Systems Engineer, Arene Applied Engineering

Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once‑in‑a‑century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, 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, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies;
Arene, our software development platform for software‑defined vehicles;
Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business‑critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well‑being for all.

Arene’s vision is to enable the most programmable vehicles on the planet. The Arene Systems Engineering team drives the definition of the software systems needed to deliver this vision. The team collaborates with global partners to define requirements, conduct analyses, and create architectures for software components and interfaces used in next‑generation Toyota vehicles. Engaged throughout the software development lifecycle, the Arene Systems Engineering team applies engineering expertise to ensure delivery of safe and secure software products.

The Arene organization is growing and we are establishing an engineering center in Ann Arbor, MI to strengthen our global team.

We seek a highly technical and collaborative systems software engineer to bolster the Applied Engineering platform. You should possess deep systems programming expertise, a strong orientation toward solving complex platform integration problems, and enthusiasm for working in environments where vehicle software features require robust cross‑platform and cross‑domain data orchestration. The ideal candidate will have a passion for technology, be self‑driven and a pragmatic approach to applying system engineering principles to modern software development practices.

The ability to understand and distill complex customer requirements into testable and verifiable specifications is essential.

• Collaborate with peer systems engineers, product, and global partners to design and implement software solutions as a part of the Applied Engineering team (SDK), ensuring reliability, scalability, and high performance
• Develop, integrate, and maintain system‑level software components, with a strong focus on C++ and embedded firmware for real‑time automotive systems.
• Implement and enhance middleware components, inter‑process communication frameworks, and scheduling systems to support hardware‑agnostic, update‑friendly vehicle services that bridge multiple in‑vehicle domains and support rapid feature deployment
• Drive and support the development of system design specifications including state machines, sequence diagrams, and create testable system requirements, software requirements and establish traceability across all these artifacts.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex software and system‑level issues, working closely with quality and integration engineers.

• 4+ years of experience creating detailed system and software‑level requirements for complex products
• Bachelor degree or higher in systems engineering, computer science, embedded engineering, or related field
• Experience with CATIA for architecture modeling and JAMA for requirement management are MUST for creating and documenting system and software architectures (SysML, UML)
• Experience with breaking down stakeholder requests into use cases, traceable systems and software requirements along with acceptance tests
• Deep understanding of vehicle networking, specifically in Advanced Driver‑Assistance Systems (ADAS) and cockpit architecture, other ECU architectures
• Ability to perform code reviews in C++, Python
• Exposure to cloud platforms, containerization, and Dev Ops tooling is required
• Proficiency with modern build systems and CI/CD environments (e.g., Bazel, Git Hub/Git Lab)

• Experience working in software projects
• Experience with embedded software…