Staff Data Engineer – Enterprise Analytics & AI Platform

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity RSUs

Company bonus program

Health coverage

Retirement savings

Time off

Family planning programs

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead our enterprise data and AI platform. You will design scalable data products, establish architecture standards, and solve complex problems across ingestion, transformation, and governance while remaining hands-on to guide initiatives across business domains.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to ensure AI insights are accurate, secure, and grounded in certified data, shaping both platform and engineering

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data or software engineering with expert-level SQL and Python, including advanced query design, performance tuning, data manipulation, and scalable automation.
• Modern analytics and data platform engineering with dbt and cloud data platforms (Databricks preferred), semantic modelling, data quality, governance, and lineage.
• AI & intelligent systems: hands-on experience implementing GenAI, LLM agents, or RAG architectures, with context engineering and guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Certified Data Backbone: Design and implement scalable ELT pipelines and semantic models using dbt, SQL, and Python on Databricks; own end-to-end data lifecycle from ingestion to certified datasets.
• Executive Analytics Applications: Architect a unified executive analytics portal with embedded analytics and AI-assisted insights for trusted access.
• Agentic AI & Context Engineering: Build metadata and semantic frameworks, deploy RAG pipelines, and ensure safe, compliant AI interactions with certified data.
• Cross-Functional Executive Partnership: Partner with Finance, People, Privacy, and Legal to translate priorities into scalable data products.
• Strategic Engineering Leadership: Define end-to-end engineering standards across the Enterprise Insights domain, including Terraform, CI/CD, and governance.

Skills

SQL & Python

Databricks

dbt

Data Architecture

AI & GenAI

React/Streamlit

BI Tools

CI/CD & IaC

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

Git/GitHub/GitLab

Streamlit

React

Tableau/Power BI/Hex

Qlik

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead our enterprise data and AI platform. You will design scalable data products, establish architecture standards, and solve complex problems across ingestion, transformation, and governance while remaining hands-on to guide initiatives across business domains.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to ensure AI insights are accurate, secure, and grounded in certified data, shaping both platform and engineering