Senior Engineering Manager, AI Tooling

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

The AI Tooling team provides AI agent infrastructure that accelerates software development and safe, secure deployment to cloud, mobile devices, and vehicles. Our mission is to make software development more productive and efficient.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

You are an engineering manager experienced in delivering complex projects and have first hand experience where and how to provide accelerators that improve engineering productivity. You are focused on customer value and obsessive about working to understand the actual problems engineers are trying to solve. You get agreement from your team, help share software design discussions, and lead delivery of features. You define metrics to track adoption and usage of what you deliver and work tirelessly to enhance value over time. You define strategic goals for the team ensuring features are aligned, minimizing throw away work and refactoring. You understand industry-leading developer productivity engineering technologies and trends charting a vision for the team that inspires and motivates.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Define and lead the vision for use of AI technologies in Cloud & AI products

• Manage the AI Tooling engineering team, working with product management to break down high-level problems into implementation plans that can then be delivered

• Delivery ownership: Manage timelines, resources and budgets to ensure successful feature delivery

• Ensure organizational health through goal setting, progress monitoring, and promoting growth and training

• Manage technical debt to achieve long term sustainable velocity through architectural consistency and reuse

• Occasionally contribute to the development of the product to keep current with the technologies, product architecture and challenges of the team members

• Identify and address technical challenges and roadblocks

• Improve engineering excellence across the team. Encourage best practices for maintainable code, including automated testing, continuous integration, code style conformity, and code reviews.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
• B.S., M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

• 7+ years of professional software development with 3+ years of experience managing a technical team

• Experience with CI/CD tools, test automation, build tools development, IaC, cloud infrastructure

• Experience with agentic-based development

• Experience building applications powered by LLMs

NICE TO HAVES:
• Experience building B2B/B2E/B2C SaaS applications

• Ability to communicate in Japanese

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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.