Senior Software Engineer, Onboard AI Model Deployment

Rivian; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, dental, vision insurance

Job summary

Rivian in Palo Alto, CA is seeking a software engineer specializing in safety-critical self-driving software to design, develop, and deploy software for core autonomous features, including architecture analysis and verification.

You will collaborate with perception model teams, optimize onboard software, build tools for testing, and participate in code reviews across a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing production-grade software.
• Strong C++ programming skills.
• Experience in automotive or robotics software development.
• Experience working on heterogeneous systems with various types of hardware accelerators (GPU, ISP, Encoder, etc.).
• Experience with libraries for hardware accelerators (CUDA, TensorRT, OpenCL, etc.).
• Team player with great communication skills to drive cross-functional efforts in a fast-paced development environment.
• Passionately motivated to take ideas from R&D phase to a product.
• Software Development life cycle experience: from requirements gathering through to implementation and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Take charge of optimizing, testing, and enhancing onboard software that runs Rivian's Perception models that underpin all self-driving features.
• Develop necessary tools to support development, debugging, and testing.
• Assist in software-design and code reviews while assisting other developers on technical issues, design choices, and decision making.
• Analysis of requirements, architecture, design, development, code review, quality assurance, and deployment of entire software engineering life cycle.
• Coordinate with Perception model development and cross-functional teams to enable and support onboard model deployment/integration.

Skills

C++

Team communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Software development life cycle

Problem solving

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

CUDA

TensorRT

OpenCL

GPU hardware

ISP / hardware accelerators

Job description

Rivian in Palo Alto, CA is seeking a software engineer specializing in safety-critical self-driving software to design, develop, and deploy software for core autonomous features, including architecture analysis and verification.

You will collaborate with perception model teams, optimize onboard software, build tools for testing, and participate in code reviews across a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.