Staff AI Engineer, Enterprise AI

The role

You will build reusable AI tooling across agent runtimes, evaluation, skills, plugins, and agentic loops. You will design AI tooling that works with any model and integrate AI into the development lifecycle.

What you will do

• Build reusable AI tooling across agent runtimes, evaluation, skills, plugins, and agentic loops
• Design and build AI tooling that works with any model, open-source or proprietary
• Put AI to work across the development lifecycle
• Lead design reviews and build prioritized AI services and developer tools end to end
• Collaborate across engineering groups to spot shared patterns and reuse components
• Build evaluation, guardrails, and monitoring for open-source and proprietary models
• Measure and report the impact of new tooling
• Make AI workloads fast and affordable
• Build security, privacy, and auditability into every tool
• Mentor engineers across levels

Required qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years (Staff) or 12+ years (Senior Staff) in software engineering
• Track record of delivering production systems in enterprise environments
• Hands-on experience building and operating AI-native developer tools, internal platforms, or CI/CD systems in production
• Hands-on experience with language models and agents, including tool use, context management, and evaluation in production, across both open-source and proprietary models
• Deep familiarity with the latest developments in AI, especially as they apply to software development
• Experience designing abstractions that keep tooling portable across model providers and frameworks
• Experience collaborating across teams and influencing technical decisions without formal authority
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar through code reviews and design reviews
• Working knowledge of security, privacy, and auditability for AI-enabled developer tooling
• Strong communication skills

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 the challenges of electric vehicles through technology. They aim to set standards for software-defined vehicles through connectivity, AI, and security.