Sr Controls Engineer, Body Controls
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies3 days ago
Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$108k - $143k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop embedded control software for vehicle management and body-control features, including state machines, arbitration logic, and vehicle-mode handling.
- Review requirements and produce high-level functional specifications with systems, integration, and platform partners.
- Own features end to end within a feature-focused development model.
- Integrate features across multiple ECUs and networks on benches and vehicles, resolve interface issues, and drive releases.
- Develop and maintain diagnostics and diagnostic interfaces for troubleshooting, manufacturing, and service.
- Support ISO 26262 safety analyses for passive-safety and vehicle-access features.
- Validate features in Unit, SIL, HIL, and vehicle test environments, including tuning, calibration, and issue triage using vehicle data and logs.
- Troubleshoot functional issues across physical, electrical, network, and software domains and prioritize issues based on user impact, safety relevance, and program objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer, software engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience with automotive or embedded software systems.
- Expertise in C and Python.
- Strong understanding of real-time operating systems, task scheduling, memory management, MPU protection, interrupts, and timing analysis.
- Experience with CAN/CAN-FD, LIN, Automotive Ethernet, UDS, DIDs/DTCs, diagnostic routines, and related tools.
- Experience with safety-relevant automotive software and functional safety methods including ISO 26262, FMEA, and fault trees.
- Understanding of hardware components relevant to body controls.
- Experience with requirements management systems such as JAMA or Flow.
- Ability to travel up to 10%.
- Preferred experience includes embedded test automation, SIL frameworks, HIL/VHIL test benches, automated regression, CI integration, AI-assisted software development tools and agents, test reporting, and data pipelines.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, annual company performance bonus eligibility, and equity in the form of RSUs; bonus payments are discretionary and not guaranteed.
- Comprehensive benefits including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs, with offerings varying by country.
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.