Sr. Vehicle Modeling Engineer, Applied AI Systems

The role

You will develop and operate AI tooling and Digital Twin infrastructure for vehicle systems. You will build plant models, co-simulation environments, and LLM-assisted requirement and test pipelines. You will also perform hands-on systems engineering including authoring requirements and design reviews.

What you will do

• Build and maintain multi-fidelity plant models for vehicle subsystems
• Develop and run co-simulation environments
• Correlate models against real vehicle, dyno, lab rig and fleet data
• Build LLM pipelines for requirement drafting, test script generation, and analysis
• Deploy semantic search and RAG over requirements and architecture models
• Integrate AI assistants into GitLab and test management systems
• Build AI analytics tools to correlate requirements and architecture with fleet data
• Author requirements and test cases
• Participate in architecture, interface, and safety design reviews
• Document AI-augmented SE process standards and playbooks

Required qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering, or related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience through projects
• Strong Python skills
• Practical experience building LLM applications
• Systems-minded ability to decompose a physical product into subsystems, behaviors and interfaces

Nice to have

• Experience with physical simulation tools: OpenModelica, Simulink, Julia, Modelica, or FMI/FMU-based co-simulation
• Hands-on projects involving physical systems such as vehicle dynamics, powertrain, robotics, Baja SAE, Formula SAE, or solar car
• Familiarity with automotive SE artifacts: requirements, test cases, E/E architecture, CAN signals, DBC/ARXML
• Experience with LLM evaluation: precision/recall, hallucination rate, latency, cost
• GitLab CI/CD experience
• AI portfolio: projects applying LLMs or ML to engineering or technical documentation
• Fault tree analysis, DFEMA or STPA know-how

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Annual company performance bonus program
• Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Health coverage
• Retirement savings
• Time off
• Family planning programs

About the company

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders addressing electric vehicle challenges through technology. They aim to set standards for software-defined vehicles globally.