Senior Embedded Systems Integration Engineer – SIM/Vehicle

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

RSUs equity

Health coverage

Retirement savings

Time off

Family planning

Global benefits

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking a senior embedded software engineer to own how controllers are brought into the simulation, define interfaces, and drive their composition into a full-vehicle system.

You will collaborate across the simulation team and the embedded software organization, shipping standards others adopt and mentoring engineers on both sides. This role offers competitive compensation and equity opportunities.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• 5+ years in embedded automotive software
• Deep familiarity with modern embedded build systems and large firmware codebases.
• Strong C and Python, including experience integrating compiled embedded code with host-side tooling.
• CI/CD ownership, including pipelines consumed by other teams.
• Demonstrated ability to drive a technical standard to adoption across teams you did not belong to.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive adoption of standards and automation that make every controller software release simulation-ready.
• Own the definition of controller interfaces to the simulated vehicle, and the tooling that keeps those definitions complete, consistent, and current across releases.
• Integrate additional vehicle controllers into the simulation and own their composition into a full-vehicle system.
• Diagnose integration defects at the controller boundary and convert findings into automated checks.
• Own the simulation gates in the embedded software continuous-integration process; document the onboarding process and mentor engineers on both sides.

Skills

Embedded software

Build systems

C programming

Python programming

CI/CD ownership

Standards adoption

Education

Electrical/Computer/Software Eng degree

Tools

AUTOSAR interface gen

CAN/Ethernet

DBC/ARXML

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking a senior embedded software engineer to own how controllers are brought into the simulation, define interfaces, and drive their composition into a full-vehicle system.

You will collaborate across the simulation team and the embedded software organization, shipping standards others adopt and mentoring engineers on both sides. This role offers competitive compensation and equity opportunities.