Senior Engineering Manager, Arene - UK

Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.

Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.

Arene’s goal is to open vehicle programming to everyone by simplifying vehicle software development and increasing deployment frequency without compromising safety, security and quality. This will create a whole new market of vehicle application developers who, through software, integrate a vehicle into our daily lives in novel ways. Arene aims to significantly improve how vehicles are designed and developed, and we’re working closely with Toyota to realize this goal in its next-generation vehicles.

The Arene team’s mission is to “Help Toyota improve vehicles every day”. To do so, we need to streamline software delivery and enhance operational speed in the automotive industry by developing innovative test, emulation, and simulation systems of the software being developed over our vehicle development framework. We aim to facilitate quicker software releases and elevate the overall quality of automotive solutions, maintaining an uncompromised commitment to safety. Arene’s Engineering delivers vehicle distributed cross-domain application framework, computer hardware emulation as well as simulation environments, or "virtual vehicles," to facilitate the "shift-left" approach in software development.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager in our London office, who is passionate about leading a team that is responsible for designing and building the next generation in-vehicle platform that can host applications ranging from automated driving to in-cabin experiences as well as the infrastructure used to shift the validation left of this software.

• Grow and mentor an engineering team with skill sets ranging from embedded software and systems engineering, hardware emulation of automotive hardware.
• Act as a leadership figure by engaging people and caring for them.
• Adapt established processes, frameworks to produce quality software.
• Establish a team culture to enable engineers to be successful, engaged and open to collaboration with other teams of the Arene team.
• Inspire software engineering best practices for developing high-quality, maintainable, and safe code that will be deployed to vehicles.
• Along with technical leadership, provide technical guidance to the team.
• Engage and contribute to architecture discussions to empower sound technical decision-making.
• Along with Product & System Engineering, agree on a delivery schedule and quality criteria.
• Work with the Arene Product Managers and Architects to deliver the product in an agile fashion and according to agreed requirements, budget, quality, and schedule.
• Relentlessly enforce the Arene Quality Management System and other Woven policies as well as industry regulation, leading by example and mentor the team members to operate accordingly, governing execution and promptly address internal audits non-conformities.
• Engage with TMC partners and other suppliers to integrate 3rd party solutions into the product and to also support Arene’s penetration in the local European marketplace.
• Engage and participate in strategic activities toward global vision execution.
• Define, align and track objectives and key results for the team.

• Excellent English communication and people engagement skills.
• Experienced team manager in the software engineering domain.
• Deep knowledge of extensive software development.
• Experienced in producing code.
• An empathic leader capable of understanding human beings and identify their strengths and their weaknesses.
• A leader capable of enabling a safety culture in which no compromise can be made on safety and security.
• Excellent technical abilities, capable of quickly understanding complex technical situations that usually involve people, processes and products.
• Experience working in multicultural teams and openness to various cultures.
• Excellent knowledge of project & product management practices.
• Excellent knowledge of modern software development practices in regulated products.
• Mindset for ownership, growth, and a bias for progress.
• Deep commitment to quality.

• Knowledge of quality management systems.
• Automotive and/or aeronautics Industry engineering.
• Problems and conflicts resolution.
• Security-conscious software design and implementation.
• Familiarity with the ISO 26262, SOTIF, or equivalent standards for functional safety.
• Familiarity with modern development processes and tools.

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