About the Role

A mobility-tech company developing an open-source autonomous driving software stack is looking for an engineer to lead software release operations and quality management. The platform evolves daily, so this role focuses on establishing a reliable release pipeline and maintaining objective performance and code-quality metrics across the entire system.

What You’ll Do

You will take ownership of the quality and release cycle of an autonomous driving software platform. Your work will include:

Regular Software Releases

Designing a release process that balances development speed with reliability
Automating release tasks to reduce operational overhead

Quality & Performance Evaluation

Measuring performance across perception, localization, planning, and vehicle behavior
Evaluating runtime characteristics such as execution time and compute resource usage
Assessing code quality at scale
Building dashboards and visualizations to surface quality metrics

Cross-System Collaboration

Working closely with teams across perception, localization, planning, control, mapping, and simulation
Contributing to a highly modular system where many components must operate in harmony

This position gives you broad visibility into the entire autonomous driving stack. You will help ensure that a complex system—composed of many interdependent software modules—works together as a safe, stable whole.

Required Skills

Hands-on development experience with Linux/Unix-based systems
Proficiency in C++ and/or Python
5+ years of practical engineering experience in at least one of the following domains:
- Autonomous driving or robotics
- Software product development
  (Internships and part-time work also count)
Business-level Japanese
Business-level English reading and writing

Preferred Skills

Experience in QA/QC for software products
Automation using Shell Script, Python, Ansible, or similar tools
Familiarity with ROS or ROS 2
Experience building/operating CI pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions)
Experience with BI tools or data visualization platforms
Contribution to open-source projects
Business-level English conversation skills
Practical experience with Scrum or Kanban
Knowledge of software engineering best practices
Interest or background in autonomous driving technologies

Work Style & Environment

Full-time position
Flexible working hours under a flextime system
Hybrid/remote work possible depending on team arrangements
Offices located in a major metropolitan area in Japan
Non-smoking work environment

Holidays & Leave

Full two-day weekends
National holidays
Summer leave (3 days)
Year-end/new-year holidays
Over 120 annual holidays
Parental leave, caregiving leave, and short-hour options available

Benefits

Full social insurance
Commuting allowance based on internal policy
Defined contribution pension plan
Family-friendly work support

Ideal Candidate Profile

Strong background in software product development
Experience carrying robotics or autonomous systems software into production is especially valued
Web engineers with strong Linux and Python skills are also welcome if motivated to work in autonomous driving
Early-career to mid-career engineers, especially in their early 30s, are a good fit
Japanese-language inability is a blocker for this role

Selection Process

Document screening
Technical assignment
First interview
Second interview
Final interview

Software Release Engineer