Senior Software Process Engineer

Woven by Toyota is the mobility technology subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Our mission is 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 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 Creating high-quality automated driving systems or advanced driver assistance systems is both challenging and urgent. It's crucial to meticulously design software architecture, development processes, environments, and testing methodologies to meet this goal.

Our team has two primary objectives: establishing and enhancing software development standards for autonomous compliance by engineers, and ensuring that development activities across teams are conducted properly, resulting in high-quality outputs. We believe that active engagement and effective communication, coupled with expertise in international standards, process models, software technologies, and development management, are essential to drive these initiatives forward.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR We are looking for outstanding engineers to develop a mechanism ensuring the quality of our products. You will collaborate with diverse teams including system design, architecture, development, testing, project management, and other stakeholders in our group companies. We seek individuals who can adapt to derive solutions across teams, applying experience in quality management for software. Building relationships with stakeholders is essential.

You will report to the Team Lead of Global Quality Management, and this role is hybrid - you will work in the office 3+ days per week.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop company-wide software engineering standard
• Develop software engineering environment/toolchain
• Find issues with a wide view, extract essential issues, make a plan for solution. Visualize using graphical tools and implement process improvements based on data
• Find the process that has to be improved from communication with engineers and suggest improved process and get agreement from engineers
• Build relationships with customers and suppliers to make a cooperative software engineering process

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience improving the software engineering process
• Experience developing engineering manuals/templates
• 3+ years of experience in software development for mass production
• Experience conducting requirement analysis, static code analysis, or HIL testing
• Experience building the process supporting tool across toolchain and establish it efficiently
• Fluency in English and Japanese language

NICE TO HAVES

• Knowledge of ISO standards related to quality (e.g. IATF 16949, ISO26262)
• Basic knowledge of prompt engineering for Generative AI
• Work experience related to software tool chain by using python, Java or SQL
• Work experience related to software quality metrics (e.g. Cyclomatic complexity)
• Experience in code analysis tools like Understand, Lattix and Polyspace
• Experience in Requirement management tools like DOORS, Jama, Integrity and Polarion
• Experience leading project management like PMO.
• Skills in team management of Agile/scrum development by using Jira/Confluence
• Experience in software process improvement according to Automotive-SPICE