Jobs at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies, LLC

Develop and optimize algorithms for EV battery management, thermal controls, charging, and high-voltage power distribution. Responsibilities include battery state estimation, power and energy budgeting, requirements development, software test case creation, automated testing across unit, MIL, SIL, HIL, pack, and vehicle environments, simulation, fleet-data analysis, and collaboration with vehicle systems, controls, testing, and cell engineering teams.

Develops functional safety requirements, analyses, and software architectures for automotive application and platform software. Leads ASIL decomposition, freedom-from-interference and dependent failure analyses, derives safety measures, supports hardware-software interfaces, and develops end-to-end safety tests. Collaborates with vehicle, hardware, software, systems, and testing teams across multiple vehicle programs and variants.

Develop and integrate foundational embedded platform software for vehicle control boards, including drivers, operating systems, middleware, power management, diagnostics, resets, occupancy detection, and OTA updates. Collaborate with hardware and application teams on board design, bring-up, validation, and production deployment. The role requires strong C programming, RTOS expertise, microcontroller development, multi-threaded and multi-core programming, embedded debugging, and sensor-input systems experience.

Own the architecture, performance, numerical robustness, and reproducibility of a deterministic C++ vehicle physics simulation engine. Develop multi-fidelity simulation, vehicle-dynamics and subsystem models, co-simulation interfaces, and continuous-integration regression standards. Set technical direction, document architecture, preserve validated results, and mentor engineers.

Own the end-to-end BSP integration, automated testing, HIL validation, and release lifecycle for automotive connectivity and infotainment platforms. Lead hardware bring-up, test planning, regression analysis, root-cause investigations, integration decisions, and production release gates. Mentor engineers, review code and test strategies, establish HAL interface contracts, and coordinate cross-functional readiness reviews. The role requires deep embedded Linux, kernel, driver, Yocto, C, Python, and automotive connectivity testing expertise.

Develop and maintain privacy-critical services and infrastructure for connected vehicles. Implement privacy standards, personal-data protections, and privacy-enhancing technologies while supporting the company’s privacy roadmap. Collaborate with product security and software engineering teams, conduct threat modeling and privacy risk assessments, mitigate vulnerabilities, and ensure compliance with automotive cybersecurity and data privacy standards including ISO 21434, GDPR, and CCPA/CPRA.

Lead software qualification planning and reporting across SIL and HIL environments. Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks, analyze failures, track quality metrics, support release sign-off, and drive corrective actions with developers. Present quality status and risks to leadership while mentoring test automation engineers and coordinating test coverage across automated environments.

Perform functional safety analysis for automotive application and platform software. Derive safety requirements, develop safe software architectures, conduct FTA and FMEA, perform ASIL decomposition and interference analyses, and define safety measures. Support HSI, coding guidelines, tool qualification, fault-injection testing, and software verification and validation across ECU programs. Collaborate with hardware, systems, software development, and testing teams while documenting requirements, architecture, analyses, and validation activities.

Leads technical program planning and execution for the Diagnostics Organization across onboard and enhanced diagnostics, testing, software, calibration, and automation teams. Translates priorities into milestones, release plans, dependencies, and ownership; manages risks, blockers, scope decisions, and cross-functional coordination. Maintains Jira plans, dashboards, schedules, and leadership updates while tracking diagnostic deliverables across software, factory, field, and OTA releases.

Own the end-to-end BSP integration, testing, and release lifecycle for automotive connectivity and infotainment platforms. Lead hardware bring-up, HIL testing, automated regression infrastructure, test planning, release gates, root-cause analysis, and system-level debugging across hardware revisions. Define platform interface contracts, guide cross-team technical decisions, review test strategies and code, represent risks to leadership, and mentor integration engineers. The role requires extensive embedded Linux, kernel, driver, Yocto, C, Python, and automotive connectivity expertise.

Own vehicle-level mechatronic architecture from concept through production, including ECU allocation, power distribution, sensors, actuators, packaging, and trade studies. Build physics-based models, meta-models, and AI-assisted engineering tooling using quantified cost, mass, range, reliability, and manufacturability analysis. Lead vehicle-level STPA, model correlation, architecture decisions, cross-functional alignment, technical standards, and mentorship across Rivian, Volkswagen, and partner teams.

Develops and validates embedded software for battery and energy management systems across low- and high-voltage vehicle systems. Responsibilities include implementing power distribution, fault detection, thermal management, state estimation, and control features; designing reliable software architectures; creating automated unit, SIL, and HIL tests; participating in code reviews; and collaborating cross-functionally to meet safety, reliability, and validation goals.

Own diagnostic software testing and integration across vehicle subsystems, simulation environments, hardware-in-the-loop benches, and production vehicles. Develop automated Python and Pytest test cases, execute regression and vehicle-level testing, perform physical fault injection, analyze logged data, and troubleshoot root causes with software and development teams. The role also defines requirements-traced test cases and streamlines testing across software, hardware, and vehicle environments.

Owns functional safety architecture and strategy for propulsion, dynamics, and chassis systems across multiple vehicle programs. Leads complex HARA, FTA, FMEA, DFA, dependent-failure, ASIL decomposition, and safety validation activities. Defines requirements structures, traceability, FTTI budgets, safe states, and production sign-off evidence. Coordinates with suppliers, assessors, executives, and cross-functional engineering teams while mentoring safety engineers and improving analysis methodologies, tooling, and AI-assisted workflows in accordance with ISO 26262.

Develop and maintain automated functional safety test frameworks for LabCar, vehicle, and HIL environments. Implement fault-injection testing for steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire systems, analyze test results, and build reporting pipelines for requirement traceability and coverage. Collaborate with functional safety, systems, software, hardware, integration, and program teams to align testing with software releases and safety objectives across automotive domains.

Owns automotive EMC validation programs from test-plan development through final reporting and OEM submission. Reviews test data, makes pass/fail and retest dispositions, leads failure analysis, and represents the company with Rivian and Volkswagen Group engineers. Oversees test setups, harness designs, laboratory execution, measurement validity, PPAP evidence, and technical direction for technicians. The role requires advanced EMC standards and equipment expertise, automotive electrical and communication systems knowledge, customer-facing judgment, documentation skills, and approximately 25% travel.

Develops and drives reliability for low-voltage automotive electronics from concept through production. Responsibilities include establishing design-for-reliability guidelines, identifying failure modes, developing validation and accelerated testing strategies, leading root-cause investigations, auditing contract manufacturers, and analyzing fleet and field data. The role requires expertise in electronics reliability, FMEA, statistical reliability analysis, failure mechanisms, thermal management, interconnects, and failure-analysis techniques.

Design, deploy, and maintain global data platform infrastructure with emphasis on multi-region Databricks orchestration. Lead system architecture, optimize Databricks (Delta, Spark, Unity Catalog), implement IaC with Terraform, build CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot platform issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet technical, governance, and performance requirements.

Contribute to customer-facing infotainment, mobile, and connectivity software for Rivian vehicles. Responsibilities include developing and testing features, writing code in Kotlin, Java, C++, or Python, debugging issues, collaborating with product and design teams, and presenting progress. Potential projects include Android Automotive applications, platform software, wireless and telematics integration, 3D graphics, and automated integration testing.

Work on backend services, distributed systems, connectivity infrastructure, and integration software connecting vehicles, mobile apps, and cloud platforms. Responsibilities include developing and testing software in Python, Go, C++, or Java; contributing to event-driven systems, AWS cloud infrastructure, test automation, validation, code reviews, debugging, documentation, and project presentations.