Staff Software AI Engineer

Rivian’s Applied AI team builds AI products that help engineers design, build and support its vehicles. The Staff AI Software Engineer will shape the technical direction and build scalable, reliable agentic applications that automate workflows and support vehicle development across the company.

Responsibilities:

• Platform architecture. Define and own the agent platform architecture, including orchestration of long-running, multi-step agents, persistent state management, tool integration, permission-aware access to enterprise data, and evaluation infrastructure that gates production releases
• Technical direction. Establish reusable patterns, interfaces and engineering standards so that capabilities developed for one application can be adopted across the organization
• Production quality. Set the bar for reliability, observability and evaluation of AI systems. Ensure production applications meet defined quality, latency and cost targets against established baselines
• Hands-on engineering. Lead the design and implementation of the most complex components, deliver reference implementations, and resolve critical integration and reliability challenges
• Technology strategy. Evaluate emerging models, frameworks and tools; lead technical decisions on build versus buy and vendor selection; translate relevant advances into a roadmap with measurable impact
• Security and governance. Partner with Security, Legal and Compliance to embed authorization, auditability and data governance into the platform and its applications
• Talent development. Raise the engineering bar through design and code reviews, mentoring and participation in hiring