TEAM
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Senior Lead the design and development of perception foundation models for autonomous vehicles, unifying diverse sensor data for scalable 3D scene understanding.
- Deploy scalable and efficient ML models on our autonomous vehicle platform.
- Integrate modern technologies with rigorous safety standards while maintaining cost efficiency.
- Significantly contribute to development of needed components for end-to-end ML training and deployment, from data strategy to optimization and validation.
- Be a champion of the scientific method and critical thinking in inventing state-of-the-art deep learning solutions
- Work in a high-velocity environment and employ agile development practices.
- Collaborate closely with teams such as Perception, Motion Planning, Simulation, Infrastructure, and Tooling to drive unified solutions.
- Work in a hybrid workspace, with the requirement to be present in our Nihonbashi (Japan), Palo Alto (California), or Ann Arbor (Michigan) offices three days per week.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics or related quantitative fields, or equivalent industry experience.
3+ years of experience with Python, any major deep learning framework (PyTorch preferred), and software engineering best practices
3+ years of experience with deep learning approaches such as supervised/unsupervised learning, transfer learning, multi-task learning, and/or deep reinforcement learning.
3+ years of experience covering machine learning workflows, data sampling and curation, pre-processing, model training, ablation studies, evaluation, deployment, and inference optimization.
Experience working with large-scale foundation models, including pretraining, multimodal architectures, self-supervised learning approaches.
Deep understanding of runtime complexity, distributed/cloud ML infrastructure, data pipeline architecture,resource-aware optimization.
Comfortable in writing C++ code to help integrate with our autonomous vehicle platform.
Strong leadership skills to influence others and the team's technical strategy.
Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate concepts clearly and precisely.
NICE TO HAVES
Published research at top-tier conferences (NeurIPs, CVPR and similar).
Proven track record of deploying ML models at scale in self-driving or related fields.
Experience with offboard, auto-labeling, or "data-engine" pipelines, including mining, curation, active learning, and ground-truth-free evaluation for large-scale datasets.
Hands-on experience with vision-language models (VLMs), world models, video prediction, or latent dynamics models for autonomous systems or robotics.
Experience leveraging foundation models across multiple platforms and sensor setups, including distilling larger models into efficient real-time variants.
Familiarity with production-level coding and deployment onto embedded platforms, optimizing for latency and hardware constraints.
Experience in self-driving challenges (Perception, Prediction, Mapping, Localization, Planning, Simulation).
Your base salary is one 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 be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and level.
Skills Required
- MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics or related quantitative field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 3+ years experience with Python, major deep learning frameworks, and software engineering best practices.
- 3+ years experience with deep learning approaches (supervised, unsupervised, transfer learning, multi-task learning, reinforcement learning).
- 3+ years experience across ML workflows: data sampling/curation, pre-processing, model training, evaluation, deployment, and inference optimization.
- Experience with large-scale foundation models, pretraining, multimodal architectures, and self-supervised learning.
- Deep understanding of runtime complexity, distributed/cloud ML infrastructure, data pipeline architecture, and resource-aware optimization.
- Comfortable writing C++ to integrate models with an autonomous vehicle platform.
- Strong leadership skills to influence technical strategy and teams.
- Strong communication skills to convey concepts clearly and precisely.
- Published research at top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, CVPR) or similar.
- Proven track record deploying ML models at scale in self-driving or related fields.
- Hands-on experience with world models, video prediction, or latent dynamics for robotics/autonomous systems.
- Experience distilling foundation models into efficient real-time variants and deploying onto embedded platforms, optimizing for latency and hardware constraints.
- Experience in perception, prediction, mapping, localization, planning, or simulation for self-driving vehicles.
What We Do
Woven by Toyota will help to deliver the safest, most intelligent mobility experiences and lifestyle for Toyota customers everywhere. At Woven by Toyota, we envision a human-centered future, where world-class technology expands global access to mobility, enhances the capabilities of drivers, and empowers people to thrive. We achieve this with a unique global culture that weaves modern Silicon Valley innovation with Japanese quality craftsmanship. As society, technology and customer needs evolve, we continuously pursue new ways to create a more personal, seamless experience for customers.
