Rivian eliminated jobs across its Title and Registration department on Monday, October 12, according to four affected employees, marking at least the fifth reduction at the EV maker since June 2025 and, it appears, the second to reach its customer-facing organization since June.
The company has not announced the reduction and did not respond to a request for comment sent on Tuesday asking it to confirm the layoff, its scale, the departments involved and Chief Executive Officer RJ Scaringe’s position on it.
The accounts cover both of the department’s regional teams, East and West, and run from specialist to team lead, with tenures of three to five years. They do not give a headcount.
Whether other departments were affected on Monday is not established.
Impacted employees contacted by EV declined to comment on the restructuring.
What the employees said
Luis Perdomo, Title & Registration Assistant Manager based in Miami, wrote on LinkedIn on Tuesday that “as of yesterday, I was impacted by a restructuring at Rivian.” He had been with the company five years and one month, and thanked “my East Coast team and the entire Title & Registration team.”
Ruby Torres, a Vehicle Registration Specialist in Orlando with three years at the company, wrote the same day that she “was part of the layoff yesterday at Rivian” and “did not have the chance to say goodbye,” addressing her message to “DMO/Sales & Service,” Rivian’s delivery management, sales and service teams.
Katrina Caraballos, a Sr. Title and Registration Operations Specialist in Palo Alto, California, wrote that after four years “my role with the company has come to it’s end. The West Title and Registration team was affected.”
Monica Reyes, a Team Lead in Title and Registration who joined as a Title Specialist in December 2021 and was promoted in January 2024, wrote that “after nearly 5 years they have decided to eliminate my position. I wish Rivian success as a stockholder and owner.”
Hiring last July
Three months before the cuts, the department was still recruiting. Perdomo posted on July 16 that he was “hiring in my Canton, MA location” for a Title and Registration Operations Specialist, linking a Rivian careers listing.
Title and Registration handles the state paperwork that puts a delivered vehicle on the road.
Rivian’s support site says that “where possible, Rivian handles the DMV title and registration process on behalf of our owners,” rather than routing it through dealers.
The function is a common target for consolidation into a single hub, outsourcing to a national titling vendor or software automation, and its workload rises with every R2 delivered.
Fifth reduction since June 2025
Rivian cut about 140 salaried manufacturing jobs in June 2025 and about 150 commercial roles in September 2025 before more than 600 jobs, about 4.5% of its workforce, on October 23, 2025, after the federal EV tax credit expired.
It still ended 2025 with 15,232 employees, up 2.5%, because it consolidated the Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies joint venture.
On June 16, 2026, days after the R2 launch, Rivian cut hundreds of positions, under 2 percent of staff, in what a spokesperson described to Fox Business as restructuring “a handful of teams within Rivian as we work to profitably scale our business.”
The Wall Street Journal reported those cuts fell on the service and customer organization, which handles sales and marketing.
Torres placed Title and Registration within Rivian’s delivery, sales and service teams, which would make Monday’s cut a second pass through the organization restructured in June.
Rivian has not confirmed how the department is organized. Owners were already complaining in August about service reductions, and a source told EV in July that the 2025 layoffs were behind delivery faults on early R2s.
No WARN notice has been filed for the October reduction in any state, according to WARN Tracker, whose latest Rivian entry is from September 2025.
Federal and California rules require notice only above headcount thresholds at a single site, which a distributed team can fall under.
Cuts in a growth quarter
The timing sits against the strongest operating numbers in Rivian’s history. The company produced 19,751 vehicles and delivered 19,248 in the third quarter, both records, and held 2026 delivery guidance at 65,000 to 70,000. It told EV that the R2 second production shift began before the end of September.
Last week, Rivian drew a $1 billion, ten-year loan at 6.03% through its Volkswagen joint venture, secured by its stake in the venture and with no cash interest due for two years.
The same week as the cuts, Scaringe was a billed speaker at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco and Rivian-backed Mind Robotics hired Doug Field, the former Apple, Tesla and Ford executive, as president.
Rivian reports third-quarter results after the close on October 29, when any restructuring charge for the October reduction would have to be disclosed. Rivian has said it no longer expects to meet its 2027 adjusted core profit target as it raises research and development spending.
Rivian’s shares fell 3.7% to $14.21 in afternoon trading on October 2 after the delivery release, as investors had hoped for a guidance increase.
