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.
We operate development centers in Plymouth, Michigan; Southern California (Irvine, Carson & LA); Silicon Valley (San Jose and Palo Alto); Vancouver, British Columbia; and Surrey, England; as well as a manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois.
Role Summary
Reliability is at the core of Electric Adventure Vehicles. As a Reliability Data Scientist, you will play a key role in using data to improve the field safety and reliability performance of Rivian products.
Responsibilities
- Work with vehicle telemetry data at scale to provide insight on the reliability of Rivian products
- Develop statistical and machine learning models for predicting and forecasting field failures.
- Work cross functionally with Reliability, Design and Test engineers to write a physics of failure model in python/scala/golang and build a scalable data pipeline to aggregate usage, environmental conditions and stresses on the vehicle systems across the fleet.
- Build scalable full stack infrastructure and data pipelines to aggregate telemetry and service data in order to monitor and predict failures in the field.
- Research and development of multivariate models for prognostics applications.
Qualifications
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Minimum requirement is a Bachelor of Science in an engineering, mathematics, physics, computer science or quantitative discipline.
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Preferably 3 or more years of industry experience in a data science or software engineering role or Masters/PhD. Level of role depends on experience and qualifications.
Domain Knowledge:
Must have Data Science domain knowledge:
- Experience working with data in sql and python
- Strong fundamentals in software engineering with python
- Understanding of statistical and machine learning concepts
- Data visualization and communication best practices
Bonus:
- Experience with data at scale technologies such as spark/hadoop/hive/presto/beam
- Cloud infrastructure AWS/GCP with terraform/docker
- Programming in multiple languages such as golang/scala/C/C++
- Experience with survival models and MCMC methods for Bayesian estimation
- Experience with prognostics and health management
- Working knowledge of mathematical or advanced machine learning concepts
Equal Opportunity
Rivian is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Rivian is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Rivian are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Rivian will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Rivian encourages applicants of all ages.
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