About Rivian
Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.
As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.
Role Summary
We are seeking a high-impact Senior Software/Data Engineer to join the Autonomy Data, Tools and ML Infra Team to build and enhance our Evaluation Platform.
We use this mission-critical platform to quantify and validate the performance of our autonomy system, using both a simulation environment and real data from vehicles. We perform this evaluation as part of the general software development process and also before releasing software to the customer vehicle fleet in over-the-air updates.
We are expanding this team to improve our evaluation capability, directly supporting the rapid growth of the number of Rivian vehicles on the road and the launch of new, sophisticated autonomy features.
Your insights and platform improvements will be instrumental in driving the performance roadmap across the entire Autonomy team, providing the single source of truth for system readiness and fleet deployment. Your work will directly influence the readiness of our software for millions of miles of real-world driving.
Responsibilities
- Build reliable tooling components (Python packages, Docker images) and pipelines (Gitlab CI, Databricks) that can be used across the Autonomy team to standardize metrics and store them in a common location.
- Gain a deep understanding of how our performance metrics are calculated, ensuring that pairs of leading/lagging metrics use a consistent methodology supported by automated testing.
- Propose, design and implement new metrics to close gaps in our evaluation process.
- Contribute to the continuous development of tooling (e.g., Cursor and MCP servers) to increase developer velocity and integrate with Rivian systems.
- Collaborate closely with colleagues in our offices in California and Serbia, acting as a key technical liaison to gather requirements and drive adoption of the platform.
- Demonstrate strong organizational skills to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality results.
- Support the team’s on-call rotation for any operationally critical systems.
Pay Disclosure
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a significant focus on data engineering.
- Strong experience in Python for backend services, data processing, and cloud tooling.
- Proficiency in building, testing, and optimizing production-grade data pipelines using tools such as Databricks, Spark (PySpark/Scala), and SQL.
- Experience implementing and managing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI) and using Docker for containerization.
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining systems using core AWS services (e.g., S3, EC2, Lambda) and understanding of cloud-native architecture.
- Familiarity with autonomous systems development (e.g., perception, planning, control) or relevant domains such as robotics, simulation, or verification/validation.
- Proven ability to debug and root-cause issues systematically.
Equal Opportunity
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