Senior Enterprise AI Engineer - Applied AI Systems

Rivian; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

Rivian is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of production‑grade AI solutions across manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and other internal partners. You will set technical direction, own complex domains, and raise the engineering bar with architectural leadership on language models and ML systems.

Location is open, with relocation to a center of gravity office required. You will mentor engineers, drive governance and security practices, and collaborate with

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years in software engineering delivering production-ready systems.
• Deep knowledge in AI/ML with hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and hands-on development of AI applications and platforms using LLM stacks.
• Define long-term architecture to maximize reuse, reliability, and impact across product areas.
• Partner with business sponsors to translate high-value opportunities into roadmaps and shipped products with measurable outcomes.
• Mentor engineers; improve code quality, observability, and cost/performance of AI workloads.

Skills

AI/ML

LLM applications

Architectural leadership

Stakeholder management

Production systems

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

LLM stacks

Retrieval-augmented generation

Evaluation frameworks

Job description

Rivian is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of production‑grade AI solutions across manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and other internal partners. You will set technical direction, own complex domains, and raise the engineering bar with architectural leadership on language models and ML systems.

Location is open, with relocation to a center of gravity office required. You will mentor engineers, drive governance and security practices, and collaborate with