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.
Role Summary
The Data and AI Platform team at Rivian supports developing and deploying Generative AI systems. We operate highly scalable infrastructure for serving and orchestrating LLMs, Vector Stores, and agents. As a staff engineer, you will be crucial in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust and scalable backend systems and leading the team's technical direction.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with our Machine Learning engineers, full-stack engineers, and product and cross-functional teams to bring magical customer experiences through large language models.
- Lead the development and deployment of Generative AI solutions for our commercial partners and customers by gaining a deep understanding of their workflows, writing integrations, and curating data and evaluations.
- Guide our model development by identifying new capabilities and evaluations that improve the overall product and inform our research roadmap.
- Building reliable and secure systems to power our web-based applications.
Qualifications
- Experience iterating on products in an enterprise setting, working with cross-functional teams.
- Architected, designed, and developed web applications for commercial partners using the AWS serverless framework.
- Deep interest in and/or prior exposure to building with LLMs in production.
- Improving our iteration speed by identifying and fixing bottlenecks.
- Strong coding skills in one or more programming languages – Golang, Python, Rust, Java.
- Expertise in building scalable web applications.
- Good foundation on Unix and bash. Some basic knowledge of Cloud networking is preferred.
- Foundations on Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, Git, and Release Management.
Pay Disclosure
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.
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