Woven by Toyota Careers

Woven by Toyota is the mobility technology subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Our mission is to deliver safe, intelligent, human-centered mobility for all. Through our Arene mobility software platform, safety-first automated driving technology and Toyota Woven City — our test course for advanced mobility — we’re bringing greater freedom, safety and happiness to people and society. 

Our unique global culture weaves modern Silicon Valley innovation and time-tested Japanese quality craftsmanship. We leverage these complementary strengths to amplify the capabilities of drivers, foster happiness, and elevate well-being.

TEAM

The Toyota Woven City is a fully connected ecosystem powered by hydrogen fuel cells to be built at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan. It is envisioned as a ‘living laboratory’ and ‘ever evolving,’ incorporating various types of cutting edge technologies. At the same time, it is also ‘human-centric,’ that is, it is expected to keep people safe and comfortable. 

Woven City’s R&D team will develop innovative products and services using technologies developed by Toyota Motor Corporation. 

Our mission is to: 

1.  Develop services and products for Woven City

2.  Expand capabilities through long-term R&D

Toyota Motor Corporation has been involved in a variety of technological development in the  robotics, energy, and automotive domains for a long time. Our team will leverage Toyota’s hardware expertise in these fields to create new value by developing software on top of this. 

Our team will develop innovative services that are essential to the city. As a first party developer, we will also build a foundation upon which third party partners can participate. Therefore, we are responsible for not just the applications but also the core software and capabilities.

Our team consists of many highly experienced members with international work experience. We strive to be open minded as we create a new culture with members from various backgrounds and nationalities. Our global team works closely with the Toyota Motor Corporation and the Toyota Research Institute in North America to develop our technologies and products.

We are seeking talented people to join us as we take on new challenges to create new products and services for the Toyota Woven City.

For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a talented Machine Learning Engineer/Data Scientist, who can analyze various data such as human demographic, psychographic, vital, photos, essays, etc.

Our day-to-day tasks include technical R&D, proof-of-concept (POC), system design, infrastructure design, system integration for model inference, building service pipelines, etc. Skills in modern software development and solid experiences in developing real-time systems are essential.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Research, develop, and demonstrate human simulation AI PoC
• Collect data and develop machine learning product/services, (build, verify, and deploy models)
• Build and optimize ML pipeline from data curation to automatic model serving

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong experience of machine learning and the framework (e.g. tensorflow, pytorch, Computer vision libraries, NLP libraries, etc.)
• Experience in system architecture and infrastructure design on Cloud i.e. AWS services, EKS, etc.
• Business level skills of English and Japanese

• Higher motivation for catching up with cutting edge technologies
• Quick implementation skills from the cutting edge research papers
• Skills of data design, data curation, from multimodal big data (table data, sentence, photos, voice).
• 3+ years of experience of service development using machine learning
• Experience in natural language, vision, speech, or behavior data processing.

If you are located outside of Japan we will set up an interview over Google Hangout Meet or Skype.

WHAT WE OFFER

・Competitive Salary - Based on experience

・Work Hours - Flexible working time with NO core-hours

・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 Security - all applicable (Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance)

・In-house Training Program (software study/language study)

By submitting your application you agree to the following terms: https://woven.toyota/en/applicant-privacy-notice

Our Commitment

・We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.

・We pledge that any information we receive from you will be used ONLY for the purpose of hiring assessment.

Woven by Toyota is the mobility technology subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Our mission is to deliver safe, intelligent, human-centered mobility for all. Through our Arene mobility software platform, safety-first automated driving technology and Toyota Woven City — our test course for advanced mobility — we’re bringing greater freedom, safety and happiness to people and society. 

Our unique global culture weaves modern Silicon Valley innovation and time-tested Japanese quality craftsmanship. We leverage these complementary strengths to amplify the capabilities of drivers, foster happiness, and elevate well-being.

TEAM

The R&D team in Woven City Management is developing innovative products and services using technologies developed by Toyota Motor Corporation.

Our missions:

1. Develop services and products for Woven City

2. Expand capabilities through long-term R&D

Toyota Motor Corporation has been involved in a variety of technological development such as robotics and energy technologies, as well as automobile technologies. Toyota is already particularly strong in hardware and we will create additional value by developing new software on top of it.

As a first-party developer, we are not only developing innovative services essential to the city, but also a foundation upon which third-party partners can participate in using our applications, core basic software, and capabilities.

Our team consists of many mid-career members with international work experience. We strive to be open-minded as we cultivate a new culture. We work closely with Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Research Institute in North America, and Toyota Motor Europe to develop technologies and products. Our team consists of many members who are from foreign countries. We provide a global work environment.

For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are seeking for talented Machine Learning engineers and MLOps Engineers to join us to take on challenges in creating new AI products and services on a large-scale streaming image data platform on the Cloud.

Our day-to-day tasks include technical R&D, proof-of-conept (POC), system design, infrastructure design, system integration for model inference, building service pipelines, etc. Skills in modern software development and solid experiences in developing real-time systems are essential.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Research, develop, and demonstrate POC for building AI services and platforms.
• Work throughout machine learning products/services integration pipeline i.e. model inference, service integration, service testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Build and optimize MLOps pipeline from data curation to automatic model deployment.Improve system architecture and infrastructure on Cloud for high-performance and scalable platform.
• Develop user interface or visualize the perception results (object, person, pose, etc.) into 2D/3D space.

• Experience in Machine Learning products/services development – familiar with Machine Learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, Python programming, Computer Vision libraries, model serving, service testing, model deployment, service monitoring, and maintenance.
• Experience in system architecture and infrastructure design on Cloud i.e. AWS services, EKS, EC2, AWS Storage, Network, etc.
• Experience in building Machine Learning pipeline on KubeFlow, Management Services such as Amazon SageMaker, etc.
• Experience in developing large-scale service with streaming image data.
• Experience in micro-service design and implementation on a large-scale platform.

• Experience in MLOps tools: Kubetctl, aws client, Lens, etc.
• CI/CD experience using GITHub Actions

If you are currently located outside of Japan we will set up an interview over Google Hangout Meet or Skype.

WHAT WE OFFER

・Competitive Salary - Based on experience

・Work Hours - Flexible working time with NO core-hours

・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 Security - all applicable (Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance)

・In-house Training Program (software study/language study)

By submitting your application you agree to the following terms: https://woven.toyota/en/applicant-privacy-notice

Our Commitment

・We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.

・We pledge that any information we receive from you will be used ONLY for the purpose of hiring assessment.