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Sr / Staff Software Engineer, Perception Onboard

Rivian
Palo Alto, CA Full-time 2/4/2026 $179k - $285k per year
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
Approval 99%Total filings 685New hires 98
Established Sponsor
FY 2025

Job Description

Rivian is seeking a Software Engineer specializing in safety-critical self-driving software to design, develop, and deploy essential self-driving features. The role involves optimizing onboard software, developing tools for testing, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure robust software solutions.

Requirements

  • B.S. / M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • 8+ years of experience developing production-grade software
  • Strong C++ programming skills
  • Experience in automotive or robotics software development
  • Experience working on heterogeneous systems with various types of hardware accelerators (GPU, ISP, Encoder, etc.)
  • Experience working with libraries for hardware accelerators (CUDA, TensorRT, OpenCL, etc.)
  • Team player with great communication skills to drive cross-functional efforts in a fast-paced development environment
  • Passionately motivated to take ideas from R&D phase to a product
  • Software Development life cycle experience: from requirements gathering through to implementation and maintenance

Responsibilities

  • Take charge of optimizing, testing, and enhancing onboard software that runs Rivian’s Perception models that underpin all self-driving features
  • Develop necessary tools to support development, debugging, and testing
  • Assist in software-design and code reviews while assisting other developers on technical issues, design choices, and decision making
  • Analysis of requirements, architecture, design, development, code review, quality assurance, and deployment of entire software engineering life cycle
  • Coordinate with Perception model development and cross-functional teams to enable and support onboard model deployment/integration

Benefits

  • Employees at Rivian are often offered comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with company match, ESPP and potential RSU grants, performance bonuses, and generous time off including paid parental and sick leave. Perks can include 24/7 mental-health coaching and therapy, Hinge Health for Anthem enrollees, tuition assistance and professional development, plus on-site food and a wide range of employee discounts on items like computers, mobile phones, home loans, and pet care.

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