Post-Training Evaluation Engineer - Controls System, Autonomy

About Rivian

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.

We are seeking a highly motivated Post-Training Evaluation Engineer to join our Controls team. With a strong AI/ML mindset, this role will focus on evaluating applications and supporting post-training analysis within our AI/ML pipeline. The primary responsibilities include developing and maintaining evaluation dashboards for control and active safety algorithms, utilizing tools such as Databricks and SQL to analyze and visualize data.

This position is critical for ensuring the performance, safety, and reliability of our autonomy stack as it scales across a commercial fleet of hundreds of thousands of vehicles.

• Design, implement, and maintain evaluation dashboards to monitor and assess the performance of control and active safety algorithms.
• Write and optimize Databricks SQL queries to extract, process, and analyze large datasets relevant to vehicle controls and safety features.
• Collaborate with algorithm, software, and data engineering teams to define evaluation metrics and reporting requirements.
• Automate data pipelines and reporting processes to ensure timely and accurate delivery of evaluation results.
• Present findings and insights to cross‑functional teams to support feature development and validation.
• Troubleshoot data and dashboard issues, ensuring high reliability and accuracy.

• Bachelor's/Master's/PhD degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field, with over 3 years of direct industry experience as a software engineer in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other real‑time, safety‑critical environments.
• Strong proficiency in modern C++, Python, and experience with ML frameworks, along with experience applying large‑scale software engineering best practices.
• Experience with Databricks, SQL, and dashboard development (e.g., Tableau, or similar tools).
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with attention to detail.
• Experience applying machine learning techniques to evaluate and analyze the performance of controls software in real‑world or simulated environments. Familiarity with automotive control systems and active safety algorithms is a plus.
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining systems with core AWS services (such as S3, EC2, Lambda), and a solid understanding of cloud‑native architecture.
• Familiarity with autonomous systems development, including perception, planning, or control, or related fields such as robotics, simulation, or verification and validation.
• Demonstrated ability to systematically debug and identify root causes of issues.

• Background in automotive or embedded systems.

The salary range for this role is $130,600- $ 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 to participate in Rivian's 401(k)…