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Job Description
Join Rivian’s Product Development AI and Data Science team to build agentic, scalable AI tools that help automate engineering workflows for software-defined hardware. This role spans the full path from prototype to production, with a focus on creating AI-ready data layers and evaluation frameworks that support efficiency, productivity, and quality across product development.
Location: Tustin, CA (onsite)
What you’ll do
- Partner with senior technical staff to design, orchestrate, and operationalize agentic AI workflows and LLM-powered systems for tasks like documentation auditing, requirement generation, and technical knowledge retrieval.
- Build, validate, and maintain ETL pipelines and data structures that supply high-fidelity context to AI applications across siloed engineering systems, including knowledge graphs and vector databases.
- Run rapid technical trials to evaluate emerging AI approaches, moving concepts from initial trials to functional prototypes and determining which methods can reduce engineering labor.
- Convert early-stage prototypes into robust, high-performance, and scalable enterprise-grade systems.
- Define and monitor quantitative performance requirements, including accuracy, grounding, latency, and cost, to meet safety and reliability expectations in vehicle engineering.
- Work with cross-functional partners to identify manual engineering workflows and implement AI-driven automations that improve product development efficiency and productivity.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
- Ideally 4-6+ years building production data pipelines and developing AI/ML solutions, with LLM-based application experience preferred.
- Strong experience in repository context engineering, AI-native IDEs & terminals, agentic loop optimization, and AI coding quality with technical debt mitigation.
- Hands-on or deep academic exposure to LLM orchestration and application concepts, including RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), agentic frameworks, context engineering, grounding, evaluation, and cost/latency optimization.
- Deep understanding of how AI systems can fail differently than traditional software, including ability to create statistical validation tests, set tolerance thresholds, and track output distributions.
- Demonstrated experience with Git, eval-driven CI/CD pipelines, probabilistic validation, deployment, and end-to-end system ownership in production environments.
- Experience with high-throughput storage systems, containerized harness orchestration, and security and sandbox environments.
- Ability to extract, clean, and structure data from technical documents, requirements, or engineering specifications.
- Prior experience with physical engineering systems such as Hardware, IoT, or Telemetry.
- Strong problem-solving skills focused on product development.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for cross-team coordination and cross-functional leadership.
- Drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
Technologies you may work with
- LLM, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
- ETL, knowledge graphs, vector databases
- Git, CI/CD, containerized harness orchestration
- Neo4j, Pinecone, Spark, Databricks
- GCP, DBT
Nice to have
- Exposure to graph technologies (e.g., Neo4j, knowledge graphs) or vector databases (e.g., Pinecone).
- Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (e.g., regression, distribution properties, statistical tests).
- Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, tree-based methods, deep learning) and their real-world tradeoffs.
- Experience building user-facing applications.
- Experience with distributed data and computing tools such as Spark, Databricks, and GCP.
- Experience with DBT.
- Passion for electric vehicles, renewable energy, and sustainable transportation.