About Woven By Toyota
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.

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TEAM
Creating high-quality automated driving systems or advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) is both challenging and urgent.

To achieve this, it is crucial to meticulously design software architecture, development processes, environments, and testing methodologies.

Our team has two main objectives:

• Establishing and improving software development standards to ensure engineers' compliance with automotive industry standards.
• Ensuring that development activities across teams are conducted properly, resulting in high-quality deliverables.

We believe that active engagement and effective communication, combined with expertise in international standards, process models, software technologies, and development management, are essential to drive these initiatives forward.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are seeking exceptional engineers to design and implement mechanisms that ensure the quality of our products. In this role, you will collaborate closely with diverse teams including system design, architecture, development, testing, project management, and other stakeholders across our group companies.

We value individuals who can work flexibly across teams to derive effective solutions, using their experience in software quality management. Building strong relationships with stakeholders is essential for success in this position.

You will report to the Team Lead of Global Process Engineering. This is a hybrid role, requiring at least three days per week in the office.

Responsibilities

• Develop company-wide software engineering standard
• Develop software engineering environment/toolchain
• Find issues with a wide view, extract essential issues, make a plan for solution. Visualize using graphical tools and implement process improvements based on data.
• Find the process that has to be improved from communication with engineers and suggest improved process and get agreement from engineers
• Build relationships with customers and suppliers to make a cooperative software engineering process

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience improving the system/software engineering process
• Experience of Japanese/US/Euro automotive OEM/supplier cultures
• 5 years of experience in the development of automotive software for mass production vehicles in a Tier 1 or Tier 2 company
• Experience developing engineering manuals/templates
• Experience conducting system/software requirement analysis, static code analysis,
• Experience building the process supporting tool across the toolchain and establishing it efficiently
• High level is fine, but knowledge to converse with machine learning engineers(e.g. Concepts used in supervised learning. Difference between verification & test data, what is annotation, etc.)
• Fluency in English and Japanese language

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Important Points
・All interviews will be arranged via Google Meet, unless otherwise stated.

・The same job descriptions are available in both English and Japanese; therefore, we kindly ask that you apply to only one version.

・We kindly request that you submit your resume in English, if possible. However, Japanese resumes are also acceptable. Please note that, depending on the English proficiency requirements of the role, we may request an English version of your resume later in the process.

What We Offer
・Competitive Salary - Based on experience

・Work Hours - Flexible working time

・Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated)

・Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated)

・Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company

・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)

Our Commitment
・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.