Lead Engineer, Product Delivery

Overview

Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s transformation into a mobility company. Our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society. Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, Arene (software development platform for software-defined vehicles), Woven City (a test course for mobility), and Cloud & AI (digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation).

Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute toward a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.

In this role, you will provide technical leadership of a distributed team of engineers to develop, mature, and release software systems engineering artifacts for our next-generation driving stack. You will oversee the technical development and sign-off of software system requirements, software architecture, software FMEA, Functional Safety software technical requirements, traceability of those requirements, and review/test methods at all levels, ensuring the highest quality software system with continuously improving software and system performance.

You will drive development through the team by establishing close working relationships and defining a standard of technical excellence. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Product Delivery, with leadership influence through review and mentoring. You will contribute to training and development of the engineering team, creating formal and informal opportunities to raise the bar for production quality systems within Woven by Toyota.

The Lead Engineer will also be a member of our Technical Guild, aligning and collaborating on cross-functional technical direction to ensure proper tradeoffs in overall system design. You will ensure artifacts have a path to production by providing structure (interfaces, boundary diagrams, etc.) to scale the system to additional vehicle lines and ODDs. You will work with experts in perception, planning, and machine learning to make appropriate technical tradeoffs and ensure solutions meet business timing.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in product development and launch of safety-critical systems in a technical role. Experience in automotive is a plus. Experience in taking AD/ADAS features from development to production is a significant bonus.

• Indirectly lead a team of 30+ software engineers in a global organization. Coordinate, prioritize and mentor their skills to deliver a world-class driving support solution in AD/ADAS applications, guiding the team toward scalable, robust technical solutions.
• Work cross-functionally as a member of the Technical Guild to ensure go-to-production mindset across organizational boundaries. Lead tradeoff discussions and drive issues to closure in a high-demand environment.
• Grow and mentor the team to raise technical acumen. Develop a technical training plan on production development artifacts (e.g., FMEA, SOTIF) to raise awareness and ensure high-quality artifacts that meet customer deliverables.
• Play a key role in hiring and developing new talent to help launch the AD/ADAS stack to production. Demonstrate experience hiring and developing engineers across entry, mid, and senior levels.
• Apply best-in-class automotive engineering practices for quality (e.g., DFMEA) and safety standards. Lead the team to anticipate failure modes and ensure robust design and implementation. Educate the team by asking critical questions and ensuring artifacts cover multiple perspectives.
• Support releases, triage, and root-cause analysis. Ensure issues are closed with interim containment and permanent corrective actions; continuously improve processes to maximize quality and, when needed, tackle the hardest technical problems.

• 15 years of automotive experience leading teams, developing technologies, and launching programs at an Automotive OEM, Tier1, or Tier
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• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Controls/Robotics, or a closely related field.
• Professional experience launching software systems to…