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Staff Software Engineer, Vehicle Configuration Platform
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies. Own the technical direction for configuration tooling, validation, and delivery infrastructure .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in platform architecture, configuration tooling, and release engineering, with a strong focus on automation, validation, and cross-team collaboration. Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive technical initiatives to successful completion while maintaining system integrity and performance under pressure.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Platform OwnershipSerialization Formats (Protocol Buffers)Python ProgrammingCI/CD and Release EngineeringAutomotive or Embedded Domain Experience
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringSchema DesignBuild System (Bazel)Validation Gates DesignRoot Cause AnalysisCode Generation ToolchainsTechnical WritingDecision DocumentationRust ProgrammingBackward and Forward Compatibility
Soft Skills
Excellent CommunicationMentoringCollaborationJudgment Under Pressure
Tools & Technologies
Configuration ToolingRelease PipelinesAutomation ToolsMulti-Repository Workflows
Industry Keywords
AutomotiveEmbedded SystemsUDS DiagnosticsOTA Update SystemsFactory Provisioning
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudPythonRust
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- 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
Requirements
What you’ll need- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Demonstrated ownership of a platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing system used by many teams
- Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives from proposal through delivery, including deprecating or migrating entrenched systems
- Deep experience with serialization formats such as Protocol Buffers
- Ability to design schemas with strict backward and forward compatibility guarantees for devices that cannot be force-updated
- Strong Python and working C literacy
- Real depth in a modern build system such as Bazel, including writing rules and repository-level integration
- Mature CI/CD and release engineering judgment
- Ability to design validation gates and rollout mechanics that encode correctness in automation
- Sound judgment under production pressure
- Excellent written and verbal communication with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to explain tradeoffs to non-software audiences and write durable decision documents
- Automotive or embedded domain experience preferred, including UDS diagnostics, vehicle variant coding, factory provisioning, or OTA update systems
- Rust experience preferred
- Experience in multi-company or partner-engineering environments preferred
- Experience with code generation toolchains such as protoc plugins or template-based generators preferred
- Familiarity with manifest-based multi-repository workflows preferred
Benefits
Comp & perks- Annual company performance bonus program eligibility for full-time positions
- Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), subject to board approval and applicable vesting requirements
- Comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees, including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs
- Benefits offerings vary by country