<div><a href="https://woven.toyota/en">Woven by Toyota</a> <span>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.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span>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 &amp; 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.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>TEAM</b></div><div>Woven by Toyota’s AD/ADAS organization is developing the core algorithms for safe and robust driving of complex and uncertain real-world environments. Our teams are contributing to next generation autonomy and ADAS active safety systems through core algorithms, data-driven approaches, and efficient architectures. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR</b></div><div>We are looking for a systems-minded engineer with experience in AD/ADAS to develop a state-of-the-art motion planner for autonomous driving. You will also contribute to the design and development of the algorithms in the data pipelines needed to train and evaluate the machine learning model in the motion planner to improve our next-generation autonomous vehicles. The ideal candidate will have domain expertise in motion planning, have experience in the ETL pipelines, be familiar with machine learning solutions, have built and deployed real-world autonomous driving products, and have worked in a fast-paced environment along with other highly talented engineers. </div><h3>RESPONSIBILITIES</h3><ul><li>Design, develop, deploy, and evaluate state of the art algorithms and capabilities for vehicle motion planning.</li><li>Design and develop the algorithms in the ETL pipeline for dataset curation, labelling, training, evaluation and visualization. </li><li>Integrate the machine learning model in the motion planning stack.</li><li>Use metrics to measure, validate, and improve performance.</li><li>Design reusable software components as part of an integrated system.</li><li>Understand and fulfill the software practices that produce maintainable code, including simulation, continuous integration, code review, HIL testing, and in-vehicle testing.</li><li>Collaborate closely with teams like Perception, Control, Simulation, Infrastructure, Tooling to drive unified solutions.</li></ul><h3>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS</h3><ul><li>M.S., Ph.D., or equivalent, in Robotics, Control, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or other quantitative fields.</li><li>3+ years of experience in the development of motion planning algorithms, e.g. trajectory optimization, sampling-based planning, model predictive control, and machine learning.</li><li>Hands-on experience with data processing pipeline and ETL pipeline.</li><li>Hands-on experience with architecture design and building a planning stack for autonomous robots.</li><li>Hands-on experience working with localization reference frame transformations</li><li>Hands-on experience building ML datasets from temporal driving data signals consisting of varying frequencies and latencies</li><li>Strong programming skills in C++ and Python.</li><li>An excellent communicator, skilled collaborator, and principled colleague.</li><li>Strong R&amp;D potential in algorithm design, data-driven approaches to safety, and large-scale systems architecture.</li><li>A strong, practical understanding of real-time system development, performance issues, testing modalities, and tradeoffs.</li></ul><div>For positions based in Palo Alto, CA, the base pay for this position ranges from $140,000- $230,000 a year.</div><div><br /></div><div>Your base salary is one part of your total compensation. We offer a base salary, short term and long term incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package. The total compensation offered to an employee will be dependent upon the individuals skills, experience, qualifications, location, and level.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>WHAT WE OFFER</b></div><div>We 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.</div><div>・Excellent health, wellness, dental and vision coverage</div><div>・A rewarding 401k program</div><div>・Flexible vacation policy</div><div>・Family planning and care benefits</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Our Commitment</b></div><div>・We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.</div><div>・Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. 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Senior Motion Planning Engineer, ETL Algorithms

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