Sr. AI Engineer, Enterprise Applied AI - Rivian - Palo Alto, CA

About Rivian

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.

As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.

Role Summary

Join the Enterprise Applied AI team to build and ship production AI experiences and platforms that help internal teams work smarter and faster. As an AI Engineer, you will contribute across the stack, from data pipelines and retrieval to prompt/agent logic, evaluation/guardrails, and serving. You will collaborate closely with partners across Operations, Product, Sales, Customer Service, Finance, HR, and other internal teams to understand needs and deliver practical solutions that create tangible business value. You will develop responsibly, partnering with governance stakeholders on privacy, security, compliance, and safety.

Responsibilities

Build features and services across the AI stack: orchestration, retrieval/grounding, prompt/agent logic, evaluation/guardrails, serving, and observability.Implement robust data processing and integration pipelines to enable high-quality AI applications and analytics.Contribute to design docs, code reviews, testing, and operational playbooks to ensure reliability, maintainability, and resilience.Partner with product and business stakeholders to define requirements, iterate quickly, and measure outcomes using clear success metrics.Instrument telemetry and evaluation to monitor quality, safety, latency, and cost; improve performance based on data.Follow responsible AI practices for security, privacy, compliance, and safety in collaboration with governance teams.Participate in on-call and inc