About Woven by Toyota 🚗
Woven by Toyota, part of the Toyota Group, is revolutionizing mobility through human-centric innovation. By developing advanced technologies like AD/ADAS, the Arene OS automotive software platform, the Toyota Woven City test course, and the Woven Capital growth fund, we're pioneering the movement of people, goods, information, and energy to create a future of enhanced safety, connectivity, and well-being for all.
Team 👥
Toyota is redefining 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 bring together a diverse community of people passionate about 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.
For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/
We are researching and developing new remote services that apply our proprietary XR technology. Our mission is to develop products reflecting the results of this research with our partner company and provide them to Woven City and others.
We are trying to develop a full-stack product from our research by bringing together engineers from various fields.
Who Are We Looking For? 🔍
We are seeking passionate engineers eager to commercialize and popularize cutting-edge technologies under research.
You will design and implement an application that analyzes and understands the context of conversations, the situation of users, and the progress of meetings in remote communication, fostering a sense of unity among participants.
You will report to the lead of the sub-function. The work style is hybrid (remote and office).
Responsibilities 🛠️
- Lead research, development, and demonstration of usability in remote communication and seek innovative solutions.
- Develop technology to automatically estimate the speaker's opinion and stance using multimodal information available during remote communication.
- Develop technology that recognizes and categorizes agreement and disagreement, interest, and concern with statements and visualizes the progress of meetings and points of conflict.
- Develop verification applications using the above and verify their effectiveness in the actual user environment.
- Communicate research plans, status, and other aspects to project stakeholders.
- Collect data and develop machine learning product/services (build, verify, and deploy models).
- Propose patents or write research papers and give academic presentations.
- Follow research papers and the latest technological trends and introduce state-of-the-art technologies in projects.
- Train team members in the area of expertise and encourage knowledge sharing.
Minimum Qualifications 🎓
- Master's or PhD degree in computer science, data science, psychology, cognitive science, or a related field.
- Master's or doctoral degrees in fields other than the above and relevant work experience will also be considered.
- 3+ years of working experience in scene analysis and situation understanding using multimodal information.
- Experience estimating opinions from the conversational context, estimating participants' aims and intentions, and analyzing the progress of the meeting.
- Development experience with libraries for machine learning/deep learning.
- Proficiency in business-level Japanese and commitment to improving English skills.
Nice to Haves ✨
- Quick implementation skills from the latest research papers.
- Experience in developing conference support and facilitation tools.
- Experience of being accepted to peer-reviewed conferences or papers, etc.
- Experience in product development using machine learning (i.e., recommendation, emotional estimation, AI-assistant bot, etc.).
- Development experience with vision, audio, and natural language.
- Conversation analysis, behavior recognition and analysis, sentiment and emotion analysis, context modeling, discourse analysis, etc.
- Expertise in the field of psychology or cognitive science.
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.
