Senior Virtual Vehicle Integration Engineer

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity RSUs

Health coverage

Retirement savings

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is recruiting for a role that oversees how embedded controller software enters simulation and remains integrated with vehicle models. You will define interfaces, ensure consistency, and guide multiple teams toward a common simulation-ready standard.

The position requires strong C/Python, build-system expertise, and CI/CD ownership, with opportunities to impact the broader software stack across the joint venture.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• 5+ years in embedded automotive software or equivalent record.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to drive a technical standard to adoption across teams you did not belong to.

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 CI process; document onboarding and mentor engineers.

Skills

C programming

Python programming

CI/CD ownership

Firmware build

Education

BS/MS in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering

Tools

Code generators

Release tooling

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is recruiting for a role that oversees how embedded controller software enters simulation and remains integrated with vehicle models. You will define interfaces, ensure consistency, and guide multiple teams toward a common simulation-ready standard.

The position requires strong C/Python, build-system expertise, and CI/CD ownership, with opportunities to impact the broader software stack across the joint venture.