Senior Software Engineer - AI Platform
Role Overview
Serve as a key technical leader shaping the GenAI platform’s architecture and strategy.
Integrate LLMs with internal and customer-facing applications at scale.
Use LLMs to drive cognitive automation, streamline workflows, and improve decision-making.
Build resilient, scalable, observable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.
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About the Company
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture developing software-defined vehicle technologies across operating systems, zonal controllers, cloud, connectivity, AI, and security.
Role Summary
Serve as a key technical leader shaping the GenAI platform’s architecture and strategy.
Integrate LLMs with internal and customer-facing applications at scale.
Use LLMs to drive cognitive automation, streamline workflows, and improve decision-making.
Build resilient, scalable, observable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Architect scalable intelligent agents that use LLMs to automate workflows and improve user experiences.
- Define the strategy for integrating LLMs with the software ecosystem.
- Identify and prioritize cognitive automation opportunities such as extraction, summarization, and question answering.
- Own critical machine learning-powered tools from conceptualization and design through implementation and deployment.
- Establish engineering standards for production-grade distributed ML solutions.
- Research emerging trends in machine learning, AI agents, and distributed systems.
- Collaborate with ML engineers, product teams, and senior leadership to align teams and deliver solutions.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s, Master’s degree, or Ph.D. in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience focused on large-scale distributed systems.
- Extensive experience building and deploying complex LLM-based agentic applications in production.
- Proficiency in Python or a similar programming language and expertise with cloud and container frameworks such as AWS and Kubernetes.
- Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant, and observable distributed systems.
- Expert understanding of machine learning principles, algorithms, evaluation metrics, and distributed-systems practices.
- Experience leading scalable backend software through design, deployment, and production operation.
- Strong communication, teamwork, influence, and cross-functional alignment skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Golang expertise is strongly preferred.
- Interest in advances in machine learning and natural language processing.
Total Rewards
- Full-time positions may participate in an annual company performance bonus program; payments are discretionary and not guaranteed.
- The role is eligible for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units, subject to applicable approvals and plan terms.
- Full-time employees receive benefits that may include health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs.
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