Automated Driving Systems – Ads – Evaluation Engineer
| Company | Toyota |
|---|---|
| Location | Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level |
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science (or higher) degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Computer science, Robotics engineering, Mechatronics, or in an equivalent technical field
- Industry or academic experience in developing code for data analysis using PYTHON, C++, MATLAB, or similar programming languages
- Industry or academic experience developing software in shared repositories such as Git or SVN
- Industry or academic experience developing application or post-processing software to facilitate analysis of test data from a vehicle or simulated environment
- Willingness to work overtime, when necessary (~25% per week)
- Willingness to travel domestically and/or internationally, when necessary (~ 25%)
- A valid US drivers’ license
Responsibilities
- Work with stakeholders across the organization and with Tier-1 suppliers to validate performance of ADS/ADAS
- Conduct hands-on vehicle evaluations in closed-track, public-road, and simulated environments; collect and analyze data
- Configure, modify, and troubleshoot test vehicles, sensors, and data acquisition systems
- Develop, maintain, standardize evaluation processes, protocols, test cases, check sheets
- Promote customer needs through voice of customer data, driving environment, gaps to competitor performance, social trends to drive ADS/ADAS performance that delights our customers
- Negotiate evaluation goals, plan timelines, execute
- Monitor issues and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for decision making
- Engage regularly with stakeholders for alignment
- Distill data to build a story through logical, easy-to-understand, visualization
- Communicate proactively with stakeholders toward consensus
- Improve testing efficiencies through automation for data collection, analysis, simulation, bench testing and in-vehicle validation
- Provide data-driven proposals for feature modifications or improvements to existing systems, centered around the usability and acceptance of ADS/ADAS
- Form collaborative partnerships with stakeholders to realize efficiencies through the best use of technology and human resources
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with vehicle evaluation and tuning
- Experience in evaluating ADS/ADAS, including modifying or creating new KPI
- Experience in vehicle development at Toyota or Tier 1 Toyota supplier
- Working knowledge of radar, camera, and sonar systems in automotive applications
- Experience with OBD (On Board Diagnostic) and CAN (Controller Area Network) tools for diagnosing, troubleshooting, and testing
- Experience with installing and troubleshooting data acquisition systems for vehicle or test bench (ex. CANoe, Vbox, Oxts)
- Experience with continuous integration tools e.g., Azure DevOps Pipelines, Jenkins
- Experience using cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) to perform automated data analysis