16 hours ago
Base Salary
$173k - $258k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and hands-on development of AI applications, services, and platforms using LLM application stacks, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation frameworks, and scalable serving.
- Define long-term architecture, reusable standards, and platforms for Applied AI systems across multiple product areas.
- Translate business opportunities into roadmaps and shipped AI products with measurable success metrics and outcomes.
- Coordinate with adjacent engineering groups to align AI patterns, reuse components, and avoid duplication.
- Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and implement secure, production-grade systems and best practices.
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Audit, and Security to establish governance, privacy, security, safety, and reporting practices.
- Promote AI literacy and adoption through demonstrations, guidance, and technical leadership.
- Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and improve code quality, reliability, observability, and AI workload cost/performance.
- Establish evaluation, guardrail, monitoring, offline-metric, online-metric, and SLO practices for AI systems.
- Optimize AI workload latency, throughput, and cost and guide make-or-buy decisions and vendor integrations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience delivering complex, production-ready systems in enterprise environments.
- Deep technical knowledge of AI/ML and hands-on experience building and deploying language-model solutions, retrieval or grounding systems, embeddings, vector search, and evaluation systems.
- Experience translating ambiguous business problems into robust AI products with measurable business impact.
- Experience defining and evolving architectures, standards, and platforms used across multiple teams.
- Strong familiarity with security, privacy, compliance, safety, and auditability for enterprise AI systems.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse teams.
- Curiosity and ability to learn and apply new technologies through hands-on development and continuous learning.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits are available to eligible full-time and part-time employees and their dependents, including paid vacation, paid sick leave, life insurance, medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, short-term disability insurance, 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 is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment.
- The role is open to location, but relocation to a center-of-gravity office is required.
- The posting is not expected to close before January 23, 2026.
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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.