Senior Engineering Manager - R&D

Overview

Who we are

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Who we’re looking for
Toyota’s Automated & Electronics Evaluation IVS4-AEE Department is looking for a passionate and highly-motivated Automated Driving Systems (ADS) & Electronic Evaluation Senior Engineering Manager. 

The primary responsibility of this role is to lead a team of engineers in discovering and realizing the next innovative ADS & Electronic technologies collaborating with internal and external partners using modern software and system development best practices.
 
Reporting to the General Manager of IVS4-AEE, the person in this role will support the AEE department's objective to research, develop, implement, and evaluate innovative ADS technologies.

What you’ll be doing 

• Establishing a group culture and framework which allows each team member to reach their maximum potential in implementing and evaluating ADAS & Electronic technologies.

• Maintaining a work environment which allows team members to have fun while developing, evaluating and implementing ADAS & Electronic technologies.

• Leading collaboration with internal and external partners to define system performance metrics, innovative ways to efficiently evaluate ADAS & Electronic performance, and best in class performance targets to achieve customer satisfaction.

• Mentoring team members to increase their research, development, and evaluation technical capabilities.

• Establishing and leading department-level data analysis methods to quickly and efficiently visualize data which can effectively be used in technical storytelling to support department recommendations for ADAS system kaizen.

• Negotiating hours and budget for annual JRNs.

• Managing group budgets, targets, and schedules.

• Implementing business process kaizens to further increase efficiencies and synergies within the group, department, and other internal and external partners.

• Establish processes to identify new technologies and establishing evaluation methods for them which allow for the accurate prediction and recommendation of the senor’s impact on final system performance.

• Monitoring and Improving ADAS & Electronic systems as necessary after released into mass production. 

• Implementing business process kaizens to further increase efficiencies and synergies within the group, department, and other internal and external partners.

• Advanced negotiation for JRs for new technical jobs and various engineering projects.

What you bring 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering such as mechanical engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent.

• 8 or more years of professional experience.

• 5 or more years of demonstrated ability to lead a team of engineers in design or evaluation projects.

• Experience designing or evaluating ADAS &/or Electronic systems.

• History of innovative ideas that you or your team developed into tangible products for internal or external customers.

• Experience leading internal and external collaboration projects.

• Excellent time management and task prioritization skills.

• Experience with ADS &/or electronic platform development.

• Successful creation and execution of complex planning activity around new ADAS &/or Electronic technology and innovations.

• Experience of 3 major project cycles for ADAS &/or Electronic systems for vehicle development.

• Proven ability to define new data analysis methods which result in easy to understand visualized data to support making recommendations though technical storytelling. 

• Excellent interpersonal skills and verbal/written communication skills.

• Clear and concise presentation skills, with an eye to international audiences.

• Willingness to travel both domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time.

Added bonus if you have

• Ability to write or modify software code as it relates to data analysis and data visualization.

• Experience of evaluating ADAS &/or Electronic technologies on the sensor/ECU and system level. 

• Experience troubleshooting prototype ADAS and/or Electronics system on rapid prototype vehicles.

• Experience or exposure with AUTOSAR and/or ASPICE conventions.

• Japanese language capability.

• Experience of communication and negotiation with external organizations such as NHTSA, IIHS for ADAS testing.

• Completion of ICT in ADAS Evaluation.

• Master’s degree in engineering or management.

What we’ll bring

During your interview process, our team will provide you with all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights include:

• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect

• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement

• Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount

• Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable)

• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family

• Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute

• Paid holidays and paid time off

• Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools and more

• Tax Advantaged Accounts (Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA)

• Relocation assistance (if applicable)

Belonging at Toyota

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10+ different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members’ efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong.

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