Senior Android Build Engineer - Vehicle Software

Role Summary:

Rivian’s Infotainment team is looking out for a candidate who can contribute to the design, development and validation of infotainment platforms for current/next generation Rivian vehicles.

Candidate should be detail-oriented and have strong analytical and debugging skills, strong communication skills (written and verbal), working with teams across multiple time zones. 

Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop and lead implementation of a performant and efficient build system
• Analyze requirements and help onboard new components and software stacks
• Integrate third-party and open-source software in the build system
• Identify and set new technical directions to improve build and development process
• Consistently drive down the build times
• Participate in release process
• Develop tools, and solutions for CI / CD workflow
• Work with other cross-functional teams and convert business requirements into engineering requirements
• Be a dynamic cross-functional technical leader enabling other dependent teams (like QA, Integration and Program management)
• Help with new platform bring ups
• Help integrate periodic updates to third-party and open-source software

Qualifications:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of knowledge, skill and/or ability.
• 5+ years of experience with build tools like GNU Make, Cmake, Gradle, Soong and Bazel
• Strong experience with Android build and packaging system preferred
• 5+ years of experience with scripting languages like Python and/or Shell
• Embedded - software development, tools and build-release engineering experience preferred
• Linux experience, preferably Ubuntu or Redhat
• Fundamental understanding of OS drivers and packages
• Good understanding of private and public clouds
• Experience working with next generation Object/Block storage (S3, Swift, etc...)
• Ability to be creative/resourceful - to work in a fast-paced startup environment
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Good to have

• 2+ years of experience with embedded or Linux software development using C/C++