Senior Data Engineer, Autonomy

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 Autonomy org at Rivian is seeking a talented and motivated Data Engineer to join our Cloud and Data Team. As a Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, and maintaining robust data pipelines to support our data-driven initiatives. Your expertise in AWS, Python, SQL, Apache Spark, and Databricks will be pivotal in ensuring the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our data infrastructure.

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable data pipelines to support various data-driven initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and implement solutions that meet business needs.
• Work with large datasets, ensuring data quality, integrity, and reliability throughout the entire data lifecycle.
• Leverage Apache Spark within the Databricks environment to process large volumes of data efficiently.
• Utilize Python, SQL, Spark, and other technologies to optimize and enhance data processing capabilities.
• Implementation experience on containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Implement and optimize ETL processes for efficient data extraction, transformation, and loading.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and Analysts to provide them with the necessary data infrastructure and support their analytical needs.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices to continuously improve data engineering processes.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• At least 5+ years building data and analytics platforms using AWS Cloud, Python, SQL and Databricks
• Experience working with Distributed systems like Spark.
• Knowledge of automation and CI-CD best practices.
• Outstanding aptitude for problem-solving and a demonstrated ability to excel within a collaborative team setting.

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.

Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.

Candidate Data Privacy

Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. 

Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services. 

Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.  

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.