Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform
$206K–$284K
Palo Alto, California · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's, Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
About the job
Leads organization-wide architecture and delivery of production agentic applications that integrate LLMs into internal and customer-facing systems to automate workflows and improve decision-making.
What you'll do
- Architect agentic systems and set strategy for LLM integration and cognitive automation across the organization.
- Own the development lifecycle and engineering standards for scalable, reliable, observable distributed machine-learning applications.
- Align executives and cross-functional teams on technical direction, and mentor engineers and support hiring.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, focused on large-scale distributed systems, with production experience building complex LLM-powered agentic applications and demonstrated organization-wide technical impact.
- Proficiency in Python or similar programming languages, and deep expertise with cloud and container frameworks such as AWS and Kubernetes.
- Expert-level understanding of machine-learning principles, algorithms, evaluation metrics, and distributed-systems engineering practices.
- Track record of owning scalable backend software design, deployment, and operation in high-stakes production environments at significant organizational scale.
Nice to have
- Expertise in Golang is strongly preferred.
Pay
$206.5K – $283.9K (base salary)
Tools
LLMs, Golang, Python, AWS, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build and operate production LLM-based agents and cognitive automation for information extraction, summarization, question answering, workflow automation, and decision-making.
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