Lead Perception Engineer

Full-time

Woven by Toyota

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
At Woven by Toyota, we work on some of the most challenging problems in autonomy from 3D geometric computer vision and perception to prediction, motion planning, and safe deployment of ML systems in real vehicles. Our AD/ADAS organization develops production‑grade autonomy and active safety technologies that operate in complex, uncertain real‑world environments and ship at global scale.
You’ll collaborate daily with ML researchers, software engineers, robotics engineers, and hardware teams to design, build, and deploy perception and world‑understanding systems that directly influence how vehicles see, reason about, and interact with the world.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are seeking a Lead Engineer to report to the Global Head of World Understanding to drive the multi-year roadmap, architecture, metrics, and technical strategy for software components contributing to understanding around the vehicle. A system thinker with technical depth in machine learning approaches to complex systems. This engineer will accelerate the adoption of data-driven and deep learning methodologies, focusing on ML system design and verification, supervised/unsupervised learning, multi-modality, multi-tasks training, and temporal/sequential modeling. This role emphasizes faster and more cost-efficient model iteration, data-driven validation strategies, and unlocking new safety/performance capabilities through advanced ML.
The role also requires strong communication skills, an aptitude for mentoring tech leads, influencing and collaborating with diverse stakeholders, including TMC, in identifying deep technical challenges, developing solutions, and executing on the delivery of our autonomy mission.
Responsibilities
Driving the technical vision and multi-year strategy for World Understanding (including perception, mapping, fusion, on-board/off-board) software
Leading project execution, defining efficient engineering processes, and mitigating risks
Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Data, Behavior (Planner/Controller/HMI), Developer Ecosystem, and Product Delivery while influencing technical decisions across the organization to drive innovation, ensure seamless system integration, and improve overall engineering efficiency
Develop state-of-the-art models to deliver desired driving environments in various sensor configurations
Increase speed of the component- and system-level model iteration while maintaining cost efficiency
Incorporate data-driven approaches to improve system performance and unlock new capabilities for safety
Maintain the functional architecture design and lead review of technical designs
Drive organizational metrics towards performance, safety, and quality
Maintain external presence of the department through papers, patents, and presentations
Assess and mitigate risk to the technical program
Act in partnership with other Lead Engineers in AD/ADAS to solve high impact cross-functional issues
Mentor and support engineers, fostering growth through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals
Design reusable software components as part of an integrated system
Understand and fulfill the software practices that produce maintainable code, including simulation, continuous integration, code review, HIL testing, and in-vehicle testing
Build component and system level validation strategies that are leveraged to resolve complex interactions between components, increase performance, and evaluate design tradeoffs related to data-driven practices
Minimum Qualifications
10+ years of professional experience with machine learning applications or applied science
MS or PHD in Machine Learning, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, Aerospace Engineering, or similar
Deep expertise in ML algorithms, frameworks, data-driven methods, supervised/unsupervised learning, multi-modality, multi-tasks training, and temporal/sequential modeling, and deployment of ML models at scale
Strong R&D potential in algorithm design, data-driven approaches to safety, and large-scale, complex systems architecture, and requirements-driven development
Experience with utilizing deep learning frameworks to increase speed and ease of development
Experience with temporal data and/or sequential modeling
Experience with code quality and systems safety processes for production code delivery, with respect to data-driven methodologies and model validation
Strong, practical understanding of real-time system development, performance issues, testing modalities, and tradeoffs
Ability to write code in C++ and python
Ability to lead in globally distributed team
You are an excellent communicator, skilled collaborator, and principled colleague
NICE TO HAVES
Published research at top-tier conferences (NeurIPs, CVPR and similar)
Proven track record of deploying ML models at scale in self-driving or related fields
Experience with computer vision ( e.g.multi-view geometry, camera calibration, depth estimation, neural radiance fields, gaussian splatting, simultaneous localization and mapping)
Experience with Planner ML system design (e.g. including supervised/unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, diffusion policy)
Experience with robot motion planning (e.g., trajectory optimization, sampling-based planning, model predictive control)
Japanese language skills
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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.

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