Senior Software Engineer, Perception Autonomy

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

Job summary

Rivian seeks a Software Engineer specializing in safety-critical self-driving software to design, develop, and deploy software that underpins core autonomous features. Based in Palo Alto, CA, you will contribute across development, architecture analysis, and deployment of robust, reliable self-driving solutions.

You will collaborate with Perception teams and cross-functional partners to optimize onboard software, build tooling, perform code reviews, and drive the full software lifecycle from

Qualifications

• B.S. / M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 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 working 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++ programming

Automotive software

Robotics software

Heterogeneous systems

CUDA

TensorRT

OpenCL

Team collaboration

Software lifecycle

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

CUDA

TensorRT

OpenCL

Job description

Rivian seeks a Software Engineer specializing in safety-critical self-driving software to design, develop, and deploy software that underpins core autonomous features. Based in Palo Alto, CA, you will contribute across development, architecture analysis, and deployment of robust, reliable self-driving solutions.

You will collaborate with Perception teams and cross-functional partners to optimize onboard software, build tooling, perform code reviews, and drive the full software lifecycle from