Tech-Lead, Product Safety Strategy
Tokyo
Woven City – Woven City Management /
Employee /
Hybrid
About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota, a part of the Toyota Group, is challenging the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation and empowering mobility transformation. Through our AD/ADAS technology, our automotive software development platform Arene OS, our mobility test course Toyota Woven City, and Toyota’s growth fund, Woven Capital, we are pioneering the movement of people, goods, information, and energy, weaving a future of enhanced safety, connectivity and well-being for all.
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TEAM
Toyota is redefining what it means to move. We're challenging the current state of mobility by enhancing the movement of people, goods, information and energy. Centered around three core concepts - A Living Laboratory™, Human-Centered, and Ever Evolving City™ - Woven City serves as a test course for mobility to fulfill our purpose of well-being for all.
We do this by bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility to co-create, develop and refine innovative products and services. This cross-section of social infrastructure, mobility, and people provides a unique opportunity for inventors, residents and visitors to interact seamlessly with new technologies throughout daily life in an environment that emulates a real city.
The Engineering Hub Function leads technical cross-functional activities from the entire "Woven City" perspective. It creates policies and supports service development from quality management..
Our team, as one of sub-Function of Engineering Hub, supports internal developers in terms of machinery safety and its operation. We make policies and guidelines for safety risk management, advise developers, and lecture hardware designers and product operators on conducting risk assessment based on ISO12100.
We are seeking talented people to join us as we take on new challenges to create new products and services for the Toyota Woven City.
For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are looking for an experienced machinery safety or functional safety specialist to be the responsible person for the safety and certification of novel services for use in a city as a test course for mobilities.. You will define safety policies and certification requirements, guide the engineering teams to meet those requirements, check the safety compliance of the products, report status to Leadership, and identify and implement process improvements. You will establish yourself as a specialist and help to solve ambiguous and complex questions.
Your contributions will span the entire product design lifecycle, from conception to design, production and maintenance. You will direct compliance testing, risk assessment, and international certification activities for the launch of Woven City in Japan and lay the foundation for global expansion.
This position will report to the lead or the sub-lead of Development Optimization and the Head of Engineering Hub.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Create product safety and safe product operation policy, standard documents, guidelines, etc. to achieve safe demonstrations in Woven City
- Support the planning of the strategy/planning phase regarding the safety concept of the system utilizing deep knowledge and experience to support developers on safety compliance issues and failures
- Consider experiment demonstration conditions and plan environmental infrastructures for safe demonstrations in Woven City.
- Align strategic goals and efficiently manage projects, with liaison with multiple development and business teams
- Develop and apply formal safety analysis methods such as risk assessments, FMEA, FTA and reliability modeling.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of work experience with complex electromechanical systems.
- Experience with the functional safety requirements and certification of multiple devices.
- Experience obtaining functional safety certification for custom hardware and full-variability software.
- Experience leading risk assessments, FMEAs, and calculating functional safety characteristics.
- Experience with systems analysis for safety on non-safety systems.
- Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written both English and Japanese with members from diverse backgrounds.
- Attitude to make efforts to understand Toyota's safety culture.
- Flexibility and tenacity to deal with diverse decision-making mechanisms and logic.
NICE TO HAVES
- Certification or license as a functional safety engineer.
- Experience with safety standards, internal policy development.
- Experience using JIRA and Confluence
- Experience of software development
- Agile/scrum work style
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Important Points
・All interviews will be arranged via Google Meet, unless otherwise stated.
・The same job descriptions are available in both English and Japanese; therefore, we kindly ask that you apply to only one version.
・We kindly request that you submit your resume in English, if possible. However, Japanese resumes are also acceptable. Please note that, depending on the English proficiency requirements of the role, we may request an English version of your resume later in the process.
WHAT WE OFFER
・Competitive Salary - Based on experience
・Work Hours - Flexible working time
・Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated)
・Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated)
・Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company
・Japanese Social Insurance - Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance
・Housing Allowance
・Retirement Benefits
・Rental Cars Support
・In-house Training Program (software study/language study)
Our Commitment
・We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
・Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. Please see our privacy notice for more details.
