Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

Solutions Engineer

• Support system-level integration of vehicle features across ECUs, software baselines, and hardware releases
• Validate wake, sleep, reset, and power transition behaviors across desk-based, lab-bench/HIL, and in-vehicle environments
• Verify software behaviors in physical vehicles and identify gaps between hardware performance and design specifications
• Prepare and bring up controllers, next-generation platforms, and networked systems for integration milestones
• Coordinate and track new features and system changes through release readiness
• Investigate test findings, track dependencies, and document technical issues to drive integration-gap closure
• Execute edge-case and degraded-mode testing
• Conduct first-line triage and system-level investigations on benches, HIL environments, development vehicles, and in manufacturing
• Debug distributed vehicle interactions using logs, network traces, and ECU-level data
• Execute integration test plans covering functional behavior, sequencing, timing, fault handling, and regression risk
• Document root causes, isolate failures to software or hardware domains, and track corrective actions
• Maintain Python scripts, automated test workflows, and analysis methods for log validation and issue triage
• Improve system observability and contribute to integration processes, documentation standards, and release-readiness practices
• Collaborate with software, hardware, validation, manufacturing, and diagnostics teams as an engineering point of contact

Systems Integration Engineer

Full-stack Engineer

• Build and maintain scalable real-time streaming services ingesting, processing, transforming, and delivering vehicle, cloud, and operational data
• Design, develop, and operate Apache Flink applications and event-driven services using Apache Kafka or Redpanda
• Build streaming infrastructure for analytics, machine learning, AI applications, and real-time operational decision-making
• Design scalable event-driven architectures emphasizing throughput, low latency, resiliency, and operational simplicity
• Develop production-grade streaming applications using Java, Scala, Python, or Go
• Contribute to topic design, partitioning, checkpointing, savepoints, dead letter queues, replay strategies, and failure recovery
• Optimize streaming applications for latency, throughput, resource utilization, and operational cost
• Develop reusable platform components, SDKs, libraries, and self-service capabilities
• Support deployment and operations using Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code
• Build observability using metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting
• Monitor and troubleshoot production streaming systems
• Partner with platform, data, ML, analytics, and product teams on end-to-end real-time data solutions
• Build pipelines supporting AI/ML platforms, online feature engineering, RAG, and intelligent applications
• Participate in production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements
• Leverage AI-assisted software development tools to improve engineering productivity while maintaining quality and security standards

Software Engineer II – Streaming

Art Director

• Lead and mentor a team of Software Engineers in the development of best-in-class real-time 3D visualizations across a variety of applications, such as Rivian's 3D ADAS Visualization.
• Oversee the creation of progressive, intuitive, and reliable applications for the Rivian in-vehicle experience.
• Collaborate closely with the UX/UI Team and Studio Team to realize beautiful, cutting-edge 3D experiences.
• Manage the testing of the in-vehicle experience in the lab and in Rivian prototype vehicles, ensuring thoroughness and quality.
• Oversee the troubleshooting and resolution of issues found during testing.
• Drive research into new technologies and interfaces, fostering innovation within the team.
• Collaborate with other divisions in understanding and sharing technology roadmaps, portfolios, and intellectual property.
• Provide technical guidance and strategic direction to the team.
• Manage project timelines, resources, and deliverables for 3D infotainment features.

Technical Art Manager – Infotainment 3D

Systems Engineer

• Establish best practices for developing integrated vehicle systems, including requirements, architectures, and designs
• Hold teams accountable for overall vehicle level requirements to enable subsystem decomposition and development
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (hardware, software, etc.) to ensure system compatibility and seamless subsystem integration
• Identify and mitigate potential risks in system designs
• Communicate system risks to senior leadership to inform product plans
• Decompose the vehicle system into subsystems and ensure end-to-end functionality
• Lead system wide analysis to ensure vehicle level performance metrics are met during integration
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional subsystem teams to deliver integrated subsystems and features
• Arbitrate tradeoffs between vehicle and component-level requirements and across different domains
• Work with feature champions to align user stories and resolve conflicting requirements
• Collaborate with key stakeholders (customers, engineers, business partners and leadership) to ensure all are informed and aligned on the technical direction

Staff Vehicle Systems Engineer

Platform Engineer

• Architect and lead the development of highly scalable and sophisticated intelligent agents
• Own and drive the technical vision and long-term strategy for integrating LLMs
• Partner with product managers, engineering leaders, and senior leadership to set the strategic direction
• Take ultimate ownership of the entire development lifecycle
• Define the engineering culture and implement industry-leading standards
• Continuously research and experiment with emerging trends in machine learning
• Work closely with Machine Learning engineers, product teams, and senior leadership to gather requirements
• Share expertise and provide guidance across engineering levels

Staff Software Engineer – AI Platform

• Own the end-to-end regulatory view for a dedicated domain: from vehicle-level requirement intake through validation testing and independent sign-off, anticipating and addressing the complexities of evolving global regulations.
• Serve as the regulatory subject-matter expert for assigned domains - providing authoritative guidance to engineering and homologation stakeholders on requirement interpretation, scope, and applicability.
• Collaborate closely with software and systems engineering teams to integrate regulatory requirements proactively into the design process, minimizing compliance risk and schedule impact.
• Author and maintain Homologation Design Validation Plans (DVPs): analyze applicable regulations; identify test obligations; build step-by-step test campaigns; and coordinate execution with internal teams and external test facilities.
• Oversee regulation-to-code traceability and compliance documentation: ensure requirements are traceable to software components, and work with OEM homologation teams to compile and manage evidence for certification agencies and external labs.
• Manage change impact: assess the regulatory consequences of software design changes, create RxSWIN change evidence, and provide an independent homologation view for software releases in assigned domains.
• Contribute to team-wide initiatives that improve the scalability and quality of homologation delivery across multiple programs and markets.

Systems Integration Engineer

Software Engineer II – Streaming

Technical Art Manager – Infotainment 3D

Staff Vehicle Systems Engineer

Staff Software Engineer – AI Platform

Staff Regulatory Engineer