Senior GenAI Architect – Enterprise LLM & Automation

Rivian VW Group; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies seek a Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in agentic applications. You will set architecture, integrate LLMs across portfolios, and drive cognitive automation at scale.

You will shape engineering standards and partner with senior leadership to define the platform's long-term roadmap. You will mentor engineers, own the technical direction beyond your team, and influence across the company while delivering resilient, observable distributed systems

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field.
• 15+ years hands-on software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience architecting and deploying agentic applications leveraging LLMs in production at enterprise scale.
• Proven impact across company-wide or industry recognitions.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own enterprise-scale agentic systems using LLMs to automate workflows.
• Define and own enterprise LLM integration strategy across software ecosystem.
• Lead enterprise cognitive automation roadmap with senior leadership alignment.
• Champion scalable system design and company-wide engineering standards.
• Grow and elevate engineering talent across the organization.

Skills

Golang

Distributed systems

Python

Machine learning

LLMs

Executive communication

Education

Advanced degree in CS/ML (Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD)

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies seek a Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in agentic applications. You will set architecture, integrate LLMs across portfolios, and drive cognitive automation at scale.

You will shape engineering standards and partner with senior leadership to define the platform's long-term roadmap. You will mentor engineers, own the technical direction beyond your team, and influence across the company while delivering resilient, observable distributed systems