2 months ago
Base Salary
$265k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and document data requirements for autonomy training, development, and evaluation use cases.
- Build cross-functional decision frameworks to assess data availability, identify gaps, and prioritize fleet data collection.
- Develop fleet data-capture strategies that meet recall, precision, diversity, privacy, logging, and bandwidth requirements.
- Identify autonomy model failure modes and define targeted data-mining campaigns with ML teams.
- Define data-slicing strategies and coordinate tagging deployment with data and cloud teams.
- Curate high-fidelity datasets covering targeted ODD scenes and human driving demonstrations while filtering suboptimal behaviors.
- Provide strategic input on perception taxonomies, object and scene classifications, and related attributes.
- Define metrics for dataset health, diversity, bias, ODD representation, safety, and verification compliance.
Requirements
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 8+ years with a master’s degree in systems engineering, data strategy, or MLOps.
- Relevant experience with autonomous driving or robotics data responsibilities is preferred.
- Understanding of autonomy data requirements for perception, end-to-end models, imitation learning, and sensor-to-trajectory training lifecycles.
- Ability to build technical frameworks from the ground up and drive consensus across ML software, data and cloud infrastructure, and vehicle operations teams.
- Medium to strong programming skills in Python and at least one query language such as SQL, PL/SQL, DDL, MDX, HiveQL, SparkSQL, or Scala.
- Knowledge of privacy engineering, data privacy, security risks, and controls.
- Strong teamwork, communication, and presentation skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits are available to eligible full-time and part-time employees and covered dependents, including paid vacation, paid sick leave, medical, dental, vision, life, 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 begins on the first day of employment; part-time coverage begins the first of the month after 90 days.
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.