IT jobs and career trends in the automotive industry

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.

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  • Project Manager

    • IT, Software platform
    • IT, Program・Project Management
    • Tokyo
    • ¥7,000,000~¥10,000,000

    The company provides high-performance graphics and AI processing solutions and is a leader in automotive, robotics, entertainment, and other fields. smart and immersive experiences.

    Image Recognition Related Developments

    Details.

  • Business Improvement Project Promotion Staff (Business Strategy Group, Business Reform Department)

    • OTHERS, Real Estate, Parking, Transportation, Trafic
    • Executive Management, Business planning・Business management, Network, Infrastructure engineer
    • Tokyo
    • ¥5,500,000~¥7,000,000

    As an infrastructure company that supports urban mobility, we are developing an overwhelmingly large parking network in Japan and abroad. In addition, the company is expanding new mobility services such as ride-sharing and car-sharing, building a next-generation mobility infrastructure that connects people and cities, and developing various businesses such as car rentals and related financial services.
    In addition to its stable business foundation, the company is actively developing new services utilizing digital technology, and sustainable growth is expected. The company is expanding not only domestically but also globally, currently operating overseas in seven countries including the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, providing an environment where you can be involved in large-scale challenges. We are currently expanding overseas in seven countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, providing an environment in which you can be involved in large-scale challenges.

    In order to expand and promote our business, we are entrusting you with identifying issues and making improvements to our existing operation scheme.

    Details.

  • MaaS Business Development

    • IT, Software platform
    • IT, Program・Project Management, Business Development & Strategy
    • Tokyo
    • ¥5,000,000~¥10,000,000

    A tech company that provides mobility solutions to help solve urban transportation issues and revitalize local communities, offering proposal-based services utilizing transportation data for B2B and public agencies.

    Identifies issues through interviews with public bodies and private companies, and conducts proposal and project formation from business conception by utilizing MaaS products and partner's assets.

    Details.

  • Embedded Software Development Engineer [Leader Class

    • Manufacturer, Automotive Parts
    • IT, SE(Control, Embedded)
    • ¥6,000,000~¥8,000,000

    SOLIZE is a Japanese engineering solutions company offering a wide range of services including 3D CAD/CAE, Model Based Development (MBD), and 3D printing. SOLIZE's strengths include precise and flexible 3D printing technology and efficient development support using engineering data. SOLIZE's strengths include precise and flexible 3D printing technology and efficient development support using engineering data, and its customers include many leading Japanese and international manufacturers. SOLIZE also has offices in India and China to meet global customer needs.

    The company's offices are located both domestically and internationally, centered in Tokyo (headquarters), with branch offices in Osaka, Tochigi, Hamamatsu, and other locations in Japan. Furthermore, SOLIZE was recently listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market, attracting industry attention as a growing technology partner.

    You will handle embedded software development work at the development sites of our customers in the manufacturing industry, with a focus on the automotive industry.

    Details.

  • Technical Project Manager _ ADAS Automatic Parking Assistance System

    • Manufacturer, Semiconductor, Electrical & Electronic, Automotive Parts, Software platform
    • IT, Program・Project Management, Business planning・Business management, Program・Project Management, Program・Project Management
    • Kanagawa
    • ¥5,800,000~¥8,500,000

    Top Global Sales | The company, a foreign automotive parts manufacturer, is expanding its software and electronics products. A German company with long-standing roots in Japan and doing business around the world, it has a diverse workforce and a working environment with a turnover rate of 1%. 2024 April, a new R&D facility will be completed and the company is working to develop further advanced technologies.

    In the ADAS Division, We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to join our team as a Technical Project Manager in the ADAS Division.

    The company, a foreign automotive parts manufacturer, is expanding its software and electronics products. A German company with long-standing roots in Japan and doing business all over the world, it has a diverse workforce and a working environment with a 1% turnover rate.
    A new R&D facility has been completed and the company is working on further development of advanced technologies.

    Details.

  • Embedded Software Design

    • Manufacturer, Semiconductor
    • IT, SE(Control, Embedded)
    • Saitama
    • ¥5,000,000~¥8,000,000

    It is one of the few companies in the world that possesses power semiconductor and power supply technologies and combines these technologies to achieve the world's highest efficiency and smallest size.
    The company has strengths in power conversion and control technologies and develops and manufactures power semiconductors, power supply devices, and automotive equipment.
    In particular, the company boasts the world's top market share in regulators for motorcycles, and is also focusing on products for EVs and renewable energy. We are also expanding globally in the automotive, industrial, and energy fields, taking advantage of technologies that contribute to energy conservation and the reduction of environmental impact. We offer a full range of benefits and a flexible work schedule. Average monthly overtime is 10 hours. The company also boasts one of the best work-life balance in the industry, with a 0.9% turnover rate in the “Top 2 ranking of large companies with few people leaving
    ”.

    It is one of the few companies in the world that possesses semiconductor and power supply technologies, and by combining these technologies, has succeeded in achieving the world's highest efficiency and smallest size, making it a major company with strengths in technological synergies.
    It is a power electronics manufacturer (semiconductor manufacturer, power supply manufacturer, and in-vehicle manufacturer) that has 16 global bases and has established unique technologies.
    This position, in the electrical components division, is responsible for the development of electrical components for automobiles and motorcycles, which account for more than 50% of our sales.
    It includes ECUs for idling stop, charge control, ignition control, and other units for motorcycles, and PCUs for motor and power control, which are the fundamental control in motorcycle EVs.
    We are equipped with both internal combustion engines, which are still in high demand, and EVs, which are expected to be in high demand in the future.
    We offer a full range of benefits and a flexible work schedule. Average monthly overtime is 10 hours.
    We are ranked in the “Top 3 Large Companies with the Fewest Job Leavers” and boast one of the best work-life balance in the industry with a turnover rate of 0.9%.

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  • Sensor System Engineer

    • Manufacturer, Electrical & Electronic, Automotive Parts, Software platform
    • IT, Program・Project Management, Electrical & electronic control design, Product Engineer (Hard/soft), Program・Project Management
    • Tokyo
    • ¥7,000,000~¥10,000,000

    A major automotive supplier of technologies such as lighting, electronics, sensors and autonomous driving systems.

    Facilitate technical and project-level collaboration between Japanese OEMs and the company's electronics products, ensuring effective Support internal data exchange to drive development activities for the electronics business in the Japanese market. Support internal data exchange to drive development activities for the electronics business in the Japanese market.

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  • UX Project Management

    • Manufacturer, Semiconductor, Electrical & Electronic, Automotive Parts
    • IT, Program・Project Management
    • Tokyo
    • ¥7,000,000~¥14,000,000

    The company boasts the No. 1 market share in Japan in the automotive components industry in the areas of thermal systems, mobility systems, powertrain systems, electrification systems, and electronic systems.
    We are currently focusing on four areas [electrification, connected systems, advanced safety/automated driving, and non-vehicle businesses (FA/agriculture)].

    The company boasts the No. 1 market share in Japan in the automotive parts industry.
    We are currently focusing on four areas [electrification, connected systems, advanced safety/automated driving, and non-vehicle businesses (FA/agriculture)].
    We are aiming for comfortable and safe automated driving by incorporating "human senses" into automated driving, and are looking for people who can work together to "protect human lives and realize a society with zero traffic fatalities". We are looking for people who can work together to "save lives and realize a society with zero traffic fatalities.

    In this position, you will be responsible for UX project management.
    We are looking for someone with design management experience and UX leadership skills, as we are developing UX based development from the upstream planning stage to engineering in the process of planning new value creation and developing UX with an automobile manufacturer.





    Details.

  • Control system software development (communication, network, IoT related)

    • Manufacturer, Automotive Parts
    • IT, SE(Control, Embedded), Program・Project Management, Circuit & Mounting Design
    • Kanagawa
    • ¥6,000,000~¥9,000,000

    We are a major foreign automotive parts manufacturer. We do telematics and IVI for major automakers.

    We are a major foreign manufacturer headquartered in South Korea. We have a very strong presence in the global market, especially in the areas of consumer electronics and automotive components. With many offices around the world and one in Yokohama, Japan, the Company develops, manufactures, and markets products, and is particularly innovative in automotive components in the areas of infotainment systems, telematics, and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). This position is for control system software development as a bridge engineer at the Japanese subsidiary of LG, a large Korean multinational company with offices around the world.
    You will be responsible for software development of in-vehicle electronic devices, mainly in terms of explanation and correspondence with local staff, preparation of specifications, and progress management, in your position as a communication hub between major Japanese automobile manufacturers and the development department of our Korean headquarters.

    Details.

  • Embedded Software Engineer

    • IT, Software platform
    • IT, SE(Control, Embedded)
    • Tokyo
    • ¥8,000,000~¥10,000,000

    This company provides high-performance graphics and AI processing solutions and is a leader in automotive, robotics, entertainment, and other fields.

    We are looking for an Embedded Software Engineer who can design, implement and verify our products (LSI and IP) such as GPUs and AI processors to strengthen our development capabilities.

    Details.

  • Automatic driving/advanced driver assistance system (ACC, LKAS, TSR, map linkage function) development

    • Manufacturer, Semiconductor, Electrical & Electronic, Automotive Parts
    • IT, SE(Control, Embedded), Program・Project Management
    • Tokyo
    • ¥7,000,000~¥14,000,000

    The company boasts the No. 1 market share in Japan in the automotive components industry in the areas of thermal systems, mobility systems, powertrain systems, electrification systems, and electronic systems.
    The company is currently focusing on four areas [electrification, connected systems, advanced safety/automated driving, and non-automotive business (FA/agriculture)].

    We are the No. 2 global automotive parts manufacturer.
    Although it is a Japanese-affiliated company, it is active on a global scale with development bases in Japan and overseas. Recently, they have been actively introducing new technologies such as automated driving, electrification, and AI.

    This position will be engaged in the development of control algorithms for advanced driver assistance systems and their integration into ECUs.

    Details.

  • Functional Safety & Security Design / Process Development for ADAS Products

    • Manufacturer, Electrical & Electronic
    • IT, SE(Control, Embedded), Program・Project Management, Program・Project Management
    • Tokyo
    • ¥10,000,000~¥14,000,000

    The company boasts the No. 1 market share in Japan in the automotive components industry in the areas of thermal systems, mobility systems, powertrain systems, electrification systems, and electronic systems.
    We are currently focusing on four areas [electrification, connected systems, advanced safety/automated driving, and non-vehicle businesses (FA/agriculture)].

    The company boasts the No. 1 market share in Japan in the automotive parts industry.
    We are currently focusing on four areas [electrification, connected systems, advanced safety/automated driving, and non-vehicle businesses (FA/agriculture)].
    We are aiming for comfortable and safe automated driving by incorporating "human senses" into automated driving, and are looking for people who can work together to "protect human lives and realize a society with zero traffic fatalities". We are looking for people who can work together to "save lives and realize a society with zero traffic fatalities.

    In this position, you will lead projects as a leader or PM/manager in either functional safety design/security design/process construction for ADAS products.
    You will be responsible for development related to functional safety, security, and processes for ADAS products, which are core components in the evolution of vehicle control system technologies, such as sensing systems using melas and automated driving.

    Details.

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