Senior Autonomy Metrics Platform Engineer

Rivian Automotive; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

Competitive compensation

Benefits package from day one

Job summary

Rivian Automotive is seeking a senior metrics‑platform engineer to design, build and operate a large portion of the autonomy evaluation platform. You will connect model experiments to reliable metrics and help translate insights into model and data improvements, working with Perception, Planning and Systems teams.

This hands‑on role requires ownership through design, implementation, rollout and operation, mentoring teammates and shaping engineering practices for the Autonomy AI Platform across

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend or data‑intensive systems.
• Hands‑on software for autonomy or robotics, with evaluation workflows.
• Strong Python programming, testing, and debugging production software.
• Practical SQL skills, with AI coding tools for writing and refining queries.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD and production observability.
• Experience with Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, AWS, Docker or GitLab CI.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of a metrics‑platform area, such as the metric registry, computation services or comparison and reporting APIs.
• Design versioned metric definitions and data models for inputs, aggregation, slicing and results.
• Build distributed computation and storage paths with idempotent execution and backfills.
• Build comparison tools that expose coverage, sample sizes, uncertainty and changes in inputs.
• Partner with model developers to design evaluation experiments and analyze failure patterns.
• Integrate metrics and regression checks into replay and closed‑loop evaluation workflows and CI.
• Deliver self‑service APIs and scorecards backed by consistent definitions and results.
• Own reliability and performance for your services through testing, observability and documentation.
• Write and review production code, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Palo Alto, London and Belgrade.

Job description

Rivian Automotive is seeking a senior metrics‑platform engineer to design, build and operate a large portion of the autonomy evaluation platform. You will connect model experiments to reliable metrics and help translate insights into model and data improvements, working with Perception, Planning and Systems teams.

This hands‑on role requires ownership through design, implementation, rollout and operation, mentoring teammates and shaping engineering practices for the Autonomy AI Platform across