Senior Manager, Vehicle Test & Development

Rivian; Wittmann (AZ); On-site; USD 153,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Paid sick leave

Insurance portfolio (life/medical/dent

401(k) Plan and ESPP

Job summary

Rivian is seeking a Senior Manager for Test and Development to lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for full vehicle and sub-system development and validation testing.

This role will operate at Rivian’s Arizona Proving Grounds and other remote sites worldwide, spanning Dynamics, Benchmarking, Powertrain, NVH, Body Controls, Chassis Durability, Homologation and more from early program through production launch.

Qualifications

• Multi-discipline engineering leadership in automotive prototype/validation.
• Strong hands-on capability across vehicle systems, electrical integration, prototype hardware, and software-enabled development.

Responsibilities

• Manage team workload, scheduling and budget; including resource allocations covering vehicles, staff, instrumentation, track scheduling and offsite logistics.
• Coordinate with facility and on-site staff to ensure available resources are aligned to team needs and are meeting usability requirements.
• Collaborate with Program, Fleet and domain / department teams to plan and optimize vehicle usage across limited assets.
• Advocate for priority where required to meet test timing.
• Manage team resources to support early program system and vehicle integration bring-up, development and troubleshooting across multiple concurrent vehicle model lines and maturity timelines, for both the T&D team and other end-users.
• Supervise team planning, preparation, execution and documentation of specific portions of the vehicle and component DVP&R using JIRA, FLOW, and Rivian proprietary tool sets.
• Support asynchronous onsite and offsite test and validation activities, including field quality investigations, pre-production and post-production software quality testing, supplier and VIP visits and demonstrations, among others.
• Develop and refine reporting and tracking tools to continually improve overall department and team efficiency; focusing on integration of emerging AI applications and in-vehicle utilities.
• Create and modify documentation including test work instructions, Rivian test specifications, and summary reports from vehicle testing projects.
• Perform subjective and objective evaluations in one or more areas of personal expertise for remote design and engineering teams.
• Travel as needed (up to 25%) to support prototype vehicles, remote validation events, environmental testing, proving-ground activity, and other high-urgency support work.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Hands-on engineering

Test & validation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Mechatronics, Aerospace, or similar engineering

Tools

Jira/Confluence

Job description

Rivian is seeking a Senior Manager for Test and Development to lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for full vehicle and sub-system development and validation testing.

This role will operate at Rivian’s Arizona Proving Grounds and other remote sites worldwide, spanning Dynamics, Benchmarking, Powertrain, NVH, Body Controls, Chassis Durability, Homologation and more from early program through production launch.