2026 Engineering Associate Trainee – Service Parts & Accessories Development

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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.

To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position at this time.

Program Overview

Explore taking your career further with one of the world’s most respected brands and one of the top automotive companies in North America! Toyota is growing and leading the way through innovations designed to enhance lives through forward-thinking mobility solutions. We are looking for diverse, highly-motivated team members who want to come grow and lead the change with us.

The Service Parts & Accessories, Development (SPAD) group is looking for a highly motivated and qualified Engineering Associate. The EA is a developing technical team member who possesses a working knowledge of Toyota product development and engineering process area(s) for accessories and vehicles. EAs effectively apply technical engineering knowledge with management guidance. With clearly defined processes and procedures, EAs engage in basic problem solving and identification of alternative solutions for a specific problem or task.

Trainee opportunities are offered under one of the groups listed below each term.

• Business Operations: leads overall product offering strategy and manages the development and product launch catalog to ensure there is product-market fit.

• Product Development: overseeing the accessory and service parts planning process, including preparation, presentation, and management of a development/launch plan

• Business Strategy & Systems: business analytics, business strategy, service parts programs, and exploring opportunities for business growth in new and innovative markets.

• Development Engineering: manages design/styling, development, and testing of accessory products, including maintenance of engineering standards used to define technical specifications.

• Quality Engineering: manages pre-launch validation and post-launch sustainment of quality standards.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or related degree discipline or equivalent work experience
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Dealership/Automotive Industry experience is preferred, but not required

What you’ll be doing

• Complete manager-assigned tasks

• Manage work schedule to ensure timely completion

• Provide hands-on support to engineers – review drawings, enter data into tracking/storage software, perform research, develop documentation, etc.

• Collaborate with suppliers

• Learn “voice of the customer” mentality and apply it to daily work

• Support product & vehicle fit ups (“hands on”)

• Problem solve during development and/or after launch of accessories through root cause analysis

• Support model year-to-model year carryover verification

• Prepare documentation for discussions with Japanese counterparts

• Create product business cases and review them with management

• Support discussions with Toyota plants and manufacturing facilities

• Create and manage product development schedules

• Support project management of ongoing enterprise initiatives

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.