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Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

Software Engineer, Edge AI

Palo Alto, California (Remote)$116.3k–$160kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies to build low-level software for connected vehicles, focusing on embedded AI, telemetry systems, and data management. You'll write performance-critical C++/Rust services that run on vehicle hardware with strict resource constraints, shipping on R1, R2, and VW platforms.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement native services in C++/Rust for vehicle compute across Linux, Android, and QNX
  • Build and optimize the vehicle data upload and retrieval system for ADAS and camera recordings
  • Deploy and tune ML models on vehicle NPUs for voice recognition and wake-word detection
  • Develop telemetry platform components including signal collection, metrics derivation, and fleet configuration tooling
  • Debug performance issues in production vehicles and benchmark against strict latency and memory budgets
  • Write design documentation and participate in code reviews for embedded systems code

What they're looking for

  • C++ or Rust
  • Linux systems fundamentals (processes, threading, IPC, filesystems)
  • Debugging tools (gdb, perf, strace)
  • Performance optimization and profiling
  • ML model inference and deployment
  • Android or embedded systems experience
  • Networking (Wi-Fi and cellular protocols)
  • Concurrent and real-time systems design
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Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is developing next-generation software-defined electric vehicles through a joint venture, focusing on systems architecture, battery management, and safety-critical systems. The company is hiring engineers in software architecture, embedded systems, functional safety, test integration, and audio systems to build reliable and compliant EV platforms.

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Likely interview questions

  • Describe a complex system you built from scratch—what was the hardest technical challenge and how did you solve it?
  • Walk us through how you would approach optimizing a C++ service that's running over its memory budget on a constrained vehicle compute platform.
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