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Industry Trends for IT Jobs
Acceleration of automated driving technology
While the Japanese market as a whole is facing a shortage of IT personnel, demand for IT-related positions is increasing every year due to advances in automated driving technology and connectivity.
Embedded software engineers: Involved in software development and algorithm design for automated driving systems, and increasingly being hired from outside the automotive industry.
Network and Infrastructure Engineers: Network design and development related to communication infrastructure and data transmission for automated vehicles is in high demand, especially for engineers with experience in the telecommunications industry.
Security-related: Knowledge in cyber security assessment and vulnerability countermeasures for automated vehicles, where human lives are at stake, is in high demand.
App Development and Cloud Services
With the advancement of connectivity, the development of in-vehicle systems, driver assistance applications, and other services provided through contact points with users is becoming more important, and mobile application development and cloud services are being utilized.
In-house training of IT personnel
The number of companies, including major Japanese companies, that have established internal training environments for IT personnel is gradually increasing against a backdrop of a shortage of IT personnel.
Occupations
- SE(Web, open systems)
- Network and Infrastructure Engineer
- Web Producer
- SE (control, embedded systems)
- Product Engineer (hardware and software)
- Design Engineer / UI/UX Designer
- Program and Project Manager
- security
- Web/Application Engineer
- Information Systems/In-house SE
- data scientist
- EC Consultant Management
- Operation, maintenance and support
- Sales Engineer, Pre-Sales, FAE
Job Listings
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Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer & Architect
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, Network, Infrastructure engineer, Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Tokyo
- ¥10,000,000~¥15,000,000
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
This role focuses on designing, building, and evolving cloud infrastructure for autonomous driving development, data processing, and model training. You will work directly with engineering teams to turn their needs into shared infrastructure and gradually take ownership of the company’s overall cloud architecture. This is a hands-on role based in Japan. -
Autonomous Driving Simulation Validation Engineer
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, Other (Localization, QA), Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Tokyo
- ¥6,000,000~¥12,000,000
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
Validate autonomous driving software releases by translating product requirements into simulation scenarios, implementing evaluation metrics, and producing validation reports. The role uses an existing simulation platform and reviews product-defined expected behaviors and acceptance thresholds for technical soundness and testability. -
Mapping Toolchain Full-Stack Engineer
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, Product manager (Web/Application), SE(Web, OPEN), Web producer,Director, Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Tokyo
- ¥5,000,000~¥11,000,000
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
Responsible for the R&D of a high-precision, highly available autonomous driving mapping toolchain. You will automate map-making and deployment workflows in the cloud and implement unified data flow monitoring. -
Product Manager, Autonomous Driving
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, SE(Control, Embedded), Program・Project Management, Other (Localization, QA), Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Tokyo
- ¥8,000,000~¥15,000,000
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
This role involves the behavior and ODD of L4 autonomous trucks, and takes the product into logistics customers' operations and commercial use. It turns driving scenarios, system constraints, customer operating needs, and deployment requirements into product definitions that collaborate with planning and control, validation, and release, while working with customers to move from PoC toward commercial operation. -
Autonomous Driving Field Engineer
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, SE(Control, Embedded), Program・Project Management, Other (Localization, QA), Operation&maintenance,Technical support, Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Kanagawa
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
This role focuses on deploying, validating, troubleshooting, and supporting autonomous driving systems in real-world operational environments. The position is responsible for on-site vehicle integration, system bring-up, issue analysis, and field testing support across sensors, computing platforms, and vehicle communication systems. -
Motion Planning Algorithm Tech Lead
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Tokyo
- ¥15,000,000~¥25,000,000
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
This role leads the development of optimization-based planning algorithms for autonomous trucks. The position owns the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the planning module, with close integration across perception, prediction, control, simulation, and on-vehicle testing. -
Senior Mapping Algorithm Engineer
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Tokyo
- ¥5,500,000~¥11,000,000
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
As a core technical pillar of the team, you will lead the R&D of highly accurate, highly available, and robust unified online and offline mapping systems. Addressing key pain points in autonomous line-haul logistics and heavy-duty truck scenarios, you will build cutting-edge evolution roadmaps for LiDAR SLAM, topological representation, and Mapless/Map-lite technologies, driving the extreme engineering implementation of mapping technology for commercial vehicle mass production and large-scale deployment. -
Planning Algorithm Engineer
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, Other (Localization, QA), Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Tokyo
- ¥6,000,000~¥20,000,000
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
This role focuses on developing and deploying decision-making and planning algorithms for autonomous heavy trucks on highways and other structured roads. You will take ownership of algorithm development and engineering implementation within the Planning module, from modeling driving problems and designing strategies to system integration, evaluation, and continuous improvement. -
Data Platform Fullstack Engineer
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, Product manager (Web/Application), SE(Web, OPEN), Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Tokyo
- ¥8,000,000~¥15,000,000
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
Build the web toolchain that the entire data closed loop runs on. You'll design and deliver the platforms that annotation teams, algorithm engineers, and data operations use every day—multi-modal labeling systems, dataset management consoles, training job UIs, and simulation task dashboards—and layer in AI capabilities (VLM-assisted labeling, RAG-powered search) to make those workflows smarter. -
Software Development Engineer
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, SE(Control, Embedded), Other (Localization, QA), SE(Web, OPEN), SE(General purpose), Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Kanagawa
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
This role focuses on building reliable and scalable autonomous driving system software that bridges sensors, computing platforms, and vehicle networks. The position is responsible for developing system-level architectures, software services, and automation frameworks to improve data integrity, hardware reliability, and operational stability in real-world driving environments.
This role sits between hardware and the autonomy software stack. Its main responsibility is to ensure that real sensors and other data sources can reliably produce standardised data for downstream of the system. -
Data Closed-Loop Engineer
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, Data Analyst, Network, Infrastructure engineer, Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Tokyo
- ¥10,000,000~¥20,000,000
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
Build the data infrastructure that directly determines how fast our autonomous driving models improve. You'll own backend platform capabilities across the full data closed loop—sensor ingestion, scene mining, dataset management, cloud-scale simulation, and evaluation—so that algorithm teams can iterate faster on better data. -
Research Engineer
- Manufacturer, Manufacturer-Automotive
- IT, Product Engineer (Hard/soft)
- Tokyo
- ¥8,000,000~¥20,000,000
A Japanese deep tech startup founded in April 2024. Specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for large trucks, it aims to solve challenges faced by Japan's logistics industry, such as driver shortages, aging populations, and increasing logistics demand. Focusing on trunk line transportation using expressways, it promotes improved transport safety, operational efficiency, and reduced logistics costs through advanced AI-powered autonomous driving technologies. Through collaboration with automakers and logistics companies, it is working on the practical use of autonomous trucks and the construction of next-generation logistics infrastructure.
A Japanese deep-tech startup established in April 2024, specializing in the development of autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks. The company aims to transform Japan’s logistics industry by addressing challenges such as driver shortages, an aging workforce, and increasing freight transportation demand. Focusing on autonomous highway transportation, it develops advanced AI-powered technologies designed to improve transportation safety, operational efficiency, and logistics sustainability. Through collaboration with automotive manufacturers and logistics companies, the company is working toward the commercialization of autonomous trucking solutions and the development of next-generation automated freight transportation infrastructure in Japan.
This role focuses on advanced AI research and engineering for autonomous driving.
The core philosophy is Research for Development: identifying important problems from real-world autonomous driving systems, developing novel solutions, validating them on large-scale driving data, and driving promising ideas toward practical deployment.
Research topics may include World Models, reinforcement learning, multimodal/foundation models, online calibration, robust perception, continual learning, large-scale distributed training, generative models, and other high-impact problems in autonomous driving.
This is not a purely academic research position. Candidates are expected to conduct high-quality research while also being strong hands-on developers.
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