Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter.
From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technologies that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

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Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between Rivian and Volkswagen focused on advancing software-defined vehicles. The company develops vehicle operating systems, zonal controllers, cloud and connectivity solutions, and in-vehicle intelligence (including AI and security) to enable more intelligent, sustainable and updatable electric vehicles. It partners with major automotive brands to deliver B2B vehicle software platforms and tools that accelerate the global transition to electric vehicles and standardize next-generation vehicle software architectures.

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technologies that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.

• Lead Rivian mobile app initiatives from strategy and roadmap through definition and delivery
• Own core app experiences including home and vehicle status, remote commands, onboarding, account setup, notifications, and alerts
• Own information architecture, navigation, and interaction patterns to ensure app coherence
• Partner with mobile platform and vehicle software teams to improve launch time, command latency, reliability, crash-free rate, and vehicle wake behavior
• Deliver coherent end-to-end features across mobile and vehicle experiences
• Work within the mobile platform architecture and release model with platform, cloud, and domain product leads
• Take features from ideation to release through requirements, user stories, design and engineering collaboration
• Use owner feedback, app analytics, app store and support signals, and third-party quality data to inform decisions
• Define success metrics for shipped features
• Partner across vehicle software, cloud services, identity and profiles, charging, and service teams

Senior Product Manager, Mobile App

Product Manager leading Rivian’s connected EV mobile app experience. Owning strategy, app coherence, quality, and end-to-end delivery across mobile and vehicle software.

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• Design, implement, and test embedded software or controls algorithms for an assigned vehicle domain
• Write production quality code in C or C++, with Python used for test tooling
• Collaborate with systems engineers and test engineers to validate features before deployment
• Support test execution in SIL, HIL, or bench environments and help debug issues
• Communicate progress and technical tradeoffs to the team throughout the internship
• Work on embedded software or controls algorithms for vehicle domains including propulsion and dynamics, energy storage and charging, thermal and HVAC systems, body controls, functional safety, or systems engineering and test automation
• Implement and validate software for battery management, charging, or energy distribution systems
• Develop controls software for thermal and HVAC systems, body controls, or lighting
• Contribute to vehicle dynamics or propulsion controls algorithms
• Support functional safety analysis and requirements for safety-critical vehicle software
• Build and run automated tests in Unit, Software in the Loop, or Hardware in the Loop environments
• Work on systems engineering tasks such as requirements definition, architecture, or homologation

Software Engineering Intern – Vehicle Controls

Vehicle Controls intern developing embedded software and controls algorithms for Rivian-Volkswagen electric vehicles. Testing propulsion, charging, thermal, safety, and body-control systems.

• Maintain and evolve the user-space runtime that runs production firmware on host machines
• Connect ECU firmware to stubbed or modeled libraries including GPIO, CAN, LIN, PWM, watchdog, and ADC/DAC
• Implement functional device models in C or Python when hardware is unavailable
• Partner with hardware engineers to capture realistic device behavior and edge cases
• Own build scripts, toolchains, and configurations for host binaries and target MCU images
• Extend HIL Pytest suites for virtual configurations, inject faults, log traces, and validate timing or bus traffic
• Investigate discrepancies between firmware assumptions and host behavior using GDB as needed
• Collaborate with middleware/OS and hardware engineers to align abstractions and validate peripheral models
• Lead design reviews, improve code quality, and mentor peers on real-time pitfalls and maintainable C/C++/Python practices

Staff Embedded Software Engineer, Virtualization

Staff Embedded Software Engineer virtualizing automotive ECU firmware for Rivian-Volkswagen Technologies. Building device models, runtimes, and HIL validation tooling for software-defined vehicles.

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• Architect, construct, and maintain foundational cloud services and platform solutions for low-latency, real-time messaging and APIs worldwide
• Own high-throughput messaging systems such as NATS, including upgrades, performance validation, capacity planning, dashboards, and alerts
• Design and support gRPC/Protobuf APIs and client integrations with robust telemetry
• Lead infrastructure automation and deployment workflows using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Infrastructure as Code across development, staging, and production
• Build production-grade monitoring with Datadog dashboards and alerting, using Prometheus/Grafana for metrics and SLO tracking
• Configure and optimize reverse proxies and API gateways such as NGINX or Envoy for secure, reliable ingress and routing at scale
• Oversee PKI/certificate pipelines and service identities for secure authentication and transport across environments
• Develop and execute end-to-end, integration, and scaling test pipelines
• Advance multi-region reliability, optimize cost and performance, and support expanding multi-tenant capabilities across programs and brands
• Collaborate on technology powering vehicle, mobile, and cloud service communications

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer building scalable, low-latency connectivity infrastructure for electric vehicles at Rivian-Volkswagen Technologies. Operating messaging, APIs, Kubernetes, observability, and multi-region platform services.

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• Own backend features in Go, Python, and Rust from design through production rollout
• Evolve the declarative, schema-validated configuration system
• Manage vehicle-side feature lifecycles with idempotency and reliable state delivery to intermittently connected devices
• Lead high-scale analytical store migrations, including schema design, ingestion, dual-writes, and cutover sequencing
• Build and maintain intelligent routing across low-latency key-value stores, aggregation layers, and lakehouse archives
• Architect fleet-scale stateful streaming consumers for enrichment and anomaly detection
• Implement meaningful metrics, logging, and distributed tracing
• Participate in on-call rotations, debug incidents, and drive preventative follow-up work
• Strengthen test coverage for cross-system logic errors and integration defects
• Negotiate interface contracts with ingestion, firmware, and authentication teams
• Support internal stakeholders and use their feedback to improve the platform

Software Engineer II, Vehicle Data Services

Software Engineer building backend vehicle data services for Rivian-Volkswagen electric vehicles. Operating telemetry, fleet configuration, streaming, and analytical data systems at scale.

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Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

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Software Engineer II, Vehicle Data Services

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