Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform
$265K–$351K
Palo Alto, California · Hybrid · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
About the job
Sets enterprise-wide architecture and strategy for GenAI and agentic applications, integrating LLMs into company software and scaling cognitive automation and distributed machine-learning systems.
What you'll do
- Architect mission-critical LLM-powered agent systems and establish enterprise integration strategy and technical standards.
- Lead the cognitive automation roadmap and align engineering, product, and executive stakeholders on company-wide technical direction.
- Own key systems’ development lifecycle, mentor engineers, and help guide senior and staff-level hiring.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including large-scale distributed systems and production agentic applications leveraging LLMs at enterprise scale.
- Deep proficiency in Python or similar languages; expert knowledge of cloud and container frameworks such as AWS and Kubernetes.
- Expert understanding of machine learning principles, algorithms, evaluation metrics, and distributed-systems engineering practices.
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Expertise in Golang is strongly preferred.
- Company-wide, ideally industry-recognized, technical impact.
Pay
$265,000 – $351,190 USD base salary
Tools
LLMs, Golang, Python, AWS, Kubernetes
AI focus
Architects enterprise-scale agentic applications using LLMs, drives LLM integration and cognitive automation, and establishes standards for production machine-learning systems.
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