Engineering Manager, SRE – AV Fleet, Japan

Location: Yokohama, Japan; hybrid role with regular onsite presence and work with the team and fleet

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous vehicle technology combining advanced AI, vehicle software, infrastructure, and real-world fleet operations.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, hire, and develop the Japan Fleet Reliability SRE team of approximately 5–10 engineers.
• Own fleet reliability, safety, availability, incident response, escalation coverage, and operational readiness.
• Define and improve observability, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, release safety, automation, remote diagnostics, and fleet tooling.
• Deliver readiness for new vehicle variants and capabilities, including commissioning, validation, rollout, field support, and handover.
• Build tools, services, and APIs that improve fleet visibility, health monitoring, configuration, diagnosis, and operational control.
• Represent Japan’s operational needs in global Vehicle Software engineering priorities and collaborate with fleet, safety, infrastructure, and programme teams.

Requirements

• Engineering-management experience with direct accountability for a software, SRE, platform, systems, or similarly technical team.
• Experience leading and developing a team of approximately 5–10 engineers or a comparably complex multidisciplinary group.
• Strong practical knowledge of reliability engineering, observability, incident management, release and change safety, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Current technical credibility in design reviews, debugging, automation, code reviews, and production systems, plus experience owning roadmaps, staffing, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.
• Experience hiring, coaching, developing, and managing performance while creating clarity, accountability, and psychological safety.
• Permission to work in Japan or eligibility for employer-supported immigration where applicable; willingness to join an engineering escalation rotation and work onsite regularly in the Yokohama area.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, automotive software, embedded or edge computing, safety-critical systems, or large physical fleets.
• Vehicle commissioning, compute or sensor integration, networking, diagnostics, data offload, or over-the-air deployment experience.
• Linux, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, telemetry pipelines, infrastructure as code, and modern observability tooling.
• Experience building internal automation or platforms with Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or a comparable language.
• Experience collaborating with Japanese automotive manufacturers, suppliers, or mobility operators in a global engineering organisation.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working policy combining time in offices and workshops with time working from home.
• People leadership, blameless learning, measurable outcomes, direct feedback, and pragmatic engineering are prioritised.
• Occasional work outside standard office hours may be required for critical operational events, along with domestic or international travel.
• Competitive compensation, equity, and locally applicable benefits.
• Work on reliability challenges spanning AI, software, infrastructure, vehicle systems, and real-world operations.

Hiring process

• Specific working arrangements and the final immigration plan are discussed during the hiring process.
• CV information may be used to prefill the application form.