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About the Role

Rivian is seeking a senior technical leader to join our ML application and compiler ecosystem team. This role will focus on expanding capabilities for edge AI platforms, improving model enablement infrastructure, and influencing the future hardware-software roadmap. The position is ideal for someone with deep experience in practical inference systems and deploying models on constrained edge hardware.

Responsibilities

Lead development of machine learning enablement workflows for Rivian edge AI platforms.
Build and improve front-end compiler and model-ingestion tooling for a broad model zoo on RAP1 and future platforms.
Develop and scale robust quantization-aware training and model optimization infrastructure.
Port, optimize, validate, and benchmark machine learning models for deployment on hardware accelerators and NPU-class architectures.
Improve performance across memory, scheduling, sparsity, and data-movement constraints in collaboration with hardware and systems teams.
Create methods to evaluate model fidelity and deployment quality across floating-point and quantized paths, including accuracy, error, and performance tradeoffs.
Work across software, compiler, architecture, and product teams to identify high-value workloads and accelerate customer-relevant enablement.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring for engineers on model deployment, compiler infrastructure, and hardware-aware ML.
Help shape the long-term direction of Rivian’s edge AI stack, including support for increasingly large and complex neural network models.

Requirements

Deep experience in machine learning systems, model deployment, or AI infrastructure.
Strong background in model optimization for edge or accelerated inference, including quantization and performance tuning.
Experience building or extending compiler, toolchain, or graph-transformation infrastructure for ML workloads.
Strong understanding of hardware/software co-design for inference acceleration.
Experience working with low-power edge platforms, NPUs, custom accelerators, GPUs, or closely related architectures.
Ability to reason about memory allocation, execution scheduling, bandwidth constraints, and overall system performance.
Experience translating research concepts into practical tooling and production workflows.
Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to lead through technical influence.
Experience with quantization-aware training, post-training quantization, compression, pruning, and sparsity optimization.
Experience bringing vision or multimodal models from development through full deployment.
Familiarity with ONNX and model graph transformation pipelines.
Experience validating numerical behavior across float and integer execution paths.
Experience supporting external customers, partner enablement, or productization of AI platforms.
Background working with both model-level and hardware-level optimization problems.
Startup or founder-level experience building end-to-end AI platform capabilities.

Skills

Machine Learning
AI
Model Optimization
Compiler Development
Edge AI
Inference Systems
Hardware-Software Co-design
Quantization
Performance Tuning
Toolchain Development
Graph Transformation
ONNX

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior Staff
Senior Technical Leader

About the Company

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever.
We build emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles.
We constantly challenge what’s possible and seek new solutions.
Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.

Equal Opportunity

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities.
If you have a disability or limitation that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.