Chief Autonomy Engineering Leader

ResumeXrays LLC; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401k program

Flexible vacation policy

Family planning benefits

Job summary

Woven by Toyota in Palo Alto, CA seeks a Head Engineer to collaborate with the Head of Automated Driving. You will steer engineering teams toward a unified, data-driven autonomous driving stack, ensuring safety, quality, and performance across development and deployment.

You will mentor tech leads, influence stakeholders at Toyota and partner teams, and shape technical strategy for cutting-edge automated driving initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data-driven software development, robotics, autonomy or safety-critical systems.
• Deep understanding of ML and Data operations, big data & data flywheel infrastructures.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and facilitating complex technical discussions.
• Experience deploying software in Automated Driving products and leading end-to-end system integrations.
• Experience driving code quality and safety processes for production code delivery.
• Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and bias toward action.
• Preferred: patents or technical contributions in ML, robotics, or autonomy.
• Understanding of real-time operating systems and non-functional requirements.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and influence diverse stakeholders toward a common goal.

Responsibilities

• Develop a long-term technical strategy for data-driven infrastructure and automated driving stack with leadership.
• Lead cross-functional engineers to identify challenges and deliver unified, data-driven solutions.
• Resolve complex, cross-functional challenges related to autonomy stack development and ML pipelines.
• Shape and drive adoption of common development standards, toolchains, and ML stacks.
• Champion best practices in data-driven development, code quality, and model interpretability.
• Instill a safety-critical first mindset across all technical activities.
• Define technical KPIs and ensure progress toward safety, performance, and scalability.
• Represent the Head of Automated Driving in technical forums and external engagements.
• Mentor engineers through hands-on coding, peer reviews, and design reviews.

Skills

Data-driven software

Robotics

Autonomy

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

ML & Data Ops

Real-time systems

System integration

Code quality & safety

Communication

Job description

Woven by Toyota in Palo Alto, CA seeks a Head Engineer to collaborate with the Head of Automated Driving. You will steer engineering teams toward a unified, data-driven autonomous driving stack, ensuring safety, quality, and performance across development and deployment.

You will mentor tech leads, influence stakeholders at Toyota and partner teams, and shape technical strategy for cutting-edge automated driving initiatives.