Overview
Who we are
Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.
An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company- delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.
To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this positionat this time.
This position is based in Plano, TX.
At TFS, we’re embarking on a technology transformation journey, creating next generation products and platforms. These products enable TFS to provide a best-in-class experience to ourcustomers and partnersand position us to rapidly scale to realize our vision of mobility for all by enabling freedom of movement for everyone.
We are seeking aLeadGenAIDevelopertodesign and lead cloud-native architectures on AWS that power GenAI applications and LLM-based systems. The Lead GenAI Developer willbuild ingestion pipelines, integrate vector databases, operate MCP servers and serverless components, and drive prompt engineering andproductionLLM usage.
The expectation is as aLeadyou will be hands-on and driving the delivery of critical business initiatives.
Key Responsibilities Include:
Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure:Design scalable, secure AWS architectures (VPCs, IAM, networking, S3, EKS/ECS/Fargate, Lambda) and manage infrastructure usingIaC(Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD, and observability tooling.
LLM & GenAI Platforms:Lead integration of API-based and self-hosted LLMs, implement RAG solutions,optimizeinference cost/performance, and operate MCP servers and model-serving infrastructure.
Vector Databases & Retrieval Pipelines:Implement andmaintainvector stores (OpenSearch, Pinecone, Milvus,Qdrant) and design efficient similarity search, retrieval workflows, and indexing strategies.
Data Ingestion & Processing Pipelines:Build robust ETL/ELT and document ingestion systems—batch and streaming—including data transformation, cleaning, metadata extraction, and embedding generation.
Python Development & AI Tooling:Build core backend components in Python, leveragingLangChain,LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, and related tooling.
Security, Governance & Cross-Functional Leadership:Enforce data privacy,secretsmanagement, RBAC, and cost governance best practices while collaborating across teams, mentoring engineers, andmaintainingoperational runbooks.
Strong Python and AWSexpertise, including Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, SageMaker (or similar), plus Docker and Kubernetes.
Proficient withIaCand delivery tooling, including Terraform/CloudFormation,GitOps, and CI pipelines.
Experience with model-serving infrastructure, such as Amazon SageMaker, NVIDIA Triton, Ray Serve, or similar platforms.
Hands-on experience with GenAI libraries and frameworks, includingLangChain,LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, and OpenAI APIs.
Deep operationalexpertisewith vector databases, such as Pinecone, Milvus,Weaviate, orQdrant.
During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities.
A few highlights include:
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Belonging at Toyota
Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10+ different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members’ efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong.
Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.
Have a question, need assistance with your application or do you require any special accommodations? Please send an email to talent.acquisition@toyota.com.
