Senior Android Engineer - Infotainment

The role

You will design and develop infotainment applications on Rivian and Volkswagen Group Android-based OS. You will create modular software, review designs, and partner with various engineering and product teams.

What you will do

• Contribute to the design and development of the infotainment applications on Rivian and Volkswagen Group Android-based OS.
• Create modular and scalable software.
• Review designs and merge requests across collaborating teams.
• Partner with engineers from infotainment platforms, vehicle services, connectivity, cloud, mobile, privacy, and product security.
• Constructively challenge requirements, designs, implementation approaches, and release decisions.
• Communicate concerns and recommend alternatives.
• Write test code to drive quality, robustness, and functional correctness.
• Build regression coverage and diagnose failures across unit, integration, and Android UI tests.
• Identify potential problems and resolve application bottlenecks for performance optimizations.
• Use modern AI tools to support investigation, implementation, testing, and code review.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years experience in Android application development.
• Proficiency in Java and Kotlin.
• Ability to manage your workload with minimal supervision.
• Experience building Android apps using core Android APIs.
• Knowledge of Android lifecycle, reactive and asynchronous programming patterns, dependency injection, persistence, and testable architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate technical disagreements, explain tradeoffs with evidence, and influence decisions across disciplines.

Nice to have

• Exposure to Python and/or other scripting languages
• Familiarity with Jetpack components
• Knowledge of Android’s performance and testing frameworks.
• Jetpack Compose and interoperability with existing Views.
• Prior experience in developing on-vehicle technology.
• Unit and integration testing, Espresso, Compose Testing, Roborazzi, reusable fixtures and test abstractions, functional/end-to-end testing with Maestro or Trailblaze
• Experience with building reusable application frameworks, SDKs, shared libraries, migrating applications and libraries between architectures, or services while preserving behaviour and compatibility.
• Android build tooling, CI, test automation, and practical use of modern AI development tools with verification of their output

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.