Triage Engineer, Autonomy (1-year contract, maternity leave cover)

About the role

Rivian is looking for a Triage Engineer to work on autonomy-related software. You will collaborate with feature engineering teams and help guide the development process and bug triage so that quality metrics are met, while exploring opportunities to improve features. The role is offered as a 1-year contract covering maternity leave.

Key responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with software and feature engineering teams to root cause vehicle and system-level software defects, including internal and external customer-facing issues.
• Make sure bug reports contain enough information for diagnosis and prioritization, such as severity, customer impact, reproducibility and ownership.
• Identify issue trends by component and by release, and create KPIs and dashboards together with the Cloud and Data team.
• Track ticket status and highlight items that appear to have stalled.
• Work with cross-functional teams and Technical Program Managers to ensure timely delivery of software fixes across application, integration, system test, security and hardware teams.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• At least 1-3 years of professional experience in software development or operations.
• Experience with defect management and cross-functional teams in a product or feature development environment.
• Ability to read and understand code (C/C++, Python and SQL).
• Knowledge of active safety and L2+ autonomous vehicle systems, and systems engineering experience in automated driving and active safety is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfort with ambiguity and self-motivation.

Required skills

• Data analytics for feature validation and trend analysis to drive quality metrics.
• Management tools such as Jira, Confluence, JAMA and Databricks.
• Familiarity with Agile methodology and continuous integration concepts.