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# Staff ML Platform Engineer, AD/ADAS at Woven by Toyota

- **Company:** Woven by Toyota
- **Location:** Tokyo, Japan
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/woven-by-toyota/e89b2d87-c2df-4704-b27d-dad75add9acf

## Job description

## 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 tackle Autonomy challenges at the intersection of AI, Robotics, and Advanced Driving. Our work involves a variety of challenges, such as analyzing petabytes of multimodal driving data, solving optimization problems, minimizing latency on hardware accelerators, deploying scalable and efficient machine learning (ML) training and evaluation pipelines, and designing novel neural network architectures to advance state-of-the-art ML for Perception, Prediction, and Motion Planning. We are looking for doers and creative problem solvers to join us in improving mobility for everyone with human-centered automated driving solutions for personal and commercial applications.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

The team is looking for a skilled Software Engineer or Machine Learning Engineer to join the Machine Learning Platform team, and work in close collaboration with and/or embedded in our ML teams to accelerate and scale up our overall ML engineering activities, enabling shipping Perception, Prediction and Planning ML models and our AD/ADAS stack to millions of Toyota customer vehicles.

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about self-driving car technology and its potential impact on humanity, and able to leverage cutting-edge technologies to solve real-world problems while also considering ML engineers’ productivity and cost efficiency. We are looking for individuals who exhibit a "giver" mindset, consistently seeking opportunities to assist their colleagues while maintaining a strong focus on delivering solutions to production.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design, build, maintain, optimize and support the ML Platform’s systems and tools for perception, prediction, and planner development, allowing numerous ML engineers to effectively & efficiently iterate on dataset curation, ML modeling, training, evaluation and deployment of ML models into our functionally safe AD/ADAS stack, shipped in millions of Toyota vehicles
- Develop user-friendly tooling, frameworks and libraries to support the overall ML engineering effort, from ML modeling, to tracking performance metrics and introspecting failure modes
- Build and maintain efficient dataset generation, cloud training and evaluation pipelines
- Develop and review code with other ML and ML Platform engineers to facilitate rapid incremental improvements
- Optimize the current processes, tooling and supporting infrastructure to accelerate the overall ML engineering effort, and contribute to the long term strategy for several of our systems and products
- Work in a high-velocity environment and employ agile development practices
- Work in a hybrid workspace, with the requirement to be present in our Nihonbashi (Japan) office three days per week
- Work cross functionally to align on the target architecture of our systems and optimize processes & systems globally
- Drive best engineering practices across the organisation

## MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

- BSc / BEng (MS / PhD nice-to-have) in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Robotics or related quantitative fields, or equivalent industry experience
- 10+ years of experience with data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and software engineering best practices
- 4+ years of experience with UNIX-based systems (Linux or similar), Python, and PyTorch/Tensorflow
- 4+ years of experience in the full MLOps cycle covering data cleansing, data sampling, data curation, pre-processing, efficient data loading, distributed training, testing, evaluation, deployment, inference optimization and deployment in the cloud and on edge compute platforms
- Experience with scaling ML training and fixing the typical issues found at large scale
- Experience with Docker and CI systems such as GitHub Actions
- Business-level proficiency in English, able to write technical documents (e.g. for software documentation)

## NICE TO HAVES

- 4+ years of experience with Apache Spark, Airflow, Flyte, Flink, Ray, or similar ML pipelines technologies
- 4+ years using modern systems programming languages (e.g., Rust and/or C++) and a modern build system (preferably Bazel), and systems-level debugging knowledge, in a professional environment
- Experience as a Software Architect or Senior Manager
- Experience with SIMD/SIMT parallelism, GPU programming, multithreading
- Experience with Terraform, AWS, Observability, and Kubernetes in production
- Experience with Google Big Query, Snowflake or AWS Redshift in production
- Experience in optimizing deep-learning models towards specific hardware targets
- Experience in self-driving, robotics, computer vision, or motion planning
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment, collaborating across teams and disciplines
- Business-level proficiency in Japanese

========================================================================= 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.

## About Woven by Toyota

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Woven by Toyota is a wholly owned Toyota subsidiary that develops software-driven mobility technologies, including an automotive software platform, automated driving systems, and the Woven City test course.
- **Entity Type**: Private (wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation)
- **Headquarters**: Tokyo, Japan (US offices in Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA; Ann Arbor, MI; Brooklyn, NY)
- **Founded**: April 2023 (predecessor company Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, Inc. was established in March 2018)
- **Founders**: Not applicable (subsidiary; the company was formed from Toyota’s internal R&D unit)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Automotive software, mobility technology, automated driving, cloud infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B primarily – automotive OEMs, Toyota Group companies, and mobility ecosystem partners
- **Mission**: “To challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation.”
- **Purpose**: Drive the future of movement and enhance well-being for all

## Products & Services
- **[Arene](https://woven.toyota/en/)**: A state-of-the-art software platform that unifies and accelerates automotive software development (SaaS/platform).
- **[Automated Driving](https://woven.toyota/en/)**: AI- and data-driven automated driving technologies designed to pursue zero traffic accidents (software/hardware).
- **[Woven City](https://woven.toyota/en/)**: A test course for mobility where Weavers and Inventors co-create new mobility products and services (physical testbed).
- **[Cloud & AI Infrastructure](https://woven.toyota/en/)**: Foundational infrastructure for cross-company collaboration, providing tools, resources, and workflows for internal and partner teams (internal platform).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (wholly owned subsidiary; not independently valued)
- **Key Metric**: ~2,500 employees (as of 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 100% owned by Toyota Motor Corporation; collaborates with Toyota Group companies and external mobility partners.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth from predecessor (TRI-AD) to ~2,500; expansion of Woven City and Arene platform; multiple US office locations (Palo Alto, Seattle, Ann Arbor, Brooklyn).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Toyota Group backing**: Access to decades of automotive craftsmanship, safety standards, and global manufacturing scale.
- **Human-centric innovation**: Focus on safety, quality, and responsible innovation as core differentiators.
- **Unique testbed**: Woven City provides a real-world environment to validate mobility technologies.
- **Cross-functional culture**: “Kakezan” (multiplication) – combining diverse strengths across global teams.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the Arene platform, advancing automated driving capabilities, and operationalizing Woven City as a co-creation hub.
- **Direction**: Transforming Toyota from an automaker into a mobility company; achieving zero traffic accidents and expanding the definition of mobility.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Guided by “The 7 Threads” values – Drive Change for Others, Start the Momentum, Embrace Kakezan, etc. Emphasis on trust, mutual respect, and thoughtful debate.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid options, no core hours, practices designed for global teams across time zones.
- **Notable perks**: Mobility support (relocation assistance, cross-cultural guidance), opportunities to collaborate with engineers across the Toyota Group, hands-on cross-functional teamwork.
- **Engineering culture**: Global by design (Japan, US, UK); open communication and shared ownership; focus on quality and speed.

## Sources
1. [woven.toyota – Careers](https://woven.toyota/en/careers/)
2. [woven.toyota – Company Profile](https://woven.toyota/en/company/profile/)
3. [woven.toyota – Homepage](https://woven.toyota/en/)
4. [woven.toyota – Company Overview](https://www.woven.toyota/en/company/)
5. [woven.toyota – Culture](https://woven.toyota/en/careers/culture/)

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