Vehicle Integration Engineer (Autonomous Driving AI)

Location: Tokyo, Japan. Hybrid working model with in-person collaboration, remote work, core hours, and hands-on work in vehicle workshops and labs.

Salaries are benchmarked against the market annually; no exact salary amount is provided.

Company

hirify.global builds an AI platform for autonomous driving, using embodied, end-to-end, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI to help vehicles learn from real-world experience and operate across global OEM platforms.

What you will do

• Provide hands-on technical support to automotive customers from initial integration through final validation.
• Run rapid diagnostics with customer engineering teams and identify issues in real time.
• Bridge customer vehicle integration teams and hirify.global’s internal engineering teams.
• Troubleshoot hirify.global technology independently and escalate complex or critical issues to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Build a system-level understanding of customer vehicle systems and APIs, including drive-by-wire, to guide internal engineering teams.
• Feed findings from customer vehicles back into hirify.global’s engineering teams.

Requirements

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Hands-on experience with development vehicles and practical experience in an automotive environment.
• Solid understanding of vehicle communication protocols, including CAN and Ethernet, and automotive system architectures.
• Proficiency with diagnostic and calibration tools such as CANape or similar.
• Ability to lead investigations into platform or vehicle issues with internal and customer teams.
• Excellent communication with customers and internal teams.
• Willingness to travel as required.

Nice to have

• Track record of bringing products to production.
• Comfort with the terminal and basic programming skills.
• Familiarity with customer vehicle APIs such as drive-by-wire.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with core hours and hands-on access to vehicle workshops and labs.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Meaningful equity and market-benchmarked salaries.
• Learning and development budgets for training, conferences, and growth.
• Benefits may include health and dental insurance, enhanced parental leave, retirement or pension provisions, therapy access, wellbeing partnerships, and team socials, depending on location.
• An evolving environment with significant ownership for shaping how work is done.

Hiring process

• Initial recruiter call: 30 minutes.
• Competency interview with the hiring manager: 60 minutes total.
• Deep-dive technical interviews covering technical and automotive domains: 2 hours total.
• Final value-alignment interview: 60 minutes.