About Us

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.

The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward. Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.

Role Summary

As a Staff Functional Safety Engineer within the Propulsion and Dynamics domain, you will own the functional safety strategy for propulsion, dynamics and chassis features across multiple vehicle programs. You will define how it is applied across the domain, setting the safety architecture patterns, decomposition strategies, and analysis methods that other engineers build against.

You will act as the technical authority for these features functional safety across Rivian, VW, Audi, Porsche, and Scout programs: arbitrating architecture trade-offs between fail-operational redundancy and cost/complexity, resolving cross-doma