ADAS Resident Engineer

About the Department:

The Industrial Autonomy & Engineering unit empowers businesses to accelerate digital transformation by applying intelligence at scale across products, processes, and ecosystems. The team supports customers in designing and building software-defined, sustainable, AI-enabled, and security-focused intelligent products that improve customer experience and performance.

The organization partners closely with Automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers to bring Software-Defined Vehicles to life through AI, IoT platforms, cloud technologies, cybersecurity, engineering expertise, and data-driven solutions. The company is recognized globally for leadership in this domain.

The work culture emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, delivery excellence, innovation, strong governance, and customer-centric solutions while contributing to the future of mobility.

About the Project:

Multi-program engagement with a leading global Tier-1 customer for end-to-end ADAS system development.

The multidisciplinary team works closely with the customer across:

• Project Management
• System Architecture Design
• Software Development
• AI Integration
• System Integration
• System Validation
• Functional Safety
• Security
• Process Compliance

The project focuses on quality, scalability, governance, and production-ready ADAS solutions.

About the Position:

• Frontline on-site technical role embedded with a major automotive customer with high ownership and quick decision-making
• Exposure to the complete lifecycle including development builds, integration, launch, early production, and field/warranty activities
• Opportunity to build strong OEM relationships while influencing engineering priorities and quality improvements
• Develop expertise in customer processes, issue triage, and cross-functional coordination

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as the on-site technical interface between the customer and internal engineering teams for ADAS ECUs/sensors
• Handle customer-reported issues end-to-end including reproduction, log collection, root cause coordination, and closure
• Lead structured problem-solving activities and customer deliverables including action plans and 8D reporting
• Support software/hardware updates, flashing, configuration control, and version management
• Validate fixes through bench and vehicle testing
• Participate in customer meetings, build events, and design/quality reviews
• Coordinate engineering change requests, implementation timing, and release tracking
• Support launch and early production activities including warranty and escalation handling
• Maintain issue dashboards and status reporting
• Build strong relationships with customer engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams
• Ensure clear bilingual communication across teams

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Automotive, Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, or related field)
• 5+ years of experience in ADAS/ECU engineering, integration, or validation with direct customer/OEM interaction
• Ability to diagnose system-level issues using logs, traces, and diagnostics tools such as CAN, UDS, and DoIP
• Strong coordination skills across cross-functional teams
• Fluent Japanese and English communication skills for meetings, documentation, and customer interaction

Language Requirements:

• Japanese/English bilingual
• Advanced business-level Japanese is mandatory
• English required for offshore communication
• Japanese required for customer communication

Employment Type:

• Full-time employee

Working Hours:

• 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• Flexible working hours available
• Core hours: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Work Location:

• Yokohama / Customer location