Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

From day one at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies, you're building. 💡 Students from University of Washington, UC Irvine, University of California, Berkeley University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, The University of British Columbia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and more just joined our Vancouver, Palo Alto, Irvine, and Champaign-Urbana teams working on the real, hard problems of building software-defined vehicles. More interns arrive in June (Lund) and July (Belgrade and Berlin). Six cities, four countries, one summer. The task of everyone at RV Tech is to contribute — to ship code, solve hard problems, and leave something behind that lasts — regardless of title. This group brings curiosity, fresh eyes, and questions that make hard problems easier to crack. Some of the people who will shape this industry are in this cohort and we can’t wait to see what they do this summer. Welcome, interns! We're glad you're here. Where are you building this summer? 👇 #RVTech | #Internship | #SDV | #Hiring | #SoftwareDefinedVehicles

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies’ Canadian team earned a Great Place To Work certification. Our people made it official!   92% of our Canadian teammates say RV Tech is a great place to work. The culture we've built, the work we're doing, and the team we're growing – the number reflects something real.   To our Vancouver and Toronto teams, thank you for making this place worth certifying.   We're still building. Come join us!   🔗https://lnkd.in/g7aTWc5d   #RVTech | #GreatPlaceToWork | #GPTW | #Hiring

We recently celebrated the opening of two new purpose-built Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies spaces for our teams doing purposeful work in Irvine and Belgrade. Irvine puts us at the center of one of the most active automotive and technology corridors in North America. Belgrade gives us a home in a deep engineering talent market — a city where our team has been heads-down building for a while now.   Delivering the platform that powers software-defined vehicles for Rivian and the Volkswagen Group takes exceptional people, in the right places. These offices are how we scale that.   We're hiring. Come build with us!   🔗 https://lnkd.in/g7aTWc5d   #RVTech | #SDV | #SoftwareDefinedVehicle | #Hiring

Big news from Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies! Fifteen months ago, Rivian and Volkswagen Group established RV Tech. Today, we're proud to share we’ve completed the comprehensive winter testing program for our SDV zonal architecture. We were successful in validating the platform in some of the most demanding conditions the automotive world uses to prove out production-intent systems. Three vehicles. Two continents. Teams from Volkswagen, AUDI AG, Scout Motors Inc., and RV Tech working as one. The software-defined vehicle promises a lot: it means that a car gets better over time, knows its driver, and adapts to conditions before a driver even notices them. That goal is straightforward in concept, and hard in practice. It requires an architecture that actually works and, more importantly, the talented people to build it. Congratulations to our teams everywhere! More to come. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dyaYkQFb --- What problem do you think software-defined vehicles will solve for everyday drivers? We’d love to hear your perspective! 👇 #RVTech | #SDV | #Volkswagen | #Audi | #Scout | #Rivian

Congratulations to our friends at Rivian on being named one of Fortune's Most Innovative Companies — for the first time ever! Well earned. This is what happens when an incredible team refuses to settle for the status quo. Proud to be in their corner!

90+ projects. 600+ participants. One global hackathon. 🌍 We just wrapped Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies' first-ever Excellence at Scale Hackathon — where teammates across Palo Alto, Irvine, Vancouver, Belgrade, Germany, Sweden, and remote locations came together to build with AI, tackle tech debt, and ship higher-quality software. At RV Tech, we believe AI doesn't replace great engineers — it gives them their time back. When you remove the friction and the noise, you free people up to do the creative, high-impact work that actually moves the needle. That's the kind of engineering culture we're building here. And the real win from this hackathon? Seeing teammates finally get the time and space to learn new AI tools, experiment freely, and solve real problems. As we heard in the closing ceremony: the goal wasn't just to crown winners. It was to be smarter than we were last week. This is just the beginning. 💡 Excited about building with AI and solving hard problems? Join us! Explore open roles at RV Tech: https://lnkd.in/g2vfehnq #RVTech | #ExcellenceAtScale | #AIEngineering | #SoftwareDefinedVehicle

What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than to highlight our incredible team in Belgrade? Last week they hosted a Heapspace meetup with our friends at Rivian, "Female Rock Stars: The Symphony of an SDV."  They went deep on modular software, functional safety, data and telemetry, and what it takes to scale our vehicle architecture across the Volkswagen Group. 💡 "Since we are now developing software for a broad range of different vehicles, our approach to scalability has really become central to our daily work." – Lena Novović Major shoutout to Lena, Milka Jakovljević, and Tijana Djordjevic for representing our technical craft so perfectly. 🚙 💜 #IWD26 | #InternationalWomensDay | #WomenInTech | #RVTech |  #SoftwareDefinedVehicle

Huge day for R2 and Rivian! It’s amazing to hear the world finally react to what the team has been building behind the scenes. Congratulations to everyone on this huge milestone. Check out Wassym Bensaid’s post below for the highlights. R2 is packed with game-changing features—what are you most excited for the world to experience? Drop it in the thread. 👇 P.S. We are growing! If you or someone you know is interested in building the exceptional, send them here: https://lnkd.in/dZtq-hqJ

A new day has dawned with our interns starting – we officially kicked off our Winter/Spring 2026 session, welcoming 30 new interns to our teams in Palo Alto, Vancouver, Normal, and UIUC Research Park. Our interns are a vital part of who we are. They join us to challenge our thinking, stress-test our ideas, and bring that "day-one" curiosity that drives our momentum forward. Seeing this group dive into their projects over the last few days has been a great reminder that the best innovation happens when you bring diverse perspectives and fresh academic insights into the room. To our new colleagues: Welcome to Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies! We are glad you’re here. Thank you for choosing to grow your career with us. Interested in joining the RV Tech team? See our open opportunities here: https://lnkd.in/g2vfehnq #RVTech | #Internships2026 | #SoftwareDefinedVehicle

We had an incredible time hosting the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) Digital Key™ Plugfest last week at our Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies office in Palo Alto! It was inspiring to bring together industry leaders from Apple, AUMOVIO, BMW Group, DEKRA, Ellisys, General Motors, Google, Hyundai Motor Company, Lucid Motors, Marquardt Group, Mercedes-Benz AG, Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company), Rivian, and Volkswagen Group under one roof to advance the global standard for secure, seamless vehicle access. For us, Plugfest is about more than just meeting face-to-face; it’s about accelerating the future of interoperability. By testing platforms and firmware in real-time alongside our partners, we’re able to fine-tune our systems to ensure a flawless, industry-defining Digital Key experience for customers. We’re grateful for the opportunity to host this event and work alongside the CCC community to move this technology forward. A huge thank you to everyone who participated and helped push the boundaries of digital connectivity. #CCCDigitalKey | #Plugfest16 | #RVTech | #Interoperability | #SoftwareDefinedVehicle | #DigitalKey