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About the Role

You will be a technical leader on the team that owns the vehicle configuration platform, working as a peer to its lead architect. You will own the health, reliability, and scalability of the compilation and code generation pipelines, validation and release infrastructure, the provisioning path from schema to vehicle, and the developer experience of every engineer who touches configuration. You will set technical direction for this surface area, drive initiatives that span firmware, build infrastructure, release engineering, OTA, and factory integration across two companies' engineering organizations, and raise the bar for how the team designs, reviews, and ships.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction for configuration tooling, validation, and delivery infrastructure, translating platform architecture into a concrete, sequenced roadmap and driving it to completion across teams.
Lead initiatives that simplify the platform: consolidating redundant mechanisms, retiring legacy pathways, and reducing the coordination cost of routine changes, while every downstream consumer keeps working.
Design the compatibility strategy for data contracts deployed to devices in the field, and build the automated enforcement that makes schema evolution provably safe rather than carefully reviewed.
Architect the validation and release pipeline as a product: define what classes of defects must be impossible to merge, and build the layered checks, staged rollouts, and observability that get there.
Serve as the senior escalation point for production configuration issues, leading root cause analysis during launches and field events and converting each incident into systemic prevention.
Drive alignment across organizational boundaries, negotiating shared contracts, review processes, and release mechanics with firmware, cloud, diagnostics, manufacturing, and partner-brand stakeholders who have differing constraints and conventions.
Mentor and multiply the engineers on the team, setting standards through design review, raising the quality of technical writing and decision records, and growing the mid-level engineers toward ownership.
Be accountable for the long-term maintenance cost of what the team ships.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience, including demonstrated ownership of a platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing system used by many teams.
A track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives from proposal through delivery, including ones that required deprecating or migrating away from entrenched systems.
Deep experience with serialization formats such as Protocol Buffers, including designing schemas with strict backward and forward compatibility guarantees for devices you cannot force-update.
Strong Python and working C literacy; real depth in a modern build system such as Bazel, including writing rules and repository-level integration, not just consuming builds.
Mature CI/CD and release engineering judgment: you design validation gates and rollout mechanics that encode correctness in automation, and you know which guarantees belong in tooling versus process.
Sound judgment under production pressure: you can lead a time-critical fix during a vehicle launch, and you also know when to refuse a shortcut or fence one in and drive its removal afterward.
Excellent written and verbal communication with internal and external stakeholders, including the ability to explain tradeoffs to non-software audiences and to write decision documents that hold up over time.
The instinct to lead through leverage: you measure your impact by what the team and its users can do without you.

Skills

Protocol Buffers
Python
C
Bazel
CI/CD
Release Engineering
UDS diagnostics
Vehicle variant coding
Factory provisioning
OTA update systems
Rust
Code generation toolchains
Manifest-based multi-repository workflows

Location

Berlin

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

8+ years of software engineering experience

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 with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter.
From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.
By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward.
Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.

Equal Opportunity

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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.
We are also committed to ensuring compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities.
If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.