Staff Vehicle Architecture Engineer

The role

The Vehicle System Architecture team owns the vehicle-level mechatronic architecture. This person will build parametric models, run architecture trade studies, and develop AI pipelines for architecture artifacts.

What you will do

• Build and own parametric models for vehicle architecture decisions
• Run architecture trade studies with quantified outcomes
• Build cost and BOM models
• Support cost-down by using models to identify unnecessary components
• Analyze new technology integration with SW HW platform design approach
• Build LLM and agentic pipelines over architecture artifacts
• Deploy semantic search over requirements and architecture models
• Integrate AI assistance into the team toolchain via APIs and CI pipelines
• Build analytics connecting architecture decisions to downstream outcomes
• Contribute to vehicle-level STPA, DFMEA and fault analyses

Required qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, Systems or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated experience
• 5+ years in vehicle, aerospace or electromechanical systems engineering
• Strong Python for data processing, parametric modeling, automation, and prototyping AI workflows
• Practical experience building LLM applications including RAG pipelines, semantic search, structured extraction or agent frameworks
• Systems-minded ability to decompose a vehicle into subsystems, functions and interfaces

Nice to have

• E/E architecture background
• Physical simulation tools such as OpenModelica, Julia, Spice, Modelica, or FMI/FMU co-simulation
• Worst-case, tolerance and statistical analysis (WCCA, Monte Carlo, DOE) applied to real designs
• Hands-on projects involving physical systems
• Manufacturing or DFM exposure
• GitLab CI/CD
• AI portfolio applying LLMs or ML to engineering artifacts
• STPA, DFMEA or fault tree analysis know-how

Benefits

• 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. They address the challenges of electric vehicles through technology for software-defined vehicles.