Edge AI Engineer — Automotive Embedded C++/Rust

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking an early‑career software engineer to build native services in C++/Rust for in‑vehicle compute across Linux, Android, and QNX. You will tackle hands‑on systems problems on telemetry, data upload, and embedded inference for voice assistants, with a focus on reliability, latency, and maintaining performance budgets on constrained hardware.

You'll collaborate with a small team, write design docs, review code, and debug on real vehicles, while

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of software engineering experience or equivalent
• Strong Linux and systems fundamentals
• Proficiency in C++ or Rust
• Clear written communication in design docs, tickets, and code reviews

Responsibilities

• Design and build native services in C++/Rust that run on vehicle compute across Linux, Android, and QNX targets
• Work on telemetry platform: signal collection, metrics on-vehicle, diagnostics
• Improve vehicle data upload path with throughput and reliability optimizations over Wi‑Fi and cellular
• Deploy and optimize ML models on vehicle NPU with per‑platform latency goals
• Instrument and debug in the field and with bench hardware; defend performance budgets

Skills

Linux fundamentals

C++ or Rust

Software engineering

Debugging large systems

Written communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/EE

Tools

gdb

perf

strace

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking an early‑career software engineer to build native services in C++/Rust for in‑vehicle compute across Linux, Android, and QNX. You will tackle hands‑on systems problems on telemetry, data upload, and embedded inference for voice assistants, with a focus on reliability, latency, and maintaining performance budgets on constrained hardware.

You'll collaborate with a small team, write design docs, review code, and debug on real vehicles, while