AI Product Engineer, People Empowerment AI
Woven by Toyota2 days ago
Tokyo, JapanMid Level
Responsibilities
- Clarify user and stakeholder problems and translate them into implementable and testable requirements and development tasks.
- Design and implement features combining web applications, backend APIs, databases, and LLMs.
- Improve usability, interaction flows, response times, error handling, and shared platform usage.
- Establish workflows for collecting, processing, and using Japanese documents and conversational data while improving data and AI output quality.
- Use user feedback and usage logs to evaluate AI output usefulness and guide ongoing development.
- Prepare services for release through testing, reviews, monitoring, incident response, and post-release improvements.
- Communicate issues and dependencies with technical leads and specialist teams and travel to Susono a few times per month as business needs require.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional experience designing, implementing, and testing software with languages such as Python or TypeScript.
- Experience developing software with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Antigravity.
- Experience developing and delivering web applications or backend services and improving them operationally.
- Experience building applications using APIs and databases and inspecting and transforming data with SQL or similar tools.
- Experience implementing LLM-based applications or prototypes and evaluating and improving output errors and variability.
- Experience defining requirements with users or cross-functional stakeholders and owning implementation through validation.
- Native-level Japanese proficiency and conversational-level English proficiency.
- Preferred experience includes voice interactions, real-time processing, conversational agents, RAG, Databricks, data-platform workflows, data quality and provenance, AI evaluation datasets, and taking prototypes into practical use.
Benefits
- Flexible working time.
- 20 days of paid holiday per year, prorated.
- 6 days of sick leave per year, prorated.
- Saturdays, Sundays, Japanese national holidays, and other company-defined 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.
- Competitive salary based on experience.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ApplicationsProduct Engineering
About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota develops software for automated driving, advanced driver assistance, and software-defined vehicles, primarily for Toyota and its partners. Its products include Arene (a vehicle software platform), AD/ADAS technologies, and the Woven City test course, supported by cloud and AI infrastructure. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, it operates as a Toyota Motor Corporation subsidiary focused on vehicle software and mobility systems.