Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

Full-stack Engineer

• Own the technical direction for configuration tooling, validation, and delivery infrastructure
• Translate platform architecture into a sequenced roadmap and drive it to completion across teams
• Simplify the platform by consolidating redundant mechanisms, retiring legacy pathways, and reducing coordination costs
• Design compatibility strategies for data contracts deployed to devices in the field
• Build automated enforcement for safe schema evolution
• Architect validation and release pipelines with layered checks, staged rollouts, and observability
• Serve as the senior escalation point for production configuration issues
• Lead root cause analysis during launches and field events and convert incidents into systemic prevention
• Drive alignment across firmware, cloud, diagnostics, manufacturing, and partner-brand stakeholders
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical writing standards, and decision records
• Grow mid-level engineers toward ownership
• Maintain accountability for the long-term maintenance cost of shipped systems

Staff Software Engineer, Vehicle Configuration Platform

Engineer

• Architect and develop embedded control software for vehicle management features, including state machines, arbitration logic, and vehicle-mode handling
• Review requirements and produce high-level functional specification designs with systems, integration, and platform partners
• Own features end to end within a feature-focused development model
• Integrate features on bench and vehicle across multiple ECUs and networks, resolve interface issues, and drive features to release readiness
• Develop and maintain diagnostics and diagnostic interfaces for troubleshooting, manufacturing, and service
• Support ISO 26262 safety analyses, particularly for passive-safety and vehicle-access features
• Validate features in Unit, SIL, HIL, and vehicle test environments; contribute to tuning and calibration
• Triage field and fleet issues using vehicle data and logs
• Troubleshoot functional problems across physical, electrical, network, and software domains
• Prioritize and escalate issues based on user impact, safety relevance, and program objectives
• Develop embedded software for vehicle access, central locking, security, alarm, crash response, passive safety, occupant and child presence detection, AVAS/horn, trailer detection, and steering wheel/button interfaces

Senior Controls Engineer, Body Controls

Systems Engineer

• Own end-to-end system definition for vehicle motion control features across multiple vehicle programs and software packages, focusing on Traction Control, All-Wheel Drive and Torque Vectoring
• Define logical architecture, boundary diagrams, function allocation, state machines, sequence diagrams and theory of operation
• Support development of plant models for Propulsion and Vehicle Dynamics components
• Develop and release vehicle-, system- and component-level requirements with full traceability to test cases
• Drive functional allocation decisions across zonal controllers, brake ECUs and secondary ECUs
• Define interfaces and signals for CAN FD, FlexRay and backbone Ethernet
• Serve as technical point of contact to VW Group brand engineering teams and negotiate interfaces and allocations
• Commit features to software releases and escalate risks
• Contribute to DFMEAs and ISO 26262 functional-safety work products
• Formulate DVP&R across SIL, HIL, component and vehicle levels and author automated HIL tests in Python
• Triage nightly HIL regression failures and determine release-blocker status
• Troubleshoot bench, proving-ground and fleet issues using root-cause analysis and logged data
• Prepare design-review gate packages and close open items
• Report feature status against maturity and release gates
• Interface with controls, firmware, validation, ADAS, HMI, diagnostics, homologation, functional safety and service teams
• Use AI-assisted tools to improve engineering deliverables
• Support global in-vehicle testing and validation, including winter and proving-ground events

Senior Staff Systems Engineer

• Lead the definition and decomposition of the low voltage system through collaboration with cross functional teams to define user stories, system definition, and functional requirements
• Drive implementation of the low voltage power system with a cross functional team from ideation to public release
• Support development of vehicle architecture through trade studies, proof of concept, and strategic analysis
• Develop and document requirements from feature level down to functional and component levels
• Develop test requirements for 12V battery and low voltage system characterization
• Support feature integration through board bring up, HIL testing, validation testing, and other critical implementation tasks
• Support issue resolution through data analysis and hands-on testing
• Coordinate system delivery and timing to achieve requirements and development milestones
• Develop a comprehensive DVP&R with development engineers and conduct and capture validation tests at SIL, HIL, Component, and Vehicle levels

Staff Systems Engineer, Energy Management

Program Manager

• Support recruiting operations programs for Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
• Partner with the Business Strategy and Operations and People teams
• Contribute to initiatives supporting automotive software, connectivity, AI, and related technology programs
• Perform program management responsibilities within the COO organization

Recruiting Operations Program Manager

• Lead the architecture and development of advanced automotive lighting control systems and features
• Review and refine requirements and produce high-level functional specification designs
• Develop validation strategies, plans, and feature-level calibration processes
• Create and oversee test cases and scripts for Unit, Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing
• Collaborate with controls engineers and cross-functional teams to develop and improve vehicle simulation models
• Ensure software robustness and seamless integration of new features
• Troubleshoot complex vehicle functional problems across physical, electrical, and software domains
• Oversee multiple projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to specifications while managing resources and budgets
• Prioritize and escalate issues based on user impact and program objectives
• Mentor and guide junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing

Staff Body Controls Engineer – Lighting

• Develop software in C for exterior and interior lighting systems for Rivian and VWG brand vehicles
• Implement creative features involving graphics and lighting animations for special events and releases
• Implement coding for safety and regulatory lighting requirements across North America and Europe
• Create test cases and test scripts for Unit, Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) environments
• Develop desktop-based tooling using full-stack, JavaScript, and Rust skills to visualize lighting animations
• Own lighting features end to end from design through development and testing
• Implement AI skills and automation to simplify development workflows
• Collaborate on simulation models/platforms for analyzing, optimizing, and troubleshooting vehicle systems
• Conduct design reviews and address software issues in vehicles and prototypes
• Aid in integrating features into the controller code base
• Test developed software on vehicles and assist with feature calibration
• Design diagnostic interfaces for the controller
• Contribute to engineering initiatives for electric vehicles

Embedded Software Engineer – Lighting

• Contribute to the design and implementation of a Software Application Framework for infotainment and validation systems
• Support hardware bring-up and validation of Electrical Control Units (ECUs)
• Develop test utilities and manufacturing software in C/C++ and Python
• Assist in emulating vehicle workloads to validate system behavior and power/performance characteristics
• Debug hardware and software integration issues across camera, display, audio, connectivity, and sensor subsystems
• Collect, analyze, and visualize diagnostics telemetry data for root cause analysis
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver scalable solutions

Embedded Systems Software Engineering Intern

Platform Engineer

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain applications and services supporting engineering process execution
• Own the full application lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, and support
• Build integrations and automations across the engineering toolchain
• Eliminate manual handoffs and maintain data consistency between systems
• Model, pipeline, and maintain data for process and quality reporting using Databricks
• Act as product manager for applications and automations
• Elicit and document requirements, manage backlogs and roadmaps, set scope and timing expectations, and prioritize with stakeholders
• Collaborate with engineering teams, process owners, and leadership across Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
• Translate process intent into technical implementation
• Manage AWS and Databricks resources and GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain reliability, security, and cost efficiency
• Document solutions and keep tools and automations maintainable

Senior Data and Platform Engineer

• Build and lead the ECU sustaining engineering and operations team across Zonal, Battery, Infotainment, Connectivity, and vehicle access ECUs
• Develop and implement plant/field triage processes across brand partners
• Define and scale the sustaining operating model, including process definition, tooling, and resource planning
• Own engineering service providers and contract manufacturing partners delivering post-ramp design, validation, qualification, and failure analysis
• Define statements of work, deliverables, capacity, and spend, and hold partners accountable to quality and schedule
• Drive uninterrupted supply from build readiness through mass production through capacity and ramp planning, shortage/EOL/single-source risk mitigation, and design refresh and ECO decisions
• Own RMA and change-management systems and drive root cause to closure
• Own ECU portfolio engineering change control, including ECO, ECR, deviation workflows, review boards, document control, and configuration traceability
• Lead escalations with contract manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers, including containment, rework, deviation decisions, corrective action verification, and executive escalation
• Serve as the sustaining interface to Design Engineering, Quality, Service, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Brand program teams
• Establish and report sustaining KPIs including field PPM, RMA volume and forecast, failure analysis throughput, NTF rate, change cycle time, and cost of poor quality
• Convert field and plant learnings into design, test, process, supplier, and upstream NPI improvements

Senior Manager, Sustaining Engineering – Operations Technical Program Management

Computer Vision Engineer

• Design, develop, implement, and integrate advanced Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence features
• Analyze and optimize vision and AI pipelines for real-time performance on CPU, GPU, NPU, and other hardware accelerators
• Architect efficient software stacks for complex CV/AI workflows with minimal latency and high power efficiency
• Collaborate with product, research, and engineering teams to integrate AI models and vision-based solutions into the final product
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on algorithms for perception and inference problems
• Develop embedded systems for high-performance applications

Senior Software Engineer – Computer Vision

Application Engineer

• Perform hands-on diagnostics on prototype vehicles, capturing CAN, LIN, and Ethernet network traces and real-time data logs from ECUs and zonal controllers
• Reproduce, characterize, and isolate reported issues across interacting vehicle subsystems
• Set up and operate measurement and diagnostic equipment to gather ground-truth vehicle data
• Conduct first-pass triage of field-reported symptoms to distinguish software defects from environmental or hardware issues
• Reproduce and characterize issues on target vehicles and test benches
• Document technical findings, logs, and reproduction steps in clear hand-off reports for development teams
• Log and update technical tickets in Jira, keeping status and evidence current
• Travel to customer and partner sites for on-site diagnostics and integration support

Field Application Engineer

Product Manager

• Lead Rivian mobile app initiatives from strategy and roadmap through definition and delivery
• Own core app experiences including home and vehicle status, remote commands, onboarding, account setup, notifications, and alerts
• Own information architecture, navigation, and interaction patterns to ensure app coherence
• Partner with mobile platform and vehicle software teams to improve launch time, command latency, reliability, crash-free rate, and vehicle wake behavior
• Deliver coherent end-to-end features across mobile and vehicle experiences
• Work within the mobile platform architecture and release model with platform, cloud, and domain product leads
• Take features from ideation to release through requirements, user stories, design and engineering collaboration
• Use owner feedback, app analytics, app store and support signals, and third-party quality data to inform decisions
• Define success metrics for shipped features
• Partner across vehicle software, cloud services, identity and profiles, charging, and service teams

Senior Product Manager, Mobile App

Designer

• Develop detailed design verification and characterization test plans and requirements for ECU programs
• Execute characterization testing according to project milestones
• Own test coverage reports and analysis
• Perform IC- and PCBA-level bench characterization of power, interfaces, RF, thermal behavior, protection, and fault behavior
• Characterize high-speed camera, display, USB, PCIe, Automotive Ethernet, and debug interfaces
• Characterize conducted RF performance of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE, cellular, UWB, NFC, and GNSS radios
• Lead power integrity and coexistence/desense characterization for InfoConn ECUs
• Provide early design feedback on testability, test point access, and instrumentation hooks
• Support creation and presentation of Design for Testability reports
• Communicate characterization status to upper management and cross-functional teams
• Write Python automation scripts and instrumentation drivers, using AI coding agents while owning code quality and validation
• Use AI tooling to analyze characterization datasets and produce design or test recommendations
• Work with software engineers to flash, test, and troubleshoot firmware
• Root-cause non-compliance test results and drive cross-functional findings to closure

Senior Electronics Design and Characterization Engineer – InfoConn

Solutions Engineer

• Lead automated test solution development for zonal and BMS ECUs from requirements through deployment
• Design and build automated test equipment for high-channel-count I/O, power switching, load emulation, diagnostics, and current sensing
• Design and build battery-management test equipment for cell voltage measurement, balancing, pack current sensing, and cell-monitoring links
• Define testing strategies with electronics, power electronics, and BMS design teams
• Provide system requirements covering channel counts, load budgets, switching topology, measurement uncertainty, high-voltage safety, and fixture design
• Develop Python test sequences using the standard automation framework and AI coding agents while owning code quality and validation
• Integrate firmware, hardware, and software, including DUT bring-up, bootloaders, flashing, UDS diagnostics, calibration, production test modes, and instrument control
• Implement fault-injection coverage and verify ECU diagnostic responses
• Build reliability-lab and high-volume manufacturing test solutions
• Document test cases, calibration procedures, operating procedures, and high-voltage safe-work procedures
• Lead deployment using GR&R, CPK, stress testing, and fault injection
• Collaborate with validation, reliability, EMC, functional safety, and product launch teams