About River River is a design company building personal transportation for livelihood. We focus on creating multi-utility products for those independently carving their own path. We’re building from the ground up, bringing together design, engineering and technology to solve real, everyday problems. Our signature two-wheeler, Indie – The SUV of Scooters, is built to be a dependable companion for getting things done. Today, we’re 1,500+ people solid, headquartered in Bengaluru, and have raised our Series C. River is backed by leading global automotive OEMs, international tech investors, and top institutional asset managers, including Yamaha Motor, Al-Futtaim Automotive Group, Toyota Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Marubeni Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Maniv Mobility, Elev8 Venture Partners, Claypond Capital, Trucks Venture Capital, 360 ONE Asset, HDFC AMC, Singularity AMC, Anicut Capital, and JIF Capital.

Key Responsibilities
• Contribute to the conceptual design and engineering development of vehicle-level and component-level architecture for electric vehicle platforms
• Derive core system control logics and formulate comprehensive test cases to rigorously validate normal operations and edge cases across embedded hardware and software
• Author, review and maintain critical engineering documentation including product requirement documents, software and hardware requirement specifications, DFMEA and design verification plans
• Collaborate cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, firmware and validation engineering teams to guarantee seamless multi-system integration




• Liaise directly with external Tier-1 suppliers and technology partners to align component specifications, delivery milestones and integration standards
• Participate actively across the end-to-end product lifecycle management process from initial concept ideation through to full-scale commercial manufacturing
• Deliver complete technical ownership across core automotive electronic modules including vehicle control units, anti-lock braking systems, instrument clusters, telematics, body control modules and telematics control units
• Investigate field failures swiftly by instituting interim containment actions to safeguard operational uptime
• Execute thorough root-cause analyses and deploy robust permanent corrective actions to prevent recurrence of architectural and embedded flaws
• Integrate firmware-over-the-air update capabilities and model-based systems engineering workflows to future-proof vehicle software architecture Ideal Candidate
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical, Electronics or Mechatronics Engineering
• 3 to 8 years of direct engineering experience in automotive vehicle architecture or component development within the electric vehicle industry
• Possess profound technical knowledge of embedded hardware and software architectures, vehicle communication networks like CAN, and model-based systems engineering
• Apply automotive functional safety standards with a disciplined ISO 26262 mindset alongside practical expertise in firmware-over-the-air protocols
• Demonstrate scripting capability in Python or C++ for test automation, data sheet interpretation and proven experience delivering electronic modules through full development lifecycles

📌 Senior Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 River
📍 Bengaluru