Hiring Function Owner in Japan

■ Function Owner

■ Company Overview

A global leader in technology and industry, transforming mobility through innovation. 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities

● Client Japan is hiring Function Owners to lead the design and development of vehicle functions for “anSWer,” our autonomous driving product supporting next-generation mobility. You will oversee system design using data from multiple sensors (camera, radar, ultrasonic), and collaborate with software and validation teams to ensure product quality and functional completeness across the V-model development cycle. This is a high-impact role involving technical leadership and decision-making that directly influences product success.

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Lead the design and development of functions for the “anSWer” autonomous driving system

● Manage system functionality integrating camera, radar, and ultrasonic technologies

● Define and update system requirements with full traceability to stakeholder needs

● Collaborate with system architects, software engineers, and validation/testing teams

● Act as technical lead in customer meetings and real vehicle testing

● Define KPIs and performance indicators for each function and design measurement strategies

● Review and improve test strategies, environments, and test cases

● Ensure compliance with development processes, quality standards, and regulatory requirements

● Lead and support technical reviews with suppliers and cross-functional departments

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Experience in system engineering (ASPICE)

● Basic knowledge of embedded software and SoC (System-on-Chip)

● Familiarity with ISO 26262 (functional safety)

● Proven experience writing system requirements

● English: Business level or higher

● Japanese: Conversational level or higher (Business level required for OEM-facing role)

■ Work Location

● Tokyo

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Hiring Test and Validation Team Leader in Japan

■ Test and Validation Team Leader

■ Company Overview

A global leader in technology and industry, transforming mobility through innovation. 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities

● We are seeking a System Validation Leader for radar and ultrasonic sensor technologies used in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving (AD) functions. This role leads the full validation lifecycle—from strategy planning through execution, evaluation, and issue resolution—ensuring high-quality system delivery in collaboration with development, integration, and quality teams.

■ Experience and Qualifications

● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering,  Mechatronics, or related field

● Minimum 5 years of system validation experience in the automotive industry

● Business-level proficiency in Japanese and English

● Strong understanding of radar and ultrasonic sensor principles, limitations, and performance metrics

● Applied knowledge of signal processing, object detection, tracking, and classification

● Experience translating sensor outputs into system-level ADAS/AD functions

● Familiarity with in-vehicle communication protocols including LIN, CAN, CAN FD, ● Ethernet, SPI, Daisy Chain, and Point-to-Point 

● Develop and manage the system validation roadmap

● Execute system-level validation and debugging

● Lead validation engineers as the technical owner

● Collaborate with development, integration, and quality teams

● Manage customer reporting, risk mitigation, and issue resolution

● Track progress across milestones, KPIs, and deliverables

● Ensure quality assurance throughout the validation lifecycle

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

● Strong communication skills: able to summarize conversations, catch up on unclear points, relay info to team
● Experience with ADAS or autonomous driving validation frameworks

● Familiarity with V-model and Agile development methodologies

● Test automation using Python, CAPL, or Robot Framework

● Hands-on experience with validation tools such as CANoe, CANape, dSPACE, ETAS

● Knowledge of ISO 26262 and ASPICE standards

● Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab

● Prior collaboration with global OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers

■ Work Location

● Tokyo

Details will be provided during the meeting.

ADAS Specialist in Japan 

■ ADAS Specialist

■ Company Overview 

 Technological Leading Mobility Tech Company. 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Plan and conduct driving tests for autonomous driving and ADAS-equipped vehicles in various environments across Japan and overseas.

● Monitor vehicle behavior during test runs, identify anomalies, and document performance metrics.

● Perform real-time and post-test analysis to visualize results and assess system functionality.

● Debug software components based on observed issues and collaborate with development teams to implement fixes.

● Conduct root cause analysis to determine the underlying factors contributing to system failures or inconsistencies. 

■ Experience and Qualifications 

● At least three years of experience in the development, testing, or validation of autonomous driving or ADAS technologies.

● Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following areas:

● Real-world vehicle evaluation of ADAS systems, including hands-on driving and performance analysis.

● Data analysis and software debugging in the context of autonomous vehicle systems.

● Construction and operation of Hardware-in-the-Loop or Driver-in-the-Loop Simulation environments.

● Execution of ADAS testing using simulation platforms and real vehicles.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications 

● Ability to evaluate system performance under challenging conditions and edge cases.

● Experience in identifying issues through detailed analysis and contributing to system improvements for mass production.

● Strong driving skills and experience in conducting subjective evaluations based on sensory feedback.

■ Work Location 

● Tokyo

Embedded Engineer in Japan 

■ Embedded Engineer 

■ Company Overview 

 Technological Leading Engineering Service Provider. 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Develop and maintain embedded software for automotive control units and sensors

● Integrate software with hardware platforms and perform debugging and validation

● Optimize code for performance, memory, and power efficiency

● Collaborate with hardware, systems, and test teams to ensure seamless integration

● Support software deployment and updates across development and production 

■ Experience and Qualifications 

● Proficiency in C/C++ and embedded system development

● Experience with RTOS (e.g., QNX, FreeRTOS) and microcontroller architectures

● Familiarity with communication protocols (CAN, LIN, SPI, I2C)

● Strong debugging skills using tools like JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers

● Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git)

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications 

● Experience in automotive domains such as ADAS, telematics, or infotainment

● Exposure to model-based development and simulation tools

● Understanding of ISO 26262 and functional safety standards

■ Work Location 

● Tokyo

Project Manager-ADAS position in Japan 

■ Project Manager-ADAS  

■ Company Overview 

 Technological and industrial leader in electrification, driving assistance systems company. 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Products: Handle existing projects involving front cameras, sensors, vision systems, and LiDAR while also engaging in activities to secure new projects.

● Existing Projects: Software updates, system changes, and configuration modifications for products already in mass production

● Manage OEM/OES projects (components, systems using established technologies)

● Responsible for KPI achievement across profitability, quality, and production readiness

● Secure and manage project resources

● For Phase 2 (P2) projects not completed in Phase 1 (P1), drive coordination with P2 stakeholders

● Resolve project-related issues and escalations

● Check and validate team activities, suggest timing scenarios to meet milestones

● Conduct concept competitions for customer requests (RFI, RFQ), as applicable

● Define and manage own budget and portions of project/system budgets

● Define scope and prepare project team for decision-making processes in committees

● Prepare/submit CAA and IAR (project/system level); address issues with P1 PM or launch manager

● Coordinate all internal and external project changes via team

● Apply Design to Cost methodology

● Escalate gaps vs. goals appropriately, with proper speed and foresight

● Lead AAI activities and foster PTM development across the team

● Set project goals and take ownership of PTMs

■ Experience and Qualifications 

● Software knowledge

● Experience as a PM (even technical sales backgrounds are accepted), or SW Engineers willing to transition to PM

● Automotive industry experience

● Business-level English

● Business-level Japanese (N2 preferred; N3 acceptable if communication is sufficient)

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications 

● Ability to work in an international environment (few Japanese members in the team)

● Resilience under pressure and assertiveness in expressing opinions 

■ Work Location 

● Tokyo

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Zeals Robotics Software Engineer

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PayPay Securities Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (V3)

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Career Opportunity for a Senior Backend Engineer in Japan! 

■ Senior Backend Engineer (English speaking position)

■ Company Overview

A leading FinTech organization, cashless payments in Japan, offering innovative and convenient credit services integrated with a major digital payment platform.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

●We are looking for senior Backend engineers to build, or rebuild, rock solid services with a laser focus on scalability and maintainability.

●Rearchitect our systems landscape: we want to reassess and fix the behind-the-scenes to power a top-notch user experience. It is bundled with difficult design challenges to solve: we simply want to get it right.

●Design, support the implementation and deliver large scale, and complex, systems

●Manage teams stakeholders such as product managers or frontend engineers but also other team leads or non-tech stakeholders.

●Leverage the infrastructure to solve such large scale problems.

●Acts as a gatekeeper to the team quality standard

●Triage, debug and resolve product issues or other incoming inquiries

●Mentor other team members and saveguard the team quality standards

■ Experience and Qualifications

●5+ years equivalent experience in SaaS platform development.

●Experience in any OOP based language e.g Kotlin, Java, C#, Scala etc.

●Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases, along with distributed cache.

●Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and object oriented programming.

●In-depth understanding of concurrency and distributed computing.

Back-end services:

Main implementations are in Spring Boot, with a mix of Java 11/Spring Boot 2 and Java

17/Spring Boot 3.

Some legacy systems are written in Java EE.

Testing is done with JUnit and Mockito

Deployment relies on AWS ECS

CI/CD is handled by AWS CodePipeline

Infrastructure

All our services run in AWS

Infrastructure is managed by AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudWatch is used for observability

Coding environment: GitHub, IntelliJ, Gradle

Documentation & Project management: Confluence, Miro, JIRA

Communication: Slack, Zoom, Office 365

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
●Experience with Java/Spring Boot framework

●Experience with implementing platform components such as RESTful APIs, Pub/Sub Systems, Database Clients.

●Experience in system design for high traffic application with scalability in mind

●Experience with microservices & event-driven architecture

●Experience gRPC communication design and implementation

●Experience in a multicultural environment

●Japanese conversational proficiency is a plus

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Hybrid work environment within Japan

● Work with International team members

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Japan! 

■ Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

■ Company Overview

A fintech company has grown rapidly and is widely used as a payment platform by about half of smartphone users in Japan. It also offers simple, everyday investment services through a mobile app, making asset management easy and accessible. As part of a larger group, the company is rapidly improving its products and driving the adoption of cashless payments and digital financial services in Japan. It is looking for professionals who are proactive, collaborative, and passionate about creating new value.

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

Be part of the team to build up a new organization and environment. Develop skills in making business plans from a high perspective, through the high-level coordination with departments. Gain experience in a company that aiming to be the pioneer in the market to provide great services, which never had before during the era of Financial reformation

●Architect and build a robust, scalable and stable infrastructure

●Architect and build Infrastructure that is easily maintainable during patching and upgrades without downtime

●Architect and build Infrastructure with AWS regional level failure tolerance

●Work together with our Security Engineers to provision a secure Infrastructure

●Automations for AWS Deployments to ensure fast delivery of Cloud Services to our developers

●Provide through Automations means for developers to easily deploy resources on AWS

■ Experience and Qualifications

●5+ years of technical experience in AWS based Infrastructure solution design and build

●Experience in production level Infrastructure change management and releases for High traffic & business-critical systems

●Good understanding of Cloud security best practices and payment industry compliance standards

●Experience in production incident management and cross team collaboration

●Extensive technical hands-on experience of Computing, Storage and Analytical Services on Cloud(AWS)

●Experience with IAC tools in AWS such as Terraform etc.

●Experience with Linux Internals and System Administration

●Experience with Cloud Services Monitoring, Detection and Response

●Experience in Cloud Infrastructure Service patching and upgrades

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
●Has maintained over 200 servers/containers in a production, customer facing cloud environment

●Experience in Disaster recovery for cloud systems and improvements for RTO and RPO

●Experience with other cloud service providers (e.g Google Cloud)

●Experience in Cloud Services Performance Tuning, cost controls and management

●Experience using and contributing to Open Source tools

●Published papers / blogs / articles - Experience in managing IT compliance and security risk

●Experience in working for infrastructure design and build in securities, finance, or similar industries

●Experience in in-house service operations

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Hybrid work model (flexible working style including Remote and office)

● Work with International team members

● Business level Japanese proficiency is required (JLPT N1 / Native)

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.

Career Opportunity for a Robotics Software Engineer in Japan! 

■ Robotics Software Engineer

■ Company Overview

We combine AI and conversation design expertise, provides brands the ability to easily create and integrate automated chat experiences, transforming post, story, or ad into personalized interactive experiences.  

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

●Design and build the on-robot runtime: ROS 2 nodes, task orchestration/state machines, safety guards, and recovery behaviors

●Serve learned policies on-robot and at the edge (policy servers, streaming inference, latency budgets on Jetson-class hardware)

●Integrate subsystems into one working robot: manipulation policies (Zen), navigation/SLAM, voice interaction, fleet telemetry

●Own deployment and operations tooling: containerized builds, system services, OTA updates, remote debugging of field robots

●Build the observability layer: structured logging, telemetry ingestion, incident triage for deployed robots

●Work with FDEs to turn field failures into runtime fixes and with the Data Platform team to capture every run as training data

■ Experience and Qualifications

●5+ years of software engineering, with 2+ years shipping software that ran on physical robots or embedded/edge systems in production

●Strong modern C++ and Python

●Production ROS / ROS 2 experience on Linux (real robots, not only simulation)

●Real-time thinking: latency budgets, lock-free queues where needed, graceful degradation, watchdogs

●Docker, Git, CI/CD as daily tools; comfort debugging a robot over SSH in the field

●Working English (team documentation is in English); Japanese is a plus for field work

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
●On-device ML inference (TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, GPU serving) and Jetson/edge optimization

●Experience integrating learned policies (VLA/BC) into control stacks

●Fleet management, OTA update systems, or remote operations tooling

●Voice/multimodal interaction pipelines

●Safety frameworks for robots operating around people

Why This Role

●OS is where the whole company converges: your code decides whether hardware (D1) plus intelligence equals a robot a hospital can rely on.

●Field feedback in days: robots you deploy run real shifts at real customer sites in Japan.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● English speaking position

● Work with International team members

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.