Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Staff AI Engineer, Enterprise AI
$206K–$284K
Palo Alto, California · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years (Staff) or 12+ years (Senior Staff) in software engineering, with a track record of delivering production systems in enterprise environments.
- Education
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Productionize and scale AI-powered developer tools and workflows across the company’s software engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Build reusable, model-portable AI tooling and services, including agent runtimes, evaluations, guardrails, and monitoring.
- Integrate AI into the development lifecycle and own end-to-end reliability, observability, cost, security, privacy, and auditability.
- Measure tooling impact, collaborate across engineering teams, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building and operating AI-native developer tools, internal platforms, or CI/CD systems in production.
- Hands-on production experience with language models and agents, including tool use, context management, and evaluation across open-source and proprietary models.
- Experience designing portable abstractions across model providers and frameworks, collaborating across teams, and mentoring engineers.
- Working knowledge of security, privacy, and auditability for AI-enabled developer tooling.
Pay
$206.5K – $283.9K (base salary)
Tools
language models, agents, CI/CD
AI focus
Productionize AI-native developer tooling and agentic workflows; build model-portable AI services, evaluations, guardrails, monitoring, and AI-enabled development workflows.
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