Rivian

Senior Power Electronics Controls Engineer Interview Experience - United States

November 1, 2021

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Process

Great, positive experience. I had a group presentation and a 1:1 with the panel. Questions were asked related to:

Controls
HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop)
Bode plots
Controller hardware-in-the-loop
Typhoon
OPAL-RT
Other real-time simulators

One question was about how to calculate offsets and calibrations for hardware-in-the-loop.

Questions

Explain different topologies of power converters.
How do you control them?
How do you choose bandwidth? Bode plot.

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Rivian's interview process for their Senior Power Electronics Controls Engineer roles in the United States is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

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Rivian Interview Questions

LRU Cache

Medium

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Linked Lists

Number of Islands

Medium

Given a grid representing land and water, count the number of distinct islands. An island is formed by connected land cells.

ArraysGraphs

Rotate String

Easy

Determine if a string can be rotated to match another string. You're essentially checking if one string is a shifted version of the other.

Strings