Staff AI Engineer, Enterprise AI
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies4 hours ago
Base Salary
$207k - $284k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build reusable AI tooling across agent runtimes, evaluations, skills, plugins, and agentic loops.
- Design model-portable AI tooling that supports open-source and proprietary models.
- Apply AI across code review, testing, triage, and other software development lifecycle activities.
- Lead design reviews and build reliable, observable, cost-conscious AI services and developer tools end to end.
- Build evaluations, guardrails, and monitoring for model quality, safety, and developer impact.
- Measure tooling impact through cycle time, quality, and hours returned from low-value work.
- Optimize AI workloads for speed and affordability and provide build-versus-buy recommendations.
- Build security, privacy, and auditability into AI-enabled developer tooling.
- Collaborate with DevEx, IT, Security, Compliance, Audit, and domain engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers and improve code quality, design, and engineering practices through reviews and pairing.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience for Staff level or 12+ years for Senior Staff level.
- Track record of delivering production systems in enterprise environments.
- Hands-on experience building and operating AI-native developer tools, internal platforms, or CI/CD systems in production.
- Production experience with language models and agents, including tool use, context management, and evaluation across open-source and proprietary models.
- Deep familiarity with current AI developments for software development and the judgment to identify production-ready approaches.
- Experience designing abstractions that keep tooling portable across model providers and frameworks.
- Experience collaborating across teams and influencing technical decisions without formal authority.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising quality through code and design reviews.
- Working knowledge of security, privacy, and auditability for AI-enabled developer tooling.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with engineering leaders across domains.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, annual company performance bonus eligibility, and equity in the form of RSUs for eligible full-time positions.
- Comprehensive benefits including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs.
- Benefits offerings vary by country.
- Full-time employment role.
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About Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a 2024 joint venture building software and electrical architectures for software-defined electric vehicles. It develops in-vehicle operating systems, zonal controllers, connectivity, and cloud solutions used by Rivian and Volkswagen Group brands. The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and focuses on creating a shared platform that can be integrated and licensed across multiple vehicle programs.