Senior Data Engineer, Behavior ML Planning & Prediction
Senior Data Engineer at Woven by Toyota (Toyota's mobility arm) building the data foundation for ML-based motion planning in autonomous driving. The role owns end-to-end data architecture and pipelines (ingestion to visualization) using SQL, Python, cloud warehouses like BigQuery/Snowflake, and tooling like dbt and Airflow, in a hybrid Tokyo setup.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Japan
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines and data platforms at scale
- Deep command of SQL and a modern programming language (e.g. Python)
- Hands-on expertise designing robust data models and multi-step ETL/ELT jobs
- Experience with a cloud data warehouse (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift)
- Experience with orchestration and transformation tooling (e.g. dbt, Airflow, or equivalents)
- Demonstrated ownership of data architecture for large-scale systems, reasoning about scalability, reliability, security, and cost trade-offs
- Track record of technical leadership across teams, setting engineering standards others adopt and driving org-wide decisions without formal authority
- Comfort operating in ambiguity — creating clarity and structure for loosely-defined cross-team problems
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Able to work hybrid from the Nihonbashi (Tokyo) office three days per week
Nice to have
- Experience unifying data across pipelines/formats/storage or migrating to an open table format (e.g. Apache Iceberg) for a lakehouse architecture
- Experience establishing data products, contracts, and SLAs, plus data-quality frameworks and observability
- Experience with large-scale multimodal data — spatial, temporal/sequential, sensor, log, simulation, time-series, trajectory
- Familiarity with autonomous driving or robotics domain concepts (vehicle motion, motion planning/prediction, perception, mapping/localization)
- Familiarity with distributed data processing (Spark, Ray), workflow orchestration (Flyte/Union, Airflow), and columnar/lakehouse formats (Parquet, Iceberg)
- Experience building self-serve analytics products, semantic layers, or BI/dashboarding tooling
- Business-level proficiency in Japanese
Full description
About Woven by Toyota
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.
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TEAM
The Behavior team at Woven by Toyota builds the data foundation for data-driven autonomy. Our work spans a variety of challenges — analyzing petabytes of multimodal fleet and simulation data, designing scalable data pipelines from ingestion to visualization, and delivering the canonical datasets, metrics, and self-serve tools that power ML-based motion planning across both onboard and offboard systems. We are looking for doers and creative problem solvers to join us in improving mobility for everyone with human-centered automated driving solutions.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
The team is looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to work in close collaboration with our ML and platform teams to source, transform, and serve high-quality datasets — building data pipelines from ingestion to visualization, and providing the tools and introspection that let others build on our data with confidence. You will have the chance to design and own the data architecture behind multiple large-scale projects, unify data products into a single, trusted foundation, and help accelerate the release of models for our next-generation autonomous vehicle platform, influencing millions of Toyota customer vehicles. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about self-driving car technology and its potential impact on humanity.
As a senior member of the team, you will act as a technical leader — mentoring engineers, setting the bar for data engineering craft, and raising the data capability of the teams around you. We highly value a "Giver" mindset — consistently asking "What can I do for you?" — combined with the conviction to advocate for the right long-term design even when it is a harder conversation.
This is a role with significant scope and autonomy. You will set a technical direction that outlasts any single project, thrive on ambiguous, blank-slate problems where the right structure has yet to be defined, and grow your sphere of influence and technical leadership as our data platform matures. It is well suited to an exceptional senior engineer ready to operate at a broader, organization-wide altitude.