Rivian is hiring a senior development lead to build out its commercial real-estate footprint in Europe, according to a job posting on the company’s website, the latest sign of the US EV maker’s expansion plans for the region.
The new job posting comes three months after the company removed the 2027 target from its European website, as EV reported at the time.
The position, titled ‘Lead, Development, Commercial Facilities,’ sits within the EV maker’s Facilities & Real Estate organization and is based in Amsterdam — where Rivian established its European entity, Rivian Europe B.V., in 2020.
According to the job description — first reported by the Rivian owner and content creator Chris Hilbert on X — the role “will steward the physical foundation of Rivian‘s European market entry.”
The successful candidate will “represent Rivian‘s interests in the design, execution, and strategy of all commercial capital expenditure—including Sales, Service, Delivery, and Parts Distribution facilities—across diverse European markets and jurisdictions.”
A Strategic Hire
The role is initially described as an individual contributor position.
However, the company notes it offers “a high-potential leadership track to build and manage a dedicated regional Development team.”
The person selection will report into the company’s broader Commercial Development organization, which in the US covers Retail, Service, and Delivery locations.
Responsibilities listed in the posting span four areas: regional governance and standards, supply chain and commercial readiness, project delivery and technical translation, and operational execution.
On the regulatory side, the lead will cultivate “strategic top-down relationships with key regulatory bodies (e.g., utility companies, regional permitting authorities) in priority expansion countries.”
The posting describes the lead as the “primary point of contact” to ensure European partners are trained to deliver Rivian‘s specific technical requirements.
The role acts as a translator between the company’s global design intent and “local European regulatory codes (e.g., Eurocodes, national fire/safety standards).”
Existing Footprint Through Amazon
While its passenger business has not yet launched in Europe, Rivian already operates a partial physical footprint on the continent through its commercial vehicle partnership with Amazon.
Since 2023, the EV maker has had “over 300” electric delivery vans operating in Europe in service of its main backer.
The company has kept open several job listings for Mobile Automotive Mechatronics Technicians in Munich to support that fleet.
European Launch Timeline Undefined
The hire lands as Rivian‘s European launch timeline remains officially open-ended.
Earlier this year, the EV maker quietly removed its previously stated 2027 European launch year from its website, replacing it with the message “Rivian is coming to Europe — be one of the first to get the latest news and updates.”
The company’s website now lists dedicated pages for 18 European countries — including the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, and Austria — though no launch dates are provided for any market.
The R2 mid-size SUV is the model the EV maker has long positioned as its European market entry vehicle.
On the sales model itself, founder and CEO RJ Scaringe said last September that direct-to-consumer “is still the plan for Europe.”
However, Scaringe acknowledged at the time that the continent supports “more of an omnichannel-based approach” than the US.
CFO Claire McDonough has since hinted that Rivian could adopt a hybrid dealership model in some European markets.
R2 Designed as a World Car
McDonough has previously described the smaller R2 as the company’s “primary global scaling product” internationally.
The model was developed with European dimensions and repairability standards in mind, and was confirmed in March as one of the first vehicles globally to launch with the new GSMA SGP.32 eSIM automotive standard.
The Amsterdam build-out positions Rivian to capture the international demand the R2 was explicitly engineered for.
In March, the company’s Director of Exterior Design Michael Castiglione reaffirmed in a Forbes interview that the mid-size SUV was developed for several international markets — including Europe and potentially China.
“So we’re currently looking at Europe, potentially China, other things like that, so it’s more of a world car,” Castiglione said.
The designer emphasised that the mid-size SUV segment is the largest in the world, and that the EV maker is “hoping that we can sell it in more places other than the United States.”
Rivian is targeting 20,000 to 25,000 R2 deliveries in 2026 within a total guidance of 62,000 to 67,000 vehicles across its lineup.
Other Job Postings in Europe
Rivian‘s careers website currently lists multiple openings across Belgrade in Serbia, Lund in Sweden, and London in the UK — alongside the Munich-based mobile service technician roles posted over the last months.
The UK team is hiring across at least eight Autonomous Driving-focused positions, including Staff Software Engineer roles in ML Training and Inference Infrastructure, Perception, and Middleware, as well as Senior Machine Learning Engineer roles in AI Infrastructure and Perception.
London became Rivian‘s newest international office in July 2025, when the company announced an AI and Autonomous Driving hub in London — its first facility in the UK.
The Belgrade office has nine open roles ranging from Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to Cybersecurity Application Security Engineer, Data Engineer II, Senior Analytics Engineer for Service Parts, Senior DevOps Engineer, and Software Engineer II for Facilities.
Rivian‘s Belgrade engineering office is its largest non-US footprint, having grown from 15 employees at the end of 2022 to 383 at the end of 2025, focused on vehicle software and advanced driver-assistance systems development.
The Lund team is hiring Senior Embedded Software Engineers for Vehicle Access Systems, a Senior Android Engineer for Trip Planner Firmware, and a Staff Software Test Engineer, among others.
Rivian‘s Swedish presence traces back to the company’s 2023 acquisition of Iternio, the Lund-based startup behind the A Better Routeplanner (ABRP) EV trip planning app.
The Lund office is co-located with the Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies joint venture, which as of last November operated in the US, Canada, Sweden, Serbia, and — as of recently — Germany with over 1,500 employees.
