Early Career - Durability Analytics Engineer

Job description

Role Summary

No Visa SponsorshipThe Durability Attribute engineers predict and test the range of loads and stresses Rivian vehicles will experience over life and need to be durable for—a challenging prediction problem with many unknowns. With access to large-scale vehicle fleet data and software-defined vehicles that offer greater scope for control and autonomy, vehicle durability is at the forefront of data-driven engineering at Rivian ensuring the “Forever” in Rivian’s mission of Keeping the World Adventurous Forever.

As a Durability Analytics Engineer, you will be part of the collaborative team of simulation, test, and data analytics engineers making Rivian vehicles adventurous yet durable for our customers. You will work with real-world, virtual, and vehicle test data, to identify, classify, and predict customer travel, driving, road surfaces, and other use cases, as well as undesirable events such as ground strikes or recovery events that impact loads on the vehicle and cause lifetime degradation.

You will also develop and correlate a hybrid of data- and physics-based models to predict loads and vibrations at various suspension, body, and propulsion components to reduce the need for repeated complex-physics simulations and instrumented vehicle tests. Through your work, you will have the opportunity to improve process automation, efficiency, and standardization of vehicle durability target development.

Responsibilities

• Fleet Data Analytics:
• Develop fleet data analyses mapping travel, driving, road infrastructure, and vehicle usage across the US and other markets. Build classification models to identify usage archetypes, usage frequency, and their correlations.
• Data-Driven Modeling and Standardization: ,
• Develop and validate machine learning models to estimate vehicle loads, drive events, fatigue damage, and vibration spectra from vehicle CAN data signals, wheel-force transducer data, or accelerometer data.
• Develop models to standardize vibration spectra at different vehicle locations across vehicle variants and platforms.
• Learn from simulation and test data to develop a library of regression models for variance in component loads and fatigue damage with variations in system design parameters and usage types.
• Process Optimization:
• Automate processes such as component block cycle development and accelerated duty cycle development from real-world duty cycle.
• Apply machine learning on past CAE results to develop ways to reduce the number of CAE test cases and runs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science or similar.
• A good understanding of vehicle physics and automotive engineering, is preferred.
• Passion for Rivian’s mission and commitment to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and collaborative workplace.
• 1-3 years experience in data analytics for automotive or related engineering applications, preferred.
• Experience with Python (Pandas, Numpy), PySpark, Matlab, and SQL applied to big datasets. Project or research experience with large time series datasets is desired.
• Demonstrated expertise with various machine learning techniques applied to automotive use data, test data, or simulation data.
• Experience in fatigue life estimation (e.g., Rainflow counting, Miner’s Rule) and statistical methods (e.g., Weibull analysis)
• Demonstrated experience in analytical writing (reports, white papers, publications) and clear-and-concise presentations, with attention to detail.

Pay Disclosure

The salary range for this role is $96,700 - $120,900 for California (Bay area) based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.

The successful candidate may be eligible for annual performance bonus and equity awards. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees.

You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian’s 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part-time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment. More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com. You can apply for this role through careers.rivian.com (or through internal-careers-rivian.icims.com if you are a current employee). This job is not expected to be closed any sooner than 4/30/2026.