Sr. Engineering Manager - Data Platform

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.
TeamOur data platform team is working on accelerating autonomous driving by providing access to petabytes of data collected by our fleet of autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles. Efficient, fast and cost-effective access to data at large scale is key to tackle the hardest problems in AD/ADAS, from developing the Machine Learning (ML) models for perception and prediction of human driving patterns, to increasing the sophistication of our validation and simulation by identifying rare and interesting real-world driving situations. The data ecosystem developed by the AD/ADAS data team is a key building block for developing and testing modern AD/ADAS products that will impact millions of customers.
Our data collection, tracking, processing, and visualizations are built on top of modern, industry-standard technology cloud services. We strive for zero downtime service deployments, with unlimited pushes to production. Our user interface and command line utilities that we provide to our customers can be accessed both through browsers and private mobile apps.
Who are we looking for?The AD/ADAS Data Platform team is looking for a manager who is passionate about enabling the next generation of automotive software development. The data collection, tracking, processing, and visualization platform requires automatic distribution of large amounts of data between edge sites and the AWS cloud. Our platform supports multiple regions in AWS and many edge sites, and we’re also looking to grow to additional sites, and significantly increase the amount of data that flows through the system. Our customers vary between software engineers who want to search and download the data or portions of it, vehicle operators who need to upload the data, other engineering and product managers who want to see high level dashboards about the status of the process, and c-level executives who consume business metrics that measure our success ratio. Our users are located in the US, UK, EU, and Japan.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, hire and retain a team of high performing engineers
• Develop, mentor and grow exceptional talent 
• Interface with business stakeholders in engineering and product to incorporate business requirements and prioritization in a global team, using strong communication strategies. This includes travelling to the UK and Japan
• Set and communicate team vision and strategy that support the broader organization and business goals
• Create an inclusive, healthy collaborative environment for the team and with partner teams
• Continuously improve and establish the processes that improve the team’s execution and engineering excellence
• Guide the design and implementation of new solutions that increase the usage and the impact of data for AD/ADAS development

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience managing a distributed team in a fast-changing environment
• Experience in influencing and driving change across multiple teams
• Experience in growing and developing talent
• Experience building scalable and reliable distributed systems for Data Processing or similar areas
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, and Go
• Hands-on experience developing cloud applications (e.g. AWS (preferred), GCP, Azure)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in influencing and driving change in complex organizations
• Experience with matrix organizations
• Experience with working with remote engineers
• Technical knowledge is required, we expect the candidate to be able to have meaningful conversations with our stakeholders about our solutions, what we can, and mostly what we can’t do

WHAT WE OFFERWe are committed to creating a modern work environment that supports our employees and their loved ones. We offer many options of the best programs to allow you to do your most meaningful work and to help you shape the future of mobility.・Excellent health, wellness, dental and vision coverage・A rewarding 401k program・Flexible vacation policy・Family planning and care benefits
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