Vehicle Systems Architect

Number of employees

11700

United States, Remote, United States

Posted on: 2022-06-08

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Remote?

Yes

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Doing something different is never easy. It requires courage, optimism and grit. Core to our mission is building a team of adventurous individuals determined to make a positive impact on the world. This means challenging ourselves constantly. Stretching beyond the bounds of conventional thinking. Reframing old problems. Seeking new solutions. And operating comfortably in a space of uncertainty. While our backgrounds are diverse, our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. Do you like doing the impossible? We’d love to hear from you.

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. 

As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. 

You'll help the team: 

  • Support the design of next generation electrical systems.  
  • Perform research and development tasks for various technologies.  
  • Steer the technology adoption across various organizations within Rivian  
  • Create architectural tradeoff’s considering cost, mass, performance, and serviceability  
  • We're looking for talented teammates who’ll help us maintain strong teamwork and are passionate about driving results!  

Responsibilities: 

  • Push the limits – You will be helping to driving current and upcoming electrical system requirements for Rivian vehicles.  
  • Breakdown Problems – You will break down functions and features to their core components and work with teams to build them into unified solutions.  
  • Optimize solutions – Balancing competing requirements, you will work in a cross functional teams , driving and representing electrical functions in vehicle architectural discussions and decisions for upcoming Rivian vehicle platforms, maintain engineering performance budgets.  
  • Describe how things work – You will work cross functionally to drive and decompose requirements from product requirements down to electrical component level requirements. You’ll support the development of vehicle logical schematics.  
  • Lead cross functional engagements – Help drive teams across multiple organizations to steer adoption of new technologies  

Qualifications: 

  • 5+ years of experience working in systems or electronics 
  • Advanced engineering degree in Electrical engineering or equivalent.  
  • Ability to lead multiple teams with a technology from concept to production  
  • High EQ and the ability to collaborate to with others.  
  • Ability to dive deep into first principles in electrical to reach a solution  
  • Deep technical understanding of transportation functional distribution  
  • Deep technical understanding of mass weight power balancing across a vehicle  
  • Good understanding of the software and system integration of the components  
  • High technical competence in electrical engineering  
  • Strong Creative thinking and problem solving toolbox. 

Equal Opportunity

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. 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.

Rivian 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 [email protected].

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