San Francisco State University

Senior Manager, Factory Data at Rivian

Los Altos, California, United States

We're hiring!Factory Data is the team within Manufacturing Engineer that builds the tight data and model integrations into our factories that enable Rivian to scale with unprecendented quality, speed, and operational performance. We develop the data platforms and tools where manufacturing data is modeled and used by analysts, data scientists, and engineers. And we use those same platforms and tools to deliver analytics, inference, and algorithms critical to Rivian’s mission.

Rivian

Senior Manager, Factory Data

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Senior Manager, Datalab

- Founded Tesla’s central Manufacturing Data Science team comprising Data Scientists, Data System Architects, and Machine Learning Engineers supporting operations and teams in manufacturing• Set organizational direction through selection and deployment of central compute resources and software adopted by 10% of company: Alation, FlexSim, and RStudio Server Pro, RStudio Connect• Managed internal development of software platforms for ETL and object storage moving >3 TB daily• Led machine vision project enabling classification of defects and ±20 μm landmark detection• Led development and deployment of low latency (14 ms) ML classification API replacing 80% of testing on highest-volume manufacturing process, removing Model 3 bottleneck while saving $2M

Tesla

Manager, Manufacturing Data Science

- Responsible for all factory equipment, process and data systems for welded electrical interconnects in battery module, battery pack and drive inverter• Manage team of nine Engineers, Data Scientists and Technicians• Organized cross-functional interconnect technology exploration and decision for Tesla Energy and Model 3 battery module designs• Defined equipment and automation strategy for interconnects in Model 3 battery and drive inverter• Led specification, procurement and integration of $10M equipment project for new production line reducing cycle time 40% while improving product quality

Associate Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

- Led Manufacturing Engineering development and implementation of new process and equipment for battery monitoring system reducing cost and improving reliability• Built laboratory dedicated to development and testing of electrical interconnect technologies enabling mounting, sectioning and polishing samples• Led specification, procurement and integration of $15M equipment project for new production line reducing labor content 35%• Enabled ramp of Model X by reducing cell interconnect failures by order-of-magnitude

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

- Founded a team responsible for all internal and OEM cell interconnect manufacturing• Led the creation of MySQL database schema for tracking millions of records daily• Enabled initial ramp of Model S by reducing cell interconnect failures by 10x Design of Experiments (DoE)• Led Design changes to multiple battery module components to improve product datums and manufacturability• Launched team Confluence space and created standard documentation templates• Collaborated with equipment supplier on custom tooling resolving critical quality issue

Manufacturing Engineer

- Led creation of Service and Remanufacturing program for OEM battery modules• Defined processes, manufacturing instructions, test limits and ESD protocols• Coordinated successful program audits from Daimler AG and Toyota Motor Corp• Managed technicians supporting process validation and providing feedback

BenJoaquin Gouverneur

BenJoaquin Gouverneur