3 days ago
Base Salary
$265k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and scale the full lifecycle software release strategy for autonomous vehicle software across development, integration, validation, and fleet deployment.
- Establish release gates, readiness criteria, evidence requirements, scope tracking, branch-health monitoring, and deployment status visibility.
- Lead technical triage, root-cause analysis, release-readiness reviews, and data-driven go/no-go decisions for build failures, regressions, integration issues, and release blockers.
- Manage complex hardware/software dependencies and coordinate across autonomy, vehicle software, systems test, validation, functional safety, homologation, and vehicle operations teams.
- Investigate vehicle logs, diagnostic traces, test results, and source-code changes to identify system-level integration issues.
- Define and execute automated regression strategies across Hardware-in-the-Loop, Software-in-the-Loop, and validation environments.
- Implement release tracking standards, dashboards, health metrics, change control, issue prioritization, sign-off tracking, and post-release reviews using tools such as Jira and GitLab.
- Lead the Autonomy Release Management team and mentor, develop, hire, and provide career and performance guidance to release and systems integration engineers.
- Communicate release status, build contents, changes, risks, and known issues to executive leadership and cross-functional engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field.
- At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, systems integration, build/release engineering, or technical program execution, including ownership of releases for complex, safety-critical, or highly reliable systems.
- Direct experience with autonomous driving, robotics, or advanced driver-assistance systems and vehicle software and hardware/software management across fleet platforms.
- Technical understanding of software development lifecycle practices, CI/CD pipelines, system integration testing, Git, and software branching strategies.
- Ability to interpret software changes and merge requests, identify integration challenges, and participate in high-level system architecture discussions.
- Strong communication, negotiation, problem-solving, trade-off decision-making, and cross-functional influence skills, including executive communication.
- Experience as a people manager, technical team lead, engineering manager, or equivalent technical leadership role involving hiring, coaching, performance feedback, career development, or resource planning.
- Preferred experience with Python, C++, or Shell scripting in Linux-based embedded environments for release automation and tooling.
- Preferred hands-on experience integrating and validating autonomous vehicle sensor and compute hardware in Hardware-in-the-Loop and Software-in-the-Loop environments.
- Preferred experience using AI-assisted developer tools for release workflows, change-log generation, and failure analysis.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits are available to eligible full-time and part-time employees and their dependents, including 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 begins on the first day of employment; part-time employee coverage begins on the first of the month following 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.