Sr. AI Engineer, Enterprise Applied AI

About Us

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.

Join the Enterprise Applied AI team to build and ship production AI experiences and platforms that help internal teams work smarter and faster. As an AI Engineer, you will contribute across the stack, from data pipelines and retrieval to prompt/agent logic, evaluation/guardrails, and serving. You will collaborate closely with partners across Operations, Product, Sales, Customer Service, Finance, HR, and other internal teams to understand needs and deliver practical solutions that create tangible business value.

You will develop responsibly, partnering with governance stakeholders on privacy, security, compliance, and safety.

• Build features and services across the AI stack: orchestration, retrieval/grounding, prompt/agent logic, evaluation/guardrails, serving, and observability.
• Implement robust data processing and integration pipelines to enable high‑quality AI applications and analytics.
• Contribute to design docs, code reviews, testing, and operational playbooks to ensure reliability, maintainability, and resilience.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to define requirements, iterate quickly, and measure outcomes using clear success metrics.
• Instrument telemetry and evaluation to monitor quality, safety, latency, and cost; improve performance based on data.
• Follow responsible AI practices for security, privacy, compliance, and safety in collaboration with governance teams.
• Participate in on‑call and incident response rotations as appropriate; drive post‑incident improvements.
• Share learnings via demos and documentation; contribute to AI literacy and enablement across the org.

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Practical software engineering experience building backend services, APIs, or data‑intensive applications; strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and systems.
• Exposure to or hands‑on experience with LLM application concepts such as retrieval, grounding, prompt/agent design, function/tool use, evaluation, safety/guardrails, and cost/latency optimization.
• Proficiency with modern software delivery practices (version control, CI/CD, testing, observability); familiarity with cloud‑native services and containerization.
• Ability to collaborate with product and business partners; strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bias to ship, learn, and iterate; comfortable working in fast‑evolving technology areas with incomplete information.
• For Senior level: demonstrated ownership of services or platform components, end‑to‑end delivery of cross‑service initiatives, and contributions to reliability/SLOs and operational excellence.

The salary range for this role is $162,800 to $203,500 for California based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.

The successful candidate may be eligible for annual performance bonus and equity awards.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full‑time and part‑time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short‑term disability insurance, and long‑term disability insurance to eligible employees. You may also have the opportunity…