative execution by defining efficient processes, mitigating technical risks, and anticipating long-term strategic improvements.
- Enable and develop each team member through coaching and leading by example.
- Collaborate and provide technical guidance in the design, development, deployment, optimization, and evaluation of state-of-the-art data algorithms, data efficiency and pipelines.
- Drive a culture of rigorous statistical evaluation to measure, validate and implement evaluation frameworks.
- Drive organizational metrics towards performance, safety, and quality.
- Work in a high-velocity environment, employ agile development practices, and collaborate in a globally distributed department.
Requirements
- Masters or PhD degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related quantitative fields, or equivalent industry experience.
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a focus on technical leadership, team development, and delivering high-impact projects in the automotive industry.
- 8+ years of experience covering data science, data sampling and curation, machine learning workflows, pre-processing, model training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, and inference optimization.
- Experience with rigorous data science for applications leveraging large scale data sources and highly efficient pipelines.
- Experience working with large-scale robotics datasets, temporal data and/or sequential modeling.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate concepts clearly and precisely.
- Experience writing software using Python for data science (numpy, scipy, scikit, pandas), databases, and cloud platform services (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Skills
- Data Science
- Data Sampling
- Data Curation
- Machine Learning Workflows
- Pre-processing
- Model Training
- Ablation Studies
- Evaluation
- Deployment
- Inference Optimization
- Large Scale Data Sources
- Highly Efficient Pipelines
- Robotics Datasets
- Temporal Data
- Sequential Modeling
- Python
- Numpy
- Scipy
- Scikit
- Pandas
- Databases
- Cloud Platform Services
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Data Architect
- Senior Manager
- ML Models at Scale
- Self-Driving Products
- Self-Driving Challenges
- Production Data Pipelines
- Safety & Quality Processes
- Safety-Critical Applications
- Peta Byte Scale Database Analysis
- Perception-Related Technologies
- Camera Image Processing
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Data Annotation Rules for Machine Learning
- Infrastructure Management
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Behavior Prediction
- Imitation Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- End-to-End Models
- Japanese Language Skills
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams
- 8+ years of experience covering data science, data sampling and curation, machine learning workflows, pre-processing, model training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, and inference optimization
Education Level
- Masters or PhD degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related quantitative fields, or equivalent industry experience
Benefits
- Excellent health, wellness, dental and vision coverage
- A rewarding pension
- Flexible vacation policy
- Family planning and care benefits
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.
- At Woven by Toyota, we tackle Autonomy challenges at the intersection of AI, Robotics, and Advanced Driving.
- We develop advanced Perception and Planning technologies, and their production software for multiple AD/ADAS systems.
- To deliver reliable data-driven technologies to millions of Toyota vehicles, we are solving complex real-world problems using large-scale data, machine learning, and state-of-the-art architectures for Perception, Prediction, and Motion Planning.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
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