Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field with 8+ years of hands-on experience.
Strong familiarity with wireless automotive technologies including WiFi, BT, BLE, LTE, 5G related to vehicle access systems.
Experience with system design or certification for keyless entry systems like CCC and MFi.
Background in designing and validating embedded systems in automotive or aerospace contexts.
Proficiency in RF and electrical engineering, with hands-on experience using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and network analyzers.
Knowledge of power management in distributed embedded architectures, focusing on low-power states.
Coding experience with embedded systems, including automation and performance instrumentation.
Responsibilities
Collaborate across teams to create plans for characterizing performance metrics and identifying system bottlenecks.
Translate high-level requirements into clear, valid performance metrics for architecture design.
Lead the design and integration of hardware testing configurations for validation activities.
Develop systems and automation for performance characterization, from requirements to implementation.
Implement characterization plans and present validation metrics to support architectural decisions.
Contribute to prototypes for next-gen technologies and future integration.
Direct the development of robotic automation for testing wireless sub-systems, measuring RF performance.
Benefits
Comprehensive health and wellness benefits package designed for employees.
Eligibility for annual performance bonuses and stock options as part of total compensation.
Full Job Description
In this position, you will lead efforts within the Hardware Systems Architecture team to characterize performance of low-voltage electrical (LVE) systems in Rivian vehicles, with the aim to influence hardware architecture decision-making in early development stages, and to validate system designs in later stages of the development cycle. This is a hardware architecture role that requires a familiarity with wireless connectivity systems necessary to identify, and quantify system-level performance metrics, anticipate key design risks, and validate system architecture performance against requirements. This role spans the characterization of various wireless technologies at the system and sub-system level including their associated networks, compute, and power related performance dimensions, related to WiFi, BT/BLE, 4G/5G, GNSS, and UWB deployment into telematics, passive / keyless vehicle access system (VAS), and other domains.
Responsibilities
Drive the collaboration between hardware architecture, hardware design and software application teams to create comprehensive characterization plans that surface key performance metrics, provide insight into system bottlenecks and chokepoints, reveal over-/under-design scenarios, and validate system performance relative to system requirements.
Work cross-functionally to factor high-level functional and performance requirements into their respective sub-systems, distill them into clear system architecture performance requirements capable of validation, and evolve these requirements into future architecture.
Lead and support the design, integration and automation efforts related to characterization and validation activities on various hardware testing configurations, including early prototypes boards, bench-top sub-system mock-ups, lab cars, mules, and other HIL infrastructure.
Orchestrate the end-to-end development of systems and automation for performance characterization ranging from development of requirements to identification of solutions and their implementation, including integration of h/w and s/w, establishment of control and data acquisition pipelines, and development of downstream data processing infrastructure.
Execute characterization plans, leverage analytical methods, and present clear validation metrics and reports that support data-driven architectural decisions, and validate the resulting designs.
Contribute to mock-ups or prototypes to study next-gen technologies, establish proofs-of-concept, and/or serve as reference platforms for future bring up, system integration, system-level validation, or future architecture inclusion.
Lead the development of hardware and software that enables characterization, testing and certification of wireless sub-systems using robotic automation to measure relevant RF system KPIs vs positional ground truth around the vehicle under test.
Qualifications
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field, and a track record of 8+ years of hands-on experience in relevant practical settings.
Deep familiarity with landscape of wireless automotive technologies, e.g. WiFi, BT, BLE, LTE, 5G, especially those relevant to keyless vehicle access, including NFC, BLE, UWB, and their performance evaluation and/or certification at the RF, protocol and systems integration levels.
Familiarity with system design and/or certification related to Connect Car Consortium (CCC) and/or Made for iPhone (MFi) keyless entry systems at the module and system levels.
Experience designing and/or validating embedded systems optimized for distributed architecture settings, including automotive, aerospace, or other architecturally similar applications.
Foundation in RF and electrical engineering fundamentals, and hands-on familiarity with related test and measurement equipment, e.g., logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, DMMs, network analyzers, etc.
Solid grasp of the power related aspects of distributed embedded architectures, with focus on efficient low-power states, wake propagation and sequencing.
Hands-on coding experience related to some combination of embedded platform bring-up, system software / applications development, or system-level hardware performance instrumentation, and related test automation / scripting.
Some familiarity with hardware and software associated with robotic automation for ground truth spatial data capture (for RF system characterization), including optical, inertial and GPS based sensors and sensor fusion for navigation, path-planning, obstacle avoidance, visual odometry, and/or related technologies.
Talent for working from first principles to develop software for modeling, data acquisition, mining, analysis, and presentation in using appropriate tools, e.g. Python, MatLab.
Innate curiosity to figure out how systems work by decomposing them through the application of fundamental principles, an ability to translate this into measurable metrics, and a drive to leverage these methods to optimize design.
Total Rewards
Total compensation packages for full-time positions include base salary, eligibility for an annual performance bonus, and eligibility for equity.
In addition, our benefits package has been designed to support the health and wellness of our employees. For more information on RV Tech's comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees, check out our Global Benefits Site.
External candidates can apply for this role through the RV Tech Careers site (https://rivianvw.tech/#careers). If you are a current employee, please apply through our internal job board.
