Software Engineer, Edge AI
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies1 day ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$116k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build native C++ or Rust services running on vehicle compute across Linux, Android, and QNX.
- Develop telemetry capabilities including signal collection, vehicle-side metrics, diagnostics, and fleet-reporting configuration tools.
- Improve high-throughput and reliable vehicle data uploads over Wi-Fi and cellular, including ADAS and camera data retrieval.
- Deploy and optimize speech recognition, synthesis, wake-word, and other ML models on vehicle NPUs against latency and accuracy targets.
- Instrument, debug, benchmark, and soak-test software on bench hardware and real vehicles to identify field issues and prevent performance regressions.
- Write design documents, review code, and work on interconnected vehicle systems.
Requirements
- Require 2–4 years of software engineering experience, or a BS/MS in a related engineering or computer science field with equivalent demonstrated building experience.
- Demonstrate experience building complex software through production work, internships, open source, hackathons, competitions, university teams, or similar projects.
- Have strong Linux and systems fundamentals covering processes, threading, concurrency, memory, inter-process communication, and filesystems.
- Be able to debug running systems with tools such as gdb, perf, and strace.
- Be proficient in C++ or Rust and capable of methodical debugging on large interconnected systems.
- Communicate clearly through design documents, tickets, and code reviews.
- Preferred qualifications include ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, TFLite, llama.cpp, ExecuTorch, or silicon vendor SDK experience; model quantization and constrained-hardware deployment; audio or speech systems; Android/AOSP internals; embedded, automotive, robotics, or real-time systems; networking and large-scale data transfer; gRPC; observability tooling; and open-source or ML infrastructure contributions.
Benefits
- Full-time employees may participate in an annual company performance bonus program and may receive equity in the form of RSUs.
- Benefits include health coverage, retirement savings, paid time off, and family planning programs, with offerings varying by country.
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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.