Internship Term: Summer 2026
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In this role, you will work closely with the inverter software and cross functionally with other teams on safety critical high impact changes.
- Contribute to ongoing embedded software initiatives, including developing new features or optimizing existing C codebase for the inverter ECU.
- Focus heavily on software integration tasks related to propulsion control and safety.
- Develop unit tests to support software integration and maintain company coding standards.
- Create Python scripts for automation and contribute to the team's
Gitlab pipelines. - Support critical validation efforts, including Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing.
- Must be currently pursuing a bachelors, masters, or PhD degree at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Actively pursuing a degree or one closely related in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- Strong scripting skills in Python
- Proficient in C/C++
- Experience with Git control
- Understanding of how code compiles (pre-processing, compiling, linking)
- Gitlab or CI/CD experience preferred.
- Personal projects involving Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or ESP32 involving bare-metal or driver development is a plus
- Formula SAE or electric vehicle competition experience is a plus.
- Must be enrolled in the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Must be able to work out of our office in the Research Park.
- Must be available for 20 hours per week in the Fall and Spring and 40 hours in the summer
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The salary range for this role is $25.00-40.00 per hour for Normal 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.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and medical insurance benefits. 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 4/24/2026.
Internship positions are not eligible for retirement benefits.