Electrical Engineer, Special Projects
Rivian
About the Role
The Special Projects Team is the hands-on heartbeat of Rivian's future, where you’ll get out from behind the desk to turn ambitious concepts into physical reality. This role is highly collaborative and fast-paced while offering experience working on a wide range of interesting projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Design ground-up hardware for show cars and early prototypes, flexing your expertise across mechatronics, LV/HV wiring, and power electronics.
- Program microcontrollers and write embedded software to transform static assemblies into dynamic, fully functional electromechanical systems.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to translate ambitious ideas into reality, designing clever surrogate hardware to bypass bottlenecks and hit aggressive timelines.
- Maintain clean, actionable documentation so your custom architectures can be easily serviced, duplicated, or evolved for future projects.
Qualifications
- An understanding of LV and HV vehicle architecture for circuit and wiring design.
- Ability to design PCBs and integrate their functions into vehicle architectures.
- The ability to collaborate to find solutions to complex problems in unfamiliar systems.
- Experience with mechatronics systems such as powering and actuating motors for testing applications.
- The ability to quickly make tradeoffs and decisions to drive progress.
- The ability to develop software for custom prototypes designed within this same role.
- Strong teamwork skills, the ability to collaborate, and a positive attitude.
- Bachelors Degree with an Engineering Focus.