Sr. Systems Integration Engineer-Power Modes

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies • Palo Alto, CA

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About The Position

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between Rivian and Volkswagen Group focused on automotive technology, including operating systems, zonal controllers, cloud, and connectivity solutions for software-defined vehicles.

Vehicle Power Modes define how a vehicle wakes, remains active, transitions between power states, and sleeps. The Senior Systems Integration Engineer will help shape power-mode architecture for future RVT vehicle platforms and make it executable across software, hardware, diagnostics, validation, and release teams. The role combines technical program integration with hands-on engineering: understanding technical details to make tradeoffs, investigate failures, and drive issues to closure. The engineer will connect system requirements and architecture to implementation, integration, validation, and production-ready releases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in automotive embedded systems integration, vehicle systems, or a closely related discipline.
• Strong understanding of vehicle power distribution, embedded software lifecycles, ECU interactions, and distributed vehicle architectures.
• Experience with CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet analysis tools such as CANoe, CANalyzer, Wireshark, or equivalent.
• Experience translating system behavior into requirements, state machines, sequence diagrams, and integration plans.
• Experience with requirement management and issue-tracking tools such as Jama and Jira.
• Proficiency with Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for log analysis, data analysis, and automation.
• Ability to lead structured root-cause investigations across software, hardware, networks, and diagnostics.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to navigate complex technical and stakeholder dynamics.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with zonal controller architectures and modern E/E systems.
• Experience with Vehicle Power Modes, wake and sleep behavior, low-voltage energy management, or vehicle state control.
• Experience working across multiple vehicle programs or in a joint-venture environment.
• Working knowledge of ISO 26262 functional safety concepts.
• Experience driving integration through launch, release, manufacturing, or field issue resolution.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain scalable Vehicle Power Modes architecture across future generations of RVT vehicle platforms.
• Translate vehicle behaviors into technical requirements, state machines, timing diagrams, and sequence diagrams.
• Own cross-functional dependency management across software, hardware, diagnostics, validation, manufacturing, and partner teams.
• Establish integration milestones, readiness criteria, gates, risks, and escalation paths.
• Serve as a central technical point of contact for software baselines, feature integration, and system-level tradeoffs.
• Coordinate power-mode behavior across distributed controllers and vehicle systems.
• Drive integration, debugging, and release closure from early development through production-ready firmware.
• Lead system-level investigations using vehicle logs, CAN, LIN, Automotive Ethernet, and ECU diagnostics.
• Improve observability and diagnostics to help isolate power-state failures across bench, HIL, vehicle, factory, and field environments.
• Develop and maintain integration plans connecting requirements, implementation, test coverage, and release readiness.
• Communicate technical status, risks, decisions, and dependencies to engineering and leadership stakeholders.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Eligibility for the annual company performance bonus program for full-time positions; payments are discretionary and not guaranteed.
• Eligibility for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units, subject to board approval and applicable plan terms and vesting requirements.
• Comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees, including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs; offerings vary by country.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior