Role Summary

As a Systems Integration Engineer, you will play a key role in integrating and validating vehicle behaviors across software, hardware, and diagnostics domains. Working within the Rivian-VW Group joint venture, you will help ensure vehicle features behave correctly in the real world across component, subsystem, bench, and vehicle environments.

In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional development teams, including software, hardware, validation, manufacturing, and diagnostics, to help bring new capabilities into stable vehicle execution. You will support hands-on vehicle integration and triage for core behaviors related to power modes, wake/sleep transitions, energy management, ECU interactions, and vehicle state orchestration. Your day-to-day execution will directly impact product quality, efficiency, launch readiness, and the end-user experience.

Responsibilities

Vehicle Integration & Execution

• System Integration: Support system-level integration of vehicle features across ECUs, software baselines, and hardware releases.
• Environment Split: Validate vehicle behaviors related to wake, sleep, reset, and power transition scenarios. This role requires a balance of desk-based data triage, lab-bench/HIL environment execution, and hands-on, in-vehicle testing.
• Hardware-to-Design Alignment: Verify that intended software behaviors are fully achieved in the physical vehicle, identifying and logging any gaps between hardware performance and design specifications.
• Platform Readiness: Help prepare and bring up controllers, next-gen platforms, and networked systems for integration milestones.

Cross-Functional Integration

• Technical Collaboration: Act as a key engineering point of contact for integration topics across software, hardware, validation, manufacturing, and diagnostics teams.
• Feature Tracking: Support the coordination and tracking of new features and system changes from early development through release readiness.
• Issue Closure: Help drive closure of integration gaps by investigating test findings, tracking dependencies, and documenting technical issues for stakeholders.
• Edge Case Testing: Execute test cases designed to ensure system behaviors are resilient across normal operation, corner cases, and degraded modes.

Validation & Root Cause Analysis

• Triage & Investigation: Conduct first-line triage and investigations into system-level issues observed on benches, HIL environments, development vehicles, or in manufacturing.
• Network Debugging: Debug distributed vehicle interactions using vehicle logs, network traces, and ECU-level data across CAN, LIN, Automotive Ethernet, and diagnostics channels.
• Test Execution: Execute integration test plans covering functional behavior, sequencing, timing, fault handling, and regression risk.
• Technical Communication: Clearly document root causes, isolate failures to specific domains (SW vs. HW), and track corrective actions across teams.

Tools, Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Scripting & Tooling: Use and maintain Python scripts, automated test workflows, and analysis methods to accelerate log validation and issue triage.
• Observability: Help improve system observability by identifying gaps in logging and recommending better debug approaches for complex integration issues.
• Process Support: Follow and contribute to robust integration processes, documentation standards, and release readiness practices across the team.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in automotive systems integration, embedded systems, validation, or a closely related discipline.
• Strong understanding of embedded software development lifecycles (SDLC) and vehicle functions within automotive E/E architectures.
• Hands-on experience debugging vehicle systems using tools such as CANoe, CANalyzer, Wireshark, or equivalent trace and analysis tools.
• Direct experience working with network protocols like CAN, LIN, or Automotive Ethernet, and basic ECU-level interactions.
• Experience executing test cases and validating features across bench, HIL, or physical vehicle environments.
• Ability to utilize Python for log parsing and basic test scripting, or experience with similar data analysis tools (e.g., MATLAB).
• Solid written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical issues to cross-functional peers.
• Proven ability to take ambiguous vehicle behavior, gather relevant logs, and drive structured troubleshooting to root cause.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing vehicle power modes, wake and sleep behavior, low-voltage power management, or related vehicle state control systems.
• Familiarity with HIL simulation setups, ECU simulation, or vehicle-level validation workflows.
• Familiarity with modern zonal or domain-based E/E architectures.
• Basic knowledge of UDS diagnostics or manufacturing vehicle bring-up activities.
• Experience working in a fast-paced automotive environment with multiple global teams.
• Basic understanding of ISO 26262 Functional Safety concepts.

Total Rewards

We build the exceptional - and we believe the people doing that work should be rewarded accordingly. In addition to a competitive base salary, full-time positions may be is eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program.

Payments are discretionary and not guaranteed; actual amounts depend on company results and the terms of the plan in effect, and require active employment at the time of payout. This role is also eligible for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), subject to board approval and the terms of our equity incentive plans, including applicable vesting requirements.

In addition to our compensation programs, we invest in our people with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health, wellbeing, and financial future for full-time employees - including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs. Offerings vary by country. Learn more about our global benefit programs.

External candidates can apply for this role through the Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies careers site (https://rivianvw.tech/#careers). If you are a current employee, please apply through our internal job board.