Senior Cost Engineer - Electrical

Rivian•Irvine, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Rivian Supply Chain team is looking for highly motivated technical professionals to drive value through expert cost analysis. As a Senior Cost Engineer, you will serve as a key individual contributor responsible for independently managing the cost analysis of assigned commodities. You will integrate data from various sources to create defensible estimates that directly influence sourcing decisions, design trade-offs, and supplier negotiations. In this role, you will drive results by building compelling business cases that persuade stakeholders to adopt cost-optimized strategies. You are expected to demonstrate advanced proficiency in cost-modeling tools and take ownership of improving team processes. This role offers the opportunity to influence decision-making by presenting logical, data-driven insights in cross-functional forums. This position is based onsite in Irvine and reports to the Electrical Cost Engineering Manager.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field and a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
Understands how their work informs sourcing decisions, design trade-offs, and supplier negotiations, providing foundational data-driven input to cross-functional teams.
Commodity-Specific Experience: PCBAs and Electromechanical Assemblies, Sensors, Switches, Thermal Control (cooling tubes, manifolds), ECUs
Advanced user of various systems with the ability to conduct larger-scale gap analysis to identify focus areas and outliers.
Confidently fields questions from peers and is learning to tailor their communication style to different audiences.
Proactively communicates issues that have an impact outside of Cost Engineering, flagging risks and opportunities to the relevant teams.
Consistently uses first principles to drive change and responds actively to feedback from senior team members to close skill gaps.

Nice To Haves

Ability and willingness to travel as needed based on business needs, expected to average up to 10%.

Responsibilities

Independently applies manufacturing principles and maintains a working knowledge of material properties, key manufacturing processes, and cost drivers without frequent guidance.
Builds and presents a compelling business case to explain component cost analysis and persuade stakeholders to use the output to generate financial opportunities.
Demonstrates advanced usage of aPriori and/or Costdata, autonomously modifying cost estimate process setups and options while leveraging the full toolchain (PLM, CATIA, etc.).
Advises outcomes to direct counterparts and uses data-driven insights to directly influence the work of peers.
Manages day-to-day responsibilities and assigned projects with minimal guidance, identifying and managing personal priorities in urgent situations.