Sr. NVH Technician

We are seeking an NVH Development Technician to drive hands-on noise and vibration development within our NVH team. This is a development-focused role: you will instrument vehicles, run subjective and objective NVH evaluations, build and iterate on countermeasures, and work side-by-side with engineering staff to root-cause and resolve challenging prototype issues. Vehicle repair and part-swap work is part of the job, but it exists in service of development — enabling rapid build-test-learn cycles on prototype hardware. The ideal candidate brings strong measurement and diagnostic instincts, a collaborative attitude, and the ability to deliver high-quality work with minimal supervision while helping improve the quietness and overall quality of Rivian vehicles.

• Vehicle NVH development: Troubleshoot, diagnose, and develop solutions to vehicle noise and vibration issues across full-vehicle and subsystem levels, iterating on countermeasures and assessing their effectiveness.

• Instrumentation & measurement: Plan and install NVH instrumentation on development vehicles, configure data acquisition systems, and capture high-quality measurement data for engineering analysis.

• Test execution: Conduct road, track, and facility-based NVH evaluations; perform subjective assessments and document findings to support engineering decisions.

• Development support: Partner with engineering teams to enable rapid build-test-learn cycles, turning proposed design changes into testable vehicle configurations quickly.

• Capability building: Maintain and improve NVH instrumentation, tooling, and workshop capability; contribute to test procedures and best practices.

• Vehicle readiness: Perform repairs, part changes, and inspections needed to keep development vehicles available and in known configuration.

• Demonstrated ability to root-cause vehicle NVH issues on prototype and development hardware, and to propose, build, and validate countermeasures.

• Familiarity with NVH test methodologies (road and track evaluations, chassis dyno, static and operational testing) and the ability to execute test plans independently and repeatably.

• Strong subjective evaluation skills, with the ability to describe, rate, and correlate vehicle NVH characteristics to measured data.

• Experience fabricating, fitting, and iterating on development-level countermeasures (damping, isolation, sealing, absorption, bracketry) on prototype vehicles.

• 5+ years of experience in automotive repair, prototype build, or a closely related technical field, with the ability to perform repairs, part swaps, and vehicle inspections in support of development work.

• Strong understanding of vehicle systems, ideally EV architecture, with a focus on safety.

• Organization & Work Ethic: Motivated self-starter with strong attention to detail, eagerness to learn, and the ability to support multiple development programs in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong communication skills, clean driver's license, and ability to travel up to 20%.