Computer Vision Software Engineer (CV/ML)

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.
TEAMCore AD/ADAS develops, develops, implements, and scales human-centered automated driving solutions for personal and commercial use. We develop perception technologies and its production software for the AD/ADAS system. To realize a reliable and functional system, we are solving complex real-world problems utilizing large-scale data, machine learning algorithms, and a variety of perception technologies.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FORYou will combine modern technologies with safety standards while also considering cost efficiency. You will be an expert in neural networks and software engineering. Also, you have patience to handle the processes required for production development and approach them by asking "What can I do for you?" with a "Giver" mindset.
You appreciate a hybrid workspace and can come to our Nihonbashi office three days per week.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Train neural networks for autonomous driving tasks, such as object detection, pose estimation, depth estimation, keypoint detection and tracking, and SLAM
• Participate in the complete computer vision task life cycle: develop a new task or neural architecture, prepare it for execution on our in-vehicle compute platform, deploy it to a development build, work with peer engineering teams to integrate it into the full stack, and validate its safety with our QA team
• Stay up-to-date with advances in computer vision and machine learning for object detection, object tracking, depth estimation, SLAM, neural radiance fields (NeRF)
• Work in a flat organization structure and report to the head of the perception engineering team

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Background in computer science, engineering, or similar
• Experience with Python, C++, and software engineering best practices
• Ability to apply foundations of computer vision (especially multi-view geometry) and deep learning (layer details, loss functions, optimization)
• Fluency with common neural network architectures for computer vision
• Experience building software in one of these areas: object detection, object tracking, pose estimation, depth estimation, multi-view architectures, neural radiance fields (NeRF), video networks, keypoint detection & tracking, SLAM
• Experience with PyTorch, or another major deep learning framework
• Experience with data tools including jupyter notebooks, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, or scikit-learn
• Business-level proficiency in English

NICE TO HAVES:

• Experience with SIMD/SIMT parallelism, GPU programming, multithreaded programming
• Experience with other typical autonomy sensors, such as Lidar, Radar, and IMUs
• Experience optimizing deep-learning models towards specific hardware targets
• Experience with AWS services
• Business-level proficiency in Japanese

If you are located outside of Japan we will set up an interview over Google Hangout Meet.
WHAT WE OFFER・Competitive Salary - Based on experience・Work Hours - Flexible working time with NO core-hours・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 Security - all applicable (Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance)・In-house Training Program (software study/language study)
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