Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Senior Systems Integration Engineer, Simulation Platform
$135K–$186K
Irvine, California +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- Irvine, California
Palo Alto, California - Experience
- 5+ years in embedded automotive software, or an equivalent demonstrated record.
- Education
- BS/MS in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated experience.
About the job
Owns the standards, interfaces, tooling, and integration process for running production embedded vehicle controllers within a full-vehicle simulation platform.
What you'll do
- Define and drive adoption of standards and automation that make controller software releases simulation-ready.
- Define controller interfaces to the simulated vehicle and maintain tooling that keeps them complete, consistent, and current.
- Integrate vehicle controllers into the simulation, own full-vehicle composition, diagnose boundary defects, and maintain simulation CI gates.
What they ask for
- Deep familiarity with modern embedded build systems and large firmware codebases.
- Strong C and Python, including integrating compiled embedded code with host-side tooling.
- CI/CD ownership, including pipelines consumed by other teams.
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical standards to adoption across teams.
Nice to have
- Software-in-the-loop or virtual-ECU experience.
- Automotive middleware and network fluency, hardware-in-the-loop integration, or organization-wide tooling contributions.
Pay
$135.1K – $185.8K USD base salary
Tools
C, Python, AUTOSAR, CAN, Ethernet, DBC, ARXML
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