Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- Software, Embedded
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you design and develop software connecting vehicle and cloud systems, implementing communication services and APIs for partner integrations while ensuring compatibility and support.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- The Berlin team is looking for a Software Engineer - Connected Vehicle Platform, to design, build, and operate software connecting vehicle systems with infotainment, cloud, and mobile ecosystems.
- You will bridge low-level communication paths and high-level vehicle interfaces, developing reusable platform capabilities while supporting brand-specific configurations.
- This role combines software development, systems integration, troubleshooting, and developer enablement.
- You will help turn vehicle signals and hardware capabilities into dependable services, libraries, gateway behaviors, and APIs that partner engineers can discover, integrate, test, and use successfully.
- The role is well suited to a developer who enjoys working across system boundaries and taking software from design through production support.
- Design, develop, test, and maintain communication services, client libraries, gateway and routing components, and deployment configurations; implement message publication and subscription, request/reply interactions, service discovery, signal routing, gateway translation, and reliable failure handling.
- Contribute to software components written in C++, Rust, Go, Kotlin, or other languages used across vehicle and cloud platform layers; evolve interface contracts, schemas, configuration models, and generated APIs while preserving compatibility for existing consumers.
- Decide whether functionality belongs in a reusable platform abstraction, gateway mapping, vehicle service, application, or vehicle- or brand-specific integration; deploy and validate services across vehicle-oriented compute platforms, virtualized embedded environments, simulators, software-in-the-loop systems, benches, and prototype vehicles.
- Investigate issues across vehicle interfaces, gateways, message-passing services, vehicle-model APIs, and consuming applications using logs, traces, packet captures, diagnostics, and test tools; improve reliability, performance, observability, security, deployment automation, and test coverage.
- Support partner developers through integration guidance, examples, troubleshooting, documentation, and technical issue triage; collaborate with hardware, firmware, embedded, cloud, infotainment, security, validation, product, and external partner teams.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident follow-up, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience) plus 3+ years developing software in distributed systems, embedded platforms, or middleware; strong C++, Rust, Go, or Kotlin skills across a multi-language platform.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of mutual TLS, auth, telemetry (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), and end-to-end troubleshooting using logs, traces, and packet captures.
Experience
- Experience with messaging, gRPC, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and designing or using Protobuf contracts (or equivalent), APIs, and schemas.
- Familiarity with CAN/DBC, vehicle gateways, signal integration, and connected devices; physical-input or HMI gateway experience is a plus.
- Ability to deploy and debug on embedded/virtual platforms (Android Automotive, Linux, test benches, simulators) with experience in CI/CD, Docker, or Bazel.
- Strong communication skills to support developer adoption via SDKs and docs; experience with platform abstractions, automotive partners, Clean Architecture, and TDD/DDD.
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What we offer
- In addition to a competitive base salary, full-time positions may be eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program.
- Payments are discretionary and not guaranteed; actual amounts depend on company results and the terms of the plan in effect, and require active employment at the time of payout.
- This role is also eligible for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), subject to board approval and the terms of our equity incentive plans, including applicable vesting requirements.
- In addition to our compensation programs, we invest in our people with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health, wellbeing, and financial future for full-time employees - including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs.
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About Your Employer
Rivian
Rivian Automotive, Inc. is a US-based manufacturer of electric vehicles located in Irvine, California. The company focuses on the development of electric cars and offers additional services such as financing and maintenance. Rivian collaborates with partners like Amazon and Volkswagen to create advanced technologies for electric vehicles.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Vehicle Manufacturing, Supplier
Software Engineer Connected Vehicle Platform
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
