Digital UX Designer for Vehicle Performance Engineering

Toyota is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 350.000 people. Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing, and engineering operations.

The company is excited to be transforming into a mobility company focusing on bringing even more happiness to our customers through various mobility solutions.

Team/division description

Toyota Motor Europe R&D centre is responsible for planning, development and production support of vehicles aimed at - and locally produced for - the European market.

Within R&D, the Vehicle Performance Engineering – Vehicle UX team is responsible for ensuring a good overall UX (User Experience), by the HMI (Human-Machine Interaction) and Ergonomics (physical and cognitive) performance of vehicles, both during actual vehicle development and in research activities.

In the vehicle UX division we conduct research to collect and analyze customer behavior through a variety of qualitative and/or quantitative methods and collaborate with other functions to understand and incorporate the technical requirements into research. 

Your responsibilities

• You will be contributing to improve the experience (subjective perception, emotions, engagement) that users have with future products and doing so through research projects involving activities related to “understanding” (e.g. user research, desk research), “proposing” (e.g. interaction, service design) and “testing” (e.g. quantitative and qualitative assessment)


• You will be utilizing the driving simulator, virtual reality equipment and psychological/physiological measurement for validation of your hypothesis with user centred design


• You will be responsible for the setting and confirmation of UX &/or ergonomic targets (e.g. cockpit layout, field of view, interior roominess, ingress/egress, interface operability & visibility), proceeding evaluation using 3D CAD models, mock-ups and prototype vehicles


• Work closely with stylists, design engineers & developers to secure UX & ergonomic targets throughout the development process, playing an active role in problem solving when targets are not achieved


• Benchmark of competitor and customer solutions
  
   

Your profile

• You are fluent in English (Toyota Motor Europe’s business language), additional European language skills are an asset


• You have a master in Engineering, Industrial Design, Human Factors or User Experience 


• You are passionate about user centred design, design thinking, storytelling, and early design stages


• Experience with CATIA V5, Virtual reality, Figma, python & other digital tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign are a strong asset


• Demonstrated record of practical problem solving skills with the ability to create (physical or digital) low-tech prototype also a plus


• Open minded, with interest in different cultures and uses

You have a Toyota DNA, this means :

Courage: you are ready to let go of the easy path to reach challenging targets 

Collaboration: you are a team player, respectful and inclusive in your style and you take a customer-oriented approach

Creativity: your passion drives you to explore innovative ideas and challenge the impossible  

Curiosity: you combine imagination and fact-based observation 

Coaching: you share knowledge and feedback with your colleagues and celebrate each other’s success