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About the Role

As a Hardware Technical Program Manager (TPM), you will be the central technical liaison driving joint vehicle programs between our engineering teams and Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche. Your focus is collaborative and strategic, orchestrating alignment across brand engineering groups, manufacturing plants, and internal hardware teams to bring ambitious vehicle programs to production reality.

Responsibilities

Serve as the hardware integration partner for VW, Audi, and Porsche, maintaining alignment on requirements, schedules, and decisions.
Own hardware integration schedules, milestones, and readiness gates from prototype builds through production validation.
Drive engineering change management, including Program Change Requests (PCRs), impact assessments, and approvals.
Coordinate with internal hardware development and validation teams, bridging time differences between US and European partners.
Track and close hardware issues and open action items with clear owners and due dates.
Lead cost-reduction initiatives on hardware platforms.
Represent hardware integration in program reviews, quality boards, and steering meetings.
Maintain the Brand Technical Responsible (BTV) interface, collecting partner feedback and creating prioritized actions.
Help build and grow the European partnering team, including hiring and onboarding.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechatronics, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Strong background in hardware development and/or hardware validation with technical depth.
Generalist profile comfortable with hardware design, validation, program management, and partner alignment.
Experience in automotive or another safety-critical industry, ideally across development phases (EVT, DVT, PVT).
Fluent German and very good English, both written and spoken.
High stress resistance, able to maintain clear priorities and communicate calmly during tight deadlines and escalations.
Agile working style with experience in sprints or iterative cycles and cross-functional teams.
Comfortable working across time zones with regular overlap with US colleagues.

Skills

Hardware development
Hardware validation
Program management
Partner alignment
Automotive development phases
Agile working style
Cross-functional teams
Zonal architectures
Vehicle networking
ECU platforms (XMM, RFM, or VAS)
Automotive change management processes
PCR workflows
ECR workflows

Location

Berlin

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechatronics, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, or similar) is a plus.

Salary/Compensations

Competitive base salary
Eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program
Eligible for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Benefits

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.
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.