Senior Vehicle Platform Integration Engineer

Rivian VW Group; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Health benefits

Annual bonus program

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies seeks an experienced embedded software professional to define and enforce simulation-ready standards for controller software. You will own controller interfaces, ensure complete tooling across releases, and integrate multiple controllers into a full-vehicle simulation environment.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration, debugging at the controller boundary, and mentoring engineers within embedded and software teams to adopt robust CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in embedded automotive software.
• Deep familiarity with modern embedded build systems and large firmware codebases.
• Strong C and Python, including experience integrating compiled embedded code with host-side tooling.
• CI/CD ownership, including pipelines consumed by other teams.
• Proven ability to drive and adopt technical standards across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive adoption of standards and automation that make every controller software release simulation-ready.
• Own the definition of controller interfaces to the simulated vehicle, and the tooling that keeps those definitions complete, consistent, and current across releases.
• Integrate additional vehicle controllers into the simulation and own their composition into a full-vehicle system.
• Diagnose integration defects at the controller boundary and convert findings into automated checks.
• Own the simulation gates in the embedded software continuous-integration process; document the onboarding process and mentor engineers on both sides.

Skills

C

Python

Standards adoption

Education

Electrical/Computer/Software Eng

Tools

Embedded build systems

Host-side tooling

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies seeks an experienced embedded software professional to define and enforce simulation-ready standards for controller software. You will own controller interfaces, ensure complete tooling across releases, and integrate multiple controllers into a full-vehicle simulation environment.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration, debugging at the controller boundary, and mentoring engineers within embedded and software teams to adopt robust CI/CD practices.