What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Materials Testing Engineer position at Rivian?
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About Rivian
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.
Role Summary
In this role you'll join a diverse group of subject matter experts in the Failure Analysis and Materials Engineering team and bring your own expertise in the domain of materials testing. You will make an impact across every Rivian product line by joining our state-of-the-art Materials Testing Laboratory and by being a champion for data, commonality, engineering standards, and sound scientific principles. You will use your experience to develop material testing specifications, execute testing, and ensure material data is broadly available, easily accessible, and used accurately across Rivian. You will be responsible for managing lab work requests and competing priorities.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Pay Disclosure
Salary Range for Illinois Based Applicants: $89,900 - $112,400 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).
Benefits Summary: Rivian provides robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26. Coverage is effective on the first day of employment and Rivian covers most of the premiums.
Equal Opportunity
Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. 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.
Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at
Candidate Data Privacy
Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes ("Candidate Personal Data"). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian's service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.
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.
Role Summary
In this role you'll join a diverse group of subject matter experts in the Failure Analysis and Materials Engineering team and bring your own expertise in the domain of materials testing. You will make an impact across every Rivian product line by joining our state-of-the-art Materials Testing Laboratory and by being a champion for data, commonality, engineering standards, and sound scientific principles. You will use your experience to develop material testing specifications, execute testing, and ensure material data is broadly available, easily accessible, and used accurately across Rivian. You will be responsible for managing lab work requests and competing priorities.
Responsibilities
- Perform a wide variety of materials testing and validation on materials coming from across Rivian shops.
- Top-notch communication skills and ability to develop testing strategies through 1:1 conversation with engineers, designers, and manufacturing.
- Establish test parameters for unique situations. Design and manufacture testing samples and fixturing for novel testing requirements. Analyze and understand how fixture design may impact testing results.
- Draft drawings for fixtures and test specimens that can be carried out by our machine shop.
- Write, update, and maintain update Rivian materials testing specifications.
- Process and analyze testing data.
- Produce clear and concise reports to summarize data collected. Distill and present technical data to cross-functional teams. Go deeper than numbers and add context to testing results.
- Manage work requests within our LIMS (JIRA). Set day-to-day work priorities for lab team.
- Build and maintain a material property database. Experience with programs such as Ansys Granta or Applus Matereality would be a bonus.
- Comfortable as a primary technical point of contact for all materials testing.
- Oversee equipment maintenance, service, and calibration.
- Capable of safely operating basic metallographic laboratory equipment.
Qualifications
- 4 years of experience in materials testing.
- BS or MS in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or another relevant field.
- Expert level knowledge and experience in mechanical testing in areas including but not limited to:
- High Speed Tensile testing, Fatigue, tension, compression, shear, peel
- Experience writing and editing testing and materials standards.
- Experience with Finite Element Analysis and material modelling
- Experience with computational analysis of material and welds, the generation of static and dynamic test data in support of CAE teams.
- Regular utilization of common industry material testing specifications (ASTM, ISO, AWS, etc.)
- Material testing data processing and analysis. Ability to apply statistical methods to analyze fatigue test results, determine statistical parameters, and plot S-N curves incorporating specific probabilities of failure.
- Experience with material property databases such as Ansys Granta or Applus Matereality.
- Experience with mechanical metallurgy and fracture mechanics. Ability to describe post-test fracture characteristics, fatigue mechanisms, and crack propagation.
- Familiarity with primary automotive structures such as Body, Interior and Chassis assemblies.
- Experience with the metallurgy of steel and aluminum alloys, their manufacturing methods and microstructure features as they relate to material properties.
- Fundamental knowledge of polymers and polymer chemistry.
- Desire to promote a culture of health and safety in the laboratory.
Pay Disclosure
Salary Range for Illinois Based Applicants: $89,900 - $112,400 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).
Benefits Summary: Rivian provides robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26. Coverage is effective on the first day of employment and Rivian covers most of the premiums.
Equal Opportunity
Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. 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.
Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at
Candidate Data Privacy
Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes ("Candidate Personal Data"). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian's service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.
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Salary : $89,900 - $112,400
