✨ About Woven by Toyota ✨
Woven by Toyota is contributing to Toyota's once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by our history of continuous invention "for the sake of others," our mission is to expand the definition of mobility, enhance its societal contributions, and challenge the status quo of mobility with human-centric innovation.
We operate around four pillars: AD/ADAS (Automated Driving/Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems) technology, Arene (a vehicle software production platform for Software Defined Vehicles), Woven City (a mobility test course), and Cloud & AI (digital infrastructure supporting collaboration). Additionally, essential business functions support these teams' implementation, working together to achieve a "zero-accident society" and "mass production of happiness."
✨ About the Team ✨
Arene's mission is to empower Toyota and its partners to deliver next-generation vehicles by leveraging hardware-agnostic software, enabling the addition of new features at any time.
The Execution Excellence team is dedicated to embedding quality from the early stages of product development and continuously improving development processes.
We believe that by valuing and thoroughly applying the principles of the Toyota Production System, we can achieve the development of safe, high-quality, and efficient software.
The Arene Quality Management team is responsible for defining and implementing Quality Management System (QMS) standards and controls within our work processes to ensure the Arene team delivers the highest quality.
✨ Who We're Looking For ✨
We are seeking professionals eager to work in an environment that prioritizes safety and quality in software development. You will collaborate closely with development teams, understand current development processes, and support their optimization and standardization, making them applicable across Arene.
We welcome individuals who are eager to learn, regardless of academic or professional background, and possess excellent communication and analytical skills!
This position reports to the Team Lead of the Quality team, which is part of the Arene Execution Excellence team. The work style is hybrid, including three days per week in the office.
✨ Responsibilities ✨
You are expected to work flexibly beyond the scope of the following responsibilities and contribute to achieving our mission:
- Develop and maintain Arene's best practices (Quality Management System, Software Quality, Engineering Processes including Security and Functional Safety).
- Collaborate with teams such as Engineering, Security, Functional Safety (FuSa), and Compliance, as well as Toyota stakeholders, to create standards, procedures, guidelines, and work instructions.
- Support Arene teams in introducing and implementing new procedures.
- Effectively track and manage the implementation status of the QMS.
- Operate internal QMS audit strategies to evaluate Arene's operations for compliance with regulations.
- Achieve ISO9001 compliance within Arene.
- Propose company-wide communication campaigns to promote "quality awareness" throughout the Arene organization.
Required Qualifications
- Understanding of modern software development methodologies and frameworks (Agile, Scrum, ASPICE, etc.).
- Expertise in Quality Management Systems such as ISO9001 and IATF.
- Experience in process auditing within organization-wide internal audit programs.
- Experience in the automotive industry and understanding of its regulatory framework.
- Sense of responsibility, growth mindset, and progress-oriented attitude.
- Ability to abstract complex processes and coordinate roles, responsibilities, necessary resources, and information flow with stakeholders.
- Project management skills.
- Experience working in multicultural teams and tolerance for different cultures.
- Strong commitment to quality.
- Excellent communication skills in English.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in quality planning or quality assurance.
- Communication skills in Japanese.
- Knowledge of the Toyota Production System (TPS).
- Experience in problem-solving and conflict resolution.
- Hands-on experience in software development.
✨ Important Notes ✨
- All interviews are typically conducted via Google Meet.
- Current job postings are available in both English and Japanese. Please apply to only one version.
- We kindly request that you submit an English resume whenever possible. If you submit a Japanese resume for any reason, we may request an English resume during the selection process depending on the position.
✨ Compensation and Benefits ✨
- Salary commensurate with industry standards based on experience.
- Working Hours: Flexible working hours.
- Annual Paid Leave: 20 days per year (number of days in the first year varies depending on the month of joining).
- Sick Leave: 6 days per year (number of days in the first year varies depending on the month of joining).
- Holidays: Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and other days designated by the company.
- Social Insurance: Health insurance, employee pension insurance, workers' accident compensation insurance, employment insurance, nursing care insurance.
- Housing allowance.
- Retirement benefit system.
- Rental car support.
- In-house training programs (software learning, language learning).
✨ Our Commitment ✨
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
- Personal information collected will be used solely for recruitment and onboarding purposes. Please refer to our Applicant Privacy Notice for details.