Woven by Toyota 🚗
Woven by Toyota, the mobility technology subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, is on a mission to deliver safe, intelligent, human-centered mobility for all. Through our Arene mobility software platform, safety-first automated driving technology, and Toyota Woven City, our test course for advanced mobility, we're bringing greater freedom, safety, and happiness to people and society.
Our Culture 🌐
Our unique global culture weaves modern Silicon Valley innovation and time-tested Japanese quality craftsmanship. We leverage these complementary strengths to amplify the capabilities of drivers, foster happiness, and elevate well-being.
Team 👥
At Woven by Toyota, we tackle a diverse range of challenges, from solving optimization problems in 3D geometric computer vision to minimizing latency on hardware accelerators, designing novel neural network architectures, and advancing the state-of-the-art of machine learning (ML) for perception, prediction, and motion planning. We're looking for doers and creative problem solvers to join us in improving mobility for everyone with self-driving technology. You'll collaborate daily with software and hardware engineers and researchers to tackle some of the most challenging problems in AI, robotics, and computer vision.
Who We're Looking For 🔍
The Perception team seeks an experienced Machine Learning engineer to develop a state-of-the-art perception system for autonomous driving. As a Machine Learning engineer, you'll design and develop new ML models for our online perception system, deploy them on our next-generation autonomous vehicle platform, and ultimately, to millions of Toyota production vehicles.
We recognize the unique capabilities each team member brings and encourage applicants to reach out even if they don't match all the characteristics described below.
Responsibilities 🛠️
- Perception ML model R&D: Prototype, validate, and iterate on existing and new model architectures.
- Own development of new ML models end-to-end: from data strategy, initial development, optimization, production platform validation, and fine-tuning based on metrics and on-road performance.
- Lead large, multi-person projects and significantly influence the overall Perception architecture and technical direction.
- Enable and help other engineers on the team to be more effective through coaching and leading by example: writing high-quality code, providing high-quality code and design document reviews, and delivering rigorous reports from ML experiments.
- Work in a high-velocity environment and employ agile development practices.
- Team player with a "get things done" mentality.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders in downstream customer teams to define interfaces and requirements for the Perception stack.
- Closely collaborate with Perception subteams to develop end-to-end solutions.
Experience 📚
- MS or higher degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent industry experience.
- 5+ years of experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch, Caffee, Tensorflow.
- Extensive experience with machine learning and classification.
- 5+ years of experience in machine learning workflows: data sampling and curation, pre-processing, model training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, inference optimization.
- Strong programming skills in Python or C++.
- Passionate about self-driving car technology and its potential for humanity.
- Experience in writing production-level code in a real-time operating system.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate concepts clearly and precisely.
Nice to Have ✨
- Hands-on experience building a perception stack for autonomous systems.
- Experience in runtime optimization for runtime-critical systems on Linux and UNIX-like real-time operating systems.
- Experience with CUDA or OpenCL.
- Experience with automotive-grade compute platforms.
- Experience building safety-critical software architectures.
Compensation 💰
For California: The base pay for this position ranges from 161,000to264,500 per year.
Your base salary is part of your total compensation. We offer a base salary, short-term and long-term incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package. The total compensation offered to an employee will depend on their skills, experience, qualifications, location, and level.
What We Offer 🎁
We're committed to creating a modern work environment that supports our employees and their loved ones. We offer a variety of programs to help you do your most meaningful work and shape the future of mobility.
- Excellent health, wellness, dental, and vision coverage
- Rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Family planning and care benefits
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.