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About Us 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 softwaredefined 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. Role Summary As a Lead AI Engineer / Technical Lead Manager, you will head the technical direction and execution of our LLM and Agentic Systems strategy, with a specialized focus on bridging cloud intelligence and embedded execution. You will lead a highperforming squad of engineers to develop, finetune, and deploy stateoftheart models that drive core product innovation. You are a 'playercoach' who balances deepdive architectural designincluding model optimization for edge hardwarewith people leadership, ensuring your team delivers scalable, productiongrade AI solutions. Responsibilities Strategic technical leadership: Own the roadmap for LLM integration and Agentic workflow orchestration. Move projects from conceptual research to highavailability production environments, ensuring performance parity across cloud and embedded edge devices. Team management & mentorship: Direct responsibility for the growth of a specialized AI/ML team. Provide technical mentorship in both highlevel generative AI and lowlevel model optimization (quantization, pruning) to ensure your team can deploy to any target. Architecting Agentic Systems: Lead design of complex, multiagent autonomous systems. Oversee frameworks that allow LLMs to automate workflows reliably in both resourceconstrained embedded environments and highcompute cloud environments. System integration & scalability: Partner with platform and hardware teams to architect the 'AI/ML Backbone.' Ensure infrastructure supports lowlatency ondevice inference, vector database scaling, and efficient data exchange across the hardware ecosystem. Defining 'ProductionGrade': Establish rigorous standards for MLOps and TinyMLOps, including CI/CD for ML, automated evaluation frameworks (RAG metrics, hardwarespecific latency benchmarking), and model health monitoring. Cognitive automation strategy: Identify highimpact opportunities for cognitive automation (e.g., local summarization, realtime reasoning) and delegate execution to maximize accuracy within the power and memory envelopes of our hardware. Crossfunctional diplomacy: Act as the primary liaison between AI engineering and product, legal, and hardware stakeholders. Translate complex ML constraintssuch as SRAM limitations or NPU capabilitiesinto clear business tradeoffs. Qualifications Advanced degree: Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field. Proven leadership: 7+ years of total experience in ML/software engineering, with 2+ years in a lead or management role managing small to midsize technical teams. Generative AI & optimization expertise: Extensive experience with LLM finetuning (PEFT, LoRA) and a solid understanding of model compression techniques (INT8/FP16 quantization) for deployment. Technical stack: Mastery of Python and PyTorch/TensorFlow. Strong proficiency in C++ or Rust highly preferred for developing performancecritical inference engines on embedded targets. Production lifecycle: Proven track record of taking ML models from notebook to 24/7 production environments, including experience with Edge AI runtimes (e.g., TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, or TFLite). Strategic mindset: Ability to balance the bleeding edge of research with the pragmatic needs of stable, lowpower, and maintainable embedded products. Pay Disclosure Salary Range for Toronto Based Applicants: $152,200.00 $201,730.00. The posted salary represents the lowest and highest ranges RV Tech reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position. Any posted salary range pertains only to the estimated starting pay for the role. Actual starting pay is based on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidates experience, skillset, qualifications, specific competencies, relevant education, and location. Total Rewards Total compensation packages for this position include base salary, eligibility for an annual performance bonus, and eligibility for equity. In addition, our benefits package has been designed to support the health and wellness of our employees. Benefit offerings include Flex Time Off, retirement savings plans as well as medical, vision and dental coverage. For more information on RV Techs comprehensive benefits package for fulltime employees, check out our Global Benefits Site. Equal Opportunity Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equalopportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law. We are also committed to ensuring compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws regarding citizenship and immigration status. Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. 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