Staff Software Engineer, Vehicle Configuration Platform

The role

You will be a technical leader owning the health, reliability, and scalability of a vehicle configuration platform. You will manage compilation and code generation pipelines, validation and release infrastructure, and the provisioning path from schema to vehicle.

What you will do

• Own technical direction for configuration tooling, validation, and delivery infrastructure
• Lead initiatives to simplify the platform and reduce coordination costs
• Design compatibility strategy for data contracts deployed to devices
• Architect the validation and release pipeline
• Serve as senior escalation point for production configuration issues
• Drive alignment across organizational boundaries with firmware, cloud, and manufacturing stakeholders
• Mentor and multiply engineers on the team
• Be accountable for long-term maintenance cost of shipped products

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Demonstrated ownership of a platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing system used by many teams
• Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives from proposal through delivery
• Deep experience with serialization formats such as Protocol Buffers
• Strong Python
• Working C literacy
• Real depth in a modern build system such as Bazel
• Mature CI/CD and release engineering judgment
• Sound judgment under production pressure
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Nice to have

• Automotive or embedded domain experience: UDS diagnostics, vehicle variant coding, factory provisioning, or OTA update systems
• Rust experience
• Experience operating in multi-company or partner-engineering environments
• Experience with code generation toolchains such as protoc plugins or template-based generators
• Familiarity with manifest-based multi-repository workflows

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