Sr. Software Engineer – Test Infrastructure & Tooling

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotives next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions were addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.

The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity AI security and more well map a new way forward. Working together well create a future thats more connected more intelligent more sustainable for everyone.

We are seeking a highly experienced senior Software Engineer to join our team to own test infrastructure internal tooling CI/CD and automation for our Consumer Applications test organization in Palo Alto.

In this role you will be the primary engineering owner for building and evolving the systems that power our test teams: from lab and bench tooling to automation frameworks to pipelines that keep our releases safe and fast. You will partner closely with test engineers developers and program leads to define strategy implement scalable solutions and continuously improve how we validate software across mobile cloud and invehicle systems.

If you love building reliable platforms and tools that unblock others and youre excited to shape how we test complex distributed systems this role is for you.

Location: Palo Alto CA (onsite with handson access to lab equipment benches and test infrastructure)

• Own and evolve test infrastructure

  • Design implement and maintain shared test infrastructure for the test team including automation harnesses runners lab/bench tooling and execution services.

  • Build reliable services and libraries that make it easy for test engineers to create run and debug automated tests (e.g. SDKs/CLIs job orchestration logging reporting and artifact handling).

  • Partner with hardware/lab/automation teams (HIL/SIL/benches devices vehicles) to integrate physical test assets into a cohesive softwaredriven test platform.

• Lead CI/CD and automation for testing

  • Own CI/CD pipelines that run unit integration system and endtoend tests for Consumer Applications (mobile cloud infotainment and related services).

  • Define and implement strategies for test selection parallelization flakiness reduction reporting and reliability keeping pipelines fast and trustworthy.

  • Integrate automated testing into premerge and postmerge workflows (e.g. gating rules quality signals dashboards notifications).

• Build internal tools and developer experience

  • Develop internal tools and dashboards for infotainment testing vehicle access testing cloud services and mobile app testing that improve visibility into test runs coverage lab utilization and release readiness.

  • Improve current selfservice interfaces (APIs CLIs web UIs) that allow test engineers and developers to schedule configure and debug tests on shared infrastructure.

  • Standardize test project structure templates and best practices so teams can adopt automation quickly and consistently.

  • Proactively identify gaps in test infrastructure and internal tools and design build and roll out new tools that the team is missing driving adoption and ongoing improvements.

• Drive quality and collaboration across teams

  • Work closely with test engineers SDETs and product/feature teams to understand their scenarios and translate them into robust infrastructure and tooling.

  • Help establish test strategy and testpyramidaligned approaches (unit SIL HIL system and endtoend) that leverage your infrastructure.

  • Participate in technical design reviews provide feedback on testability and promote shiftleft testing and automation across the org.

• Operate measure and continuously improve

  • Own monitoring alerting and SLOs for key pieces of test infrastructure and pipelines.

  • Analyze results from test runs and pipelines to identify bottlenecks flaky areas and highvalue automation investments.

  • Proactively prioritize and deliver improvements that increase stability reliabilitywhile reducing manual work and accelerate release cycles.

  • Ensuring the reliability and stability of test assets to support both manual and automated testing activities across teams.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software/Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or a related field.

• 5 years of hands-on software engineering experience with a focus on test infrastructure tools or CI/CD platforms.

• Strong programming skills in one or more of: Python Go C Java TypeScript/JavaScript with an emphasis on building reliable backend services and tooling.

• Deep experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions Buildkite) and build systems (e.g. Bazel CMake Gradle Buck).

• Proven experience designing and maintaining automation frameworks and infrastructure for complex systems (cloud mobile or embedded).

• Familiarity with cloud platforms and containers (AWS or similar Docker Kubernetes) including secrets management artifact storage and observability tooling.

• Strong understanding of testing concepts and practices (test pyramid flaky test mitigation test isolation mocking stubbing test data management).

• Experience working with or integrating hardwareintheloop (HIL) softwareintheloop (SIL) or lab/bench setups is a plus.

• Comfort with Linux environments scripting (bash) and common developer tools (Git GitHub/GitLab code review workflows).

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to partner across test development and operations teams and to document designs and best practices clearly.

• Strong understanding of modern AI applications and tools (e.g. code assistants testgeneration frameworks log/trace analysis copilots) and experience integrating AI into developer and test workflows and CI/CD.

• A track record of ownership initiative and continuous improvementyou enjoy finding gaps in infrastructure and closing them with thoughtful scalable solutions.

Full-time positions include base salary eligibility for an annual performance bonus and eligibility for equity.

In addition to base salary Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies offers benefits tailored to the local market. For more information on the benefits available for full-time employees check out our Global Benefits Site.

External candidates can apply for this role through the Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies careers site ( If you are a current employee please apply through our internal job board.

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