Sr. Vehicle Build Technician II

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.

The RIV-4 VQAF Technician supports vehicle quality, fleet readiness, and execution across assigned vehicles, programs, and subsystem work streams. This role is responsible for organizing and performing day‑to‑day technician activities with a strong build‑in‑quality mindset, identifying quality concerns early, driving follow‑through, and partnering closely with engineering, operations, and quality stakeholders to deliver high‑quality outcomes. At the RIV‑4 level, the technician is expected to work with growing autonomy, manage assignments with multiple inputs and deliverables, communicate clearly across teams, and contribute practical improvements to processes, documentation, and execution standards.

• Develop and execute strategies with the team to exceed goals within an assigned area of responsibility, such as a specific fleet, vehicle group, support program, or subsystem, while contributing to broader cross‑functional goals and readiness needs.
• Ability when needed to independently execute and continuously improve deliverables, technician workflows, inspection methods, documentation, and handoffs within the VQAF function.
• Own complex and sometimes ambiguous assignments end‑to‑end with team support across multiple vehicles, stakeholders, or locations, taking initiative to unblock issues and move work forward without waiting for perfect definition.
• Ability to act independently to define methods, test approaches, work sequencing, and execution plans for new or changing assignments, while escalating risk early and bringing forward practical recommendations.
• Serve as a day‑to‑day technical lead or facilitator when needed, coordinating work across technicians and partner teams including engineering, events, communications, studio, operations, and program stakeholders to deliver work on time and to a high standard.
• Support VQAF activities such as fleet maintenance, special‑project support, vehicle recovery, specialty wheel support, wrap and detail coordination, vehicle buy‑offs and walkthroughs, and showcase/event preparation.
• Maintain clear communication on priorities, dependencies, timing, and tradeoffs; provide timely feedback when priorities shift and explain the impact to project scope, timing, or team capacity.
• Organize and manage active projects, balancing competing assignments while maintaining quality, urgency, and professionalism under changing business needs.
• Lead or support issue triage, containment, and follow‑up by clearly documenting defects, failure modes, risks, recommended next steps, and execution status.
• Create and maintain accurate documentation, shift notes, process flows, reports, work instructions, and status updates needed to keep work visible and repeatable across the team.
• Identify recurring friction points and propose improved procedures, standards, templates, tooling, or coordination methods that raise team performance over time.
• Build strong working relationships with technicians, group leaders, engineers, and partner teams by being reliable, solution‑oriented, and clear in both written and verbal communication.

• High school diploma or GED preferred, with relevant experience in manufacturing, assembly, quality processes, automotive repair, prototype support, or mechanical technician work.
• Moderate to high ability to troubleshoot vehicle concerns, including electrical and non‑electrical issues, and to execute repairs, inspections, validation checks, and rework support with attention to detail.
• Experience using common inspection, audit, and measurement tools such as torque tools, calipers, gauges, OBD tools, or comparable shop and…