Software Engineer, Robotics System Development

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
Toyota is redefining what it means to move. We're challenging the current state of mobility by enhancing the movement of people, goods, information and energy. Centered around three core concepts - A Living Laboratory™, Human-Centered, and Ever Evolving City™ - Woven City serves as a test course for mobility to fulfill our purpose of well-being for all.

We do this by bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility to co-create, develop and refine innovative products and services. This cross-section of social infrastructure, mobility, and people provides a unique opportunity for inventors, residents and visitors to interact seamlessly with new technologies throughout daily life in an environment that emulates a real city.

The robotics team develops tools and services to support inventors operating in the Woven City. To do that, we act as inventors and strive to create innovative robotic applications utilizing the latest technologies from the robotics literature to solve real world problems. Our inventions need not be polished products, but they should be exciting and ambitious so as to inspire other inventors and to spark new collaborations between them. We take care to package the tools and technologies that we develop for our inventions and we offer these to other inventors to accelerate their development. We’re a democratic and open-minded team and we value engineers with an ambitious vision for the future of robotics - as well as the technical skills to make it a reality.

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

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are looking for talented engineers to help us support the robots we plan to deploy to the Woven City. We expect them to work as full-stack engineers with knowledge across backend and frontend. They must be able to plan and prioritize tasks not only by pursuing software engineering perspectives, but also by considering the actual demands, impacts, and deadlines. They must have the ability to learn various fields of software engineering even if some of those fields are unfamiliar to them.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop web applications for monitoring and controlling robots operating in the Woven City
• Write pipelines to collect robot sensor data and efficiently transmit it to users and cloud backends
• Help establish simple, consistent APIs for a variety of robot platforms
• Suggest and compare various technical choices to achieve and validate software concepts as quickly as possible.
• Collaborate other engineers to ensure that best software development practices are followed across the teams through code reviews, design discussions and casual conversations.
• Work autonomously as a member of the scrum team and help maximize team productivity.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
• Education Background - MS in computer science, or related fields or equivalent professional experience
• Experience shipping web applications end-to-end - from backend APIs to the web UI - with a record of production impact
• Experience coding in Python and C++
• 5+ years of software development experience in a team, following agile methodologies, coding rules, participating in code reviews, and using CI systems and repository management tools
• Deep understanding of one or more of the following topics: parallel computing, real time computing, interprocess communication, networking, databases or cloud computing
• Proficiency in business level English.
• Work experience closely related to R&D - ability to learn domain knowledge from academic literature and to make real-world applications using experimental technology.

NICE TO HAVES:
• Experience in developing robot applications and system software
• Experience with ROS 1/2 or other robotics frameworks
• Proficiency in conversational Japanese
• Various knowledge of API design, software design, and software architecture
• Certifications by AWS or other cloud vendors, or equivalent professional experience
• Experience with Docker or similar container technologies
• Experience in developing applications with Kubernetes

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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.