Fleet Telemetry & Connectivity Systems Engineer

Rivian VW Group; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Annual bonus

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies are seeking an engineer to investigate complex fleet-scale cross-stack issues across embedded Linux, networking, firmware interfaces, and cloud-connected services in production vehicles.

You will analyze telemetry and logs, drive data-driven root cause analysis, and shape durable fixes with automated detection to prevent regressions in a fleet of 100,000+ vehicles.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years building, debugging, or operating software systems.
• Strong programming ability in Python and/or C/C++, including complex embedded code you didn’t write.
• Working knowledge of Linux and ability to learn large multi-layer systems.
• Experience with SQL and PySpark for large-scale data analysis.
• Strong analytical reasoning and written communication skills.
• Hands-on experience analyzing large-scale telemetry or log data with PySpark, Databricks, SQL or Python/pandas.
• Experience with embedded Linux internals: kernel, drivers, networking stack, and hardware interaction.
• Familiarity with CAN, Automotive Ethernet, LTE/cellular modem management.
• Familiarity with hardware diagnostic tools such as CANalyzer or oscilloscopes.
• Experience building dashboards, monitoring, or alerting for production systems or fleet health.
• Automation or scripting to accelerate investigation workflows.
• Prior work in automotive, robotics, IoT, or connected hardware products.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and root-cause cross-stack issues spanning embedded Linux, networking, firmware interfaces, and cloud-connected services on production vehicles.
• Analyze fleet telemetry and logs (SQL, PySpark, Databricks) to detect issues, quantify scope and impact, and validate fixes in the field.
• Gate software releases with fleet data: define health criteria, monitor rollouts, and inform go/no-go decisions for software on 100,000+ vehicles.
• Build and maintain automated telemetry monitoring, dashboards, and alerting for fleet health patterns.
• Drive data-driven root cause analysis end-to-end: form hypotheses, design controlled experiments, collect evidence, document findings.
• Perform on-vehicle testing and diagnostic work to reproduce and validate behavior.
• Partner with firmware, platform, cloud, and vendor teams to trace issues across boundaries and land durable fixes.
• Communicate findings in clear written investigation summaries accessible to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Embedded Linux

SQL

PySpark

Data analysis

Written communication

Fleet telemetry

Education

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

Tools

Perf

ftrace

strace

tcpdump

Wireshark

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies are seeking an engineer to investigate complex fleet-scale cross-stack issues across embedded Linux, networking, firmware interfaces, and cloud-connected services in production vehicles.

You will analyze telemetry and logs, drive data-driven root cause analysis, and shape durable fixes with automated detection to prevent regressions in a fleet of 100,000+ vehicles.