QA Engineer (Autonomous Driving System Evaluation / English & Japanese)

About Us

eve autonomy is a logistics startup providing "eve auto," Japan's first outdoor autonomous transport service operating at SAE Level 4. Founded in 2020 as a joint venture between Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and TIER IV, Inc., we combine the all-terrain capability of EV golf cars with autonomous driving technology to automate material transport at factories and logistics warehouses.

Beyond the vehicles themselves, we deliver a packaged RaaS (Robotics as a Service) offering that includes deployment support, a fleet management system, maintenance, and insurance. We are now in a rapid growth phase, preparing to expand to several hundred sites across Japan and overseas.

Vision | Bring color to every kind of work
"Empowering the hands of people who work." We will build a world where everyone can lead a richer, more enjoyable life filled with joy.

Mission | eve autonomy updates how things are moved in the workplace
Simpler, safer, smarter. We will create a world where moving things gets a little easier than it was yesterday.

Values | Guiding principle: "Lead with care"
Act with integrity / Own it / Be an explorer / Be the starting point / Carry the load / Be the protagonist

Role Overview

You will own the evaluation and quality assurance of the autonomous driving system on our mass-produced EVs, which are already operating at customer sites. As we scale to hundreds of locations, the conditions we must validate keep growing: weather and road surfaces, mixed traffic with people and other vehicles, and operating rules that differ by customer. In this role, you will prove through simulation and real-vehicle testing that our system keeps running safely across all of them.

You will join a Tokyo-based development team made up mainly of international members. The team works in English, while communication with other internal teams and customers is mainly in Japanese.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and manage evaluation plans aligned with project and release status
• Design test scenarios and acceptance criteria based on system and customer requirements
• Run simulation-based and desk evaluations, and operate regression testing
• Conduct real-vehicle testing at our test field and customer sites, and collect and analyze driving logs
• Isolate root causes of issues, manage defects, and drive improvements with the development team
• Automate test procedures, log analysis, and reporting using Python and other tools
• Write test procedures and evaluation reports, and standardize QA processes

Test & Development Environment (examples)

Category	Details
Languages	Python, C++ (reading level)
OS	Linux (Ubuntu)
Tools	Git, GitHub, CI/CD, simulators, issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira)
Vehicle & measurement	CAN, sensors (LiDAR, cameras, IMU, etc.), driving log analysis tools

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in testing, evaluation, or quality assurance of software or hardware products
• Experience creating test plans and test cases from requirements, executing them, and reporting results
• Work experience in a Linux environment
• Strong problem-solving skills: forming hypotheses, isolating root causes, and explaining them clearly to stakeholders
• Business-level Japanese
• Business-level English
• Japanese driver's license, or an international driving permit valid in Japan (required for real-vehicle testing)
• Currently residing in Japan with a valid work visa

Nice to Have

• Experience evaluating mobile systems such as autonomous driving, ADAS, robots, or AGVs/AMRs
• Experience with test automation, log analysis, or instrument control using Python
• Experience with scenario-based testing using simulators
• Knowledge of in-vehicle communication (e.g., CAN) and sensors (LiDAR, cameras, IMU, etc.)
• Knowledge of FMEA/FTA and functional safety (ISO 26262, ISO 3691-4, etc.)
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira) in agile development

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who resonates with our core value, "Lead with care," and can embody it through quality assurance.

Value	What it looks like as a QA Engineer
Act with integrity	Reports inconvenient test results accurately and judges quality based on facts and data
Own it	Treats issues found in the field as their own and follows them through to the root cause
Be an explorer	Learns from real-vehicle and field testing, and enjoys continuously refining test methods and automation
Be the starting point	Proposes and builds evaluation criteria and processes, even where no procedure exists yet
Carry the load	Takes on the steady, repetitive verification work others avoid, and contributes to the team
Be the protagonist	Makes confident release calls ("this quality is ready to ship") and takes pride in their evaluations

We also welcome people who listen humbly to others while acting autonomously, and who are motivated to solve real problems in logistics and autonomous material transport.

Why Join Us

• At the forefront of real-world deployment: Not R&D. You will own the quality of vehicles already running at customer sites as Japan's first Level 4 autonomous transport service.
• From software to vehicles and the field: Be involved end to end, from requirements and simulation to real-vehicle testing and post-deployment evaluation.
• Build the QA foundation: Much of our evaluation criteria, processes, and automation infrastructure is still being built, so you can shape it from the ground up.
• Use both English and Japanese: Bridge an international development team with internal teams and customers as the key person for quality.
• Ownership in a hypergrowth phase: Contribute to both the product and the organization as we expand to hundreds of sites in Japan and overseas.
• Flexible work style: Hybrid work with flextime and remote options, and a choice of Tokyo or Shizuoka as your base.

Employment Details

Employment type	Full-time, permanent
Salary	JPY 4.5M–8M per year (based on experience and skills)
Pay structure	Annual salary paid monthly. Includes fixed overtime pay for 45 hours/month; overtime beyond that is paid separately
Bonus & raises	Performance-linked bonus; annual salary review
Location	Choose Tokyo or Shizuoka (current team members work in Tokyo). Hybrid work; business trips to the test field and customer sites. Tokyo Office: H2-1, 1-1-4 Haneda Airport, Ota-ku, Tokyo / Iwata Ryuyo Office: 868-1 Onakaze, Iwata, Shizuoka
Working hours	9:00–18:00 (flextime); average overtime approx. 30 hours/month
Work style	Remote work available; reduced working hours available
Holidays & leave	Weekends and national holidays off; 120+ days off per year. Year-end/New Year, summer, paid annual, bereavement/celebration, maternity, childcare, and menstrual leave, etc.
Allowances	Commuting allowance

Selection Process

1. Document screening
2. First interview (engineers); may include a test design exercise
3. Second interview
4. Final interview
5. Offer

Interviews can be conducted in English.