Vehicle Systems Integration & Validation Engineer

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking a Systems Integration Engineer in Palo Alto to drive system-level integration of vehicle features across ECUs, software baselines, and hardware releases.

You will work with software, hardware, validation, manufacturing, and diagnostics teams to bring new capabilities into stable vehicle execution, including wake/sleep handling, energy management, ECU interactions, and state orchestration. Strong debugging and scripting skills are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in automotive systems integration, embedded systems, validation, or a closely related discipline.
• Strong understanding of embedded software development lifecycles (SDLC) and vehicle functions within automotive E/E architectures.
• Hands-on experience debugging vehicle systems using CANoe, CANalyzer, Wireshark, or equivalent trace and analysis tools.
• Direct experience with CAN, LIN, Automotive Ethernet, and basic ECU-level interactions.
• Experience executing test cases and validating features across bench, HIL, or physical vehicle environments.
• Ability to utilize Python for log parsing and basic test scripting, or MATLAB.
• Strong communication skills and problem-solving ability.

Responsibilities

• System Integration: Support system-level integration of vehicle features across ECUs, software baselines, and hardware releases.
• Environment Split: Validate wake/sleep/power transition scenarios with data triage, lab-bench/HIL tests, and in-vehicle testing.
• Hardware-to-Design Alignment: Verify software behaviors in the physical vehicle and log gaps between hardware and design.
• Platform Readiness: Prepare controllers, next-gen platforms, and networked systems for milestones.
• Technical Collaboration: Act as engineering contact for software/hardware/validation/diagnostics teams.
• Feature Tracking: Coordinate and track new features from development through release.
• Issue Closure: Drive closure of integration gaps via investigations and documentation.
• Edge Case Testing: Execute tests for normal, corner, and degraded operation.

Skills

System integration

Embedded systems

SDLC understanding

CANoe/CANalyzer/Wireshark

Automotive networks (CAN/LIN/Autos-Eth

Python for logs

Education

Bachelor’s in Electrical/CS/Engineering

Tools

CANoe

CANalyzer

Wireshark

ECU diagnostics tools

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking a Systems Integration Engineer in Palo Alto to drive system-level integration of vehicle features across ECUs, software baselines, and hardware releases.

You will work with software, hardware, validation, manufacturing, and diagnostics teams to bring new capabilities into stable vehicle execution, including wake/sleep handling, energy management, ECU interactions, and state orchestration. Strong debugging and scripting skills are required.