Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Sr. Vehicle Modeling Engineer, Applied AI Systems
$135K–$186K
Irvine, California +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Location
- Irvine, California
Palo Alto, California - Education
- BS/MS in Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering, or related field—or equivalent demonstrated experience through projects.
About the job
Develop and operate Digital Twin and AI-assisted systems engineering tools for vehicle subsystems, while contributing hands-on requirements, analysis, testing, and design reviews.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain vehicle plant models and FMI-based co-simulation for model-to-code validation, SIL regression testing, and field issue replay.
- Develop LLM pipelines, semantic search, and RAG tools for requirements, test generation, coverage analysis, and root-cause analysis; integrate them with engineering systems.
- Author requirements and test cases, participate in architecture and safety reviews, and document AI-augmented engineering practices.
What they ask for
- BS/MS in Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering, or related field—or equivalent demonstrated experience through projects.
- Strong Python skills for data processing, AI workflow prototyping, automation, or microservices.
- Practical experience building LLM applications, such as RAG pipelines, semantic search, structured reasoning, or agent frameworks.
- Ability to decompose physical products into subsystems, behaviors, and interfaces, and iterate from prototype to production using modelling.
Nice to have
- Experience with physical simulation tools or FMI/FMU co-simulation; hands-on physical systems projects.
- Automotive systems engineering artifacts, LLM evaluation, GitLab CI/CD, AI engineering portfolio, or fault analysis methods.
Pay
$135.1K – $185.8K USD base salary; annual bonus target of 10% (bonus target; amount not stated)
Tools
Python, OpenModelica, Julia, Simulink, LangChain, LlamaIndex, GitLab, FMI/FMU
AI focus
Build and deploy LLM-assisted requirements and test pipelines, semantic search and RAG, AI analytics over engineering and fleet data, and integrations with GitLab and test management systems.
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