1 month ago
Base Salary
$207k - $258k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build the core runtime for autonomous agents, including orchestration, isolated execution, tool and skill frameworks, state and context management, model routing, policy enforcement, and tracing.
- Establish secure execution controls, including isolated workspaces, task-scoped credentials, human approval gates, network and data-access controls, and audit trails.
- Deliver agent capabilities for code generation and review, debugging, test and CI failure attribution, documentation and knowledge retrieval, and operational triage.
- Own reliability and lifecycle management for long-running agent work, including recovery, cancellation, resource controls, and escalation.
- Create evaluation sets, metrics, experiments, regression detection, and controlled rollouts for agent workflows.
- Define the technical strategy and roadmap for AI developer productivity, lead architecture across teams, communicate with engineering leadership, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated experience and impact, including substantial backend or distributed-systems work.
- Staff-level technical leadership with the ability to shape strategy, make tradeoffs, and drive ambiguous initiatives from evidence to production.
- Hands-on production experience building and operating LLM applications, agent systems, or related developer infrastructure, including tool use, orchestration, retrieval, and context management.
- Experience evaluating ML, LLM, or other nondeterministic systems through metrics or experiments and understanding statistical variance.
- Strong understanding of cost, latency, quality, and reliability tradeoffs in agent-system design.
- Strong Python programming skills plus experience with at least one of Go, Rust, C++, or TypeScript.
- Experience with evaluation harnesses, benchmark or task suites, calibrated model-graded evaluations, production experimentation, MCP or other agent-interoperability protocols, developer experience tooling, or AWS, Kubernetes, and GitLab-based CI/CD is preferred.
- Strong communication, developer empathy, self-direction, and comfort defining scope in ambiguous problem spaces.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits are available to eligible full-time and part-time employees and their spouses or domestic partners and children up to age 26.
- Benefits include paid vacation, paid sick leave, life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Eligible employees may participate in Rivian’s 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- Full-time employee coverage is effective on the first day of employment; part-time coverage begins the first of the month following 90 days of employment.
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About Rivian
Rivian designs and manufactures electric vehicles, including the R1T pickup, R1S SUV, and commercial delivery vans, selling directly to consumers and fleet operators. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Irvine, California, it operates a manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois, and is publicly traded on NASDAQ. The company also develops in-vehicle software and electrical architecture and offers charging and service support for its owners.