Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Behavior
Woven by Toyota3 months ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop advanced machine learning models for autonomous-vehicle behavior planning using deep learning, simulation, and large-scale data analysis.
- Deploy scalable and efficient ML models on the autonomous vehicle platform.
- Develop components across the ML lifecycle, including data strategy, training, evaluation, validation, deployment, and inference optimization.
- Apply scientific-method and critical-thinking approaches to develop state-of-the-art deep learning solutions.
- Collaborate with Perception, Motion Planning, Simulation, Infrastructure, and Tooling teams on unified autonomous-driving solutions.
- Integrate modern technologies while meeting rigorous safety standards and cost-efficiency goals.
Requirements
- Master’s or PhD in machine learning, computer science, robotics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 3+ years of experience with Python, a major deep learning framework, and software engineering best practices.
- Ability to write C++ for integration with an autonomous vehicle platform.
- 3+ years of experience with deep learning approaches including pretraining, distillation, supervised or unsupervised learning, multi-task learning, or deep reinforcement learning.
- 3+ years of experience across machine learning workflows such as data sampling and curation, preprocessing, model training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, and inference optimization.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts clearly and precisely.
- Preferred experience includes top-tier research publications, large-scale ML deployment, LLMs, VLMs, VLAs, computer vision, robot motion planning, temporal or sequential modeling, and self-driving systems.
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience.
- Flexible working hours.
- 20 days of paid holiday per year, prorated.
- 6 days of sick leave per year, prorated.
- Weekends, Japanese national holidays, and other company-designated holidays off.
- Japanese social insurance, including health insurance, pension, workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, and long-term care insurance.
- Housing allowance, retirement benefits, rental car support, and in-house software and language training.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring presence at the Nihonbashi, Japan office three days per week.
- Interviews are conducted via Google Meet unless otherwise stated.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota exists to accelerate Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation from a car company into a mobility company. Rooted in a legacy of reinvention, we carry forward a singular founding principle: to innovate for the benefit of others. Today, we are driving this transformation from two vantage points: redefining how vehicles are built, experienced, and connected to the world to realize a true software-defined vehicle, and reimagining how people, goods, information, and energy move and interact in society to empower individuals from all walks of life. Through these two lenses, we combine bold innovation with real-world execution, bridging the gap between present and future to help Toyota evolve its business and its role in society.