About Us

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re 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, we’ll map a new way forward. Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.

Role Summary

We are seeking a technically rigorous Requirements Manager to own vehicle-level requirements across programs and translate them into user stories. You bring a strong systems engineering background, can abstract lower-level requirements up to vehicle level, harmonize them into a coherent baseline, and ensure every requirement meets RV Tech's quality standards before it enters execution scope. You are highly organized and structured, bringing clarity to complex, ambiguous problem spaces across multiple parallel streams. You are flexible and open-minded, prioritizing evolving program needs without losing sight of the bigger picture. You are effective in execution, delivering results and driving topics to closure. You are a strong communicator who bridges deeply technical engineering teams and program-level stakeholders, and you are a collaborative, proactive team player. This role is located at our Irvine, California office.

Responsibilities

Vehicle-Level Requirements & Systems Engineering

Own the vehicle-level requirements inside RV Tech across programs. You define the quality standards and structure for incoming requirements before they enter engineering scope.

Drive the consistent creation of user stories from vehicle requirements. You ensure they are testable, traceable, and aligned with SoWs and the feature list.

Apply systems engineering principles to decompose and abstract requirements across system hierarchy levels, from component and subsystem up to vehicle level.

Challenge overly detailed or prescriptive requirements that describe legacy solutions rather than desired vehicle-level outcomes. You re-focus them with intent to unlock SDV narrative and RV Techs product strategy across programs.

Map technical interdependencies between domains (software, E/E architecture, mechanical, functional safety) and harmonize cross-functional requirements, identifying conflicts, redundancies, and gaps.

Create own standards for requirements to describe vehicle level test cases and product behavior (e.g. QLAHs)

Align requirement scope with parent company stakeholders (Rivian, VW Group brands) and domain PMs, interface with system architects to validate feasibility and allocation.

Requirement Intake and Stakeholder Interfaces

Establish and maintain quality gates and checklists for requirement intake, ensure consistent application of user story methodology across programs.

Translate vehicle-level and cross-functional requirements into well-structured user stories with acceptance criteria, regulatory traceability and test cases.

Work on the interface between RV Tech’s Product & Portfolio team (Feature Intake, BOF CCB and Change management), the parent stakeholders and RV Techs System teams.

Define and maintain a clear requirements structure and traceability from vehicle-level towards component-level.

Serve as the primary interface to system architects and Tech leads for requirements topics, define quality metrics, and drive escalations

Qualifications

6+ years in requirements engineering, systems engineering, or related discipline in automotive / mobility-tech.

Strong systems engineering background with ability to work across multiple teams and multiple levels of abstraction

Deep understanding of automotive E/E architectures, SDV platforms, and cross-domain technical interdependencies.

Hands-on experience with RM tools (Flow or Codebeamer).