Small electric vehicles for moving people and goods, driven and autonomous
ALSO is a Rivian-incubated EV maker building compact connected vehicles, with a stack that pairs automotive engineering tools (CATIA, ANSYS, Abaqus, Simulink) with cloud messaging (Kafka, SQS, SNS) and requirements management in Jama Connect, Polarion and IBM DOORS. Hiring skews heavily toward staff- and senior-level engineers, and Shopify in the stack points to a direct-to-consumer sales channel.
Notable leadership hires: Engineering Technical Lead
ALSO is a privately held electric mobility company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2025 after incubation inside Rivian. It designs small electric vehicles for transporting both people and goods, with driven and autonomous use cases in scope. The company employs 201–500 people and currently hires in the United States. Its work spans vehicle hardware, embedded and cloud software, sensing, and vertically integrated EV systems, supported by in-house sourcing, manufacturing, logistics and service functions.
ALSO uses Python, C++, Java and C# alongside Kafka, Redis, AWS SQS/SNS and AWS X-Ray, with CATIA, ANSYS, Abaqus, MATLAB and Simulink for engineering, plus Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.
Yes. Engineering dominates ALSO's open roles, concentrated at staff and senior levels, with smaller hiring in operations, marketing, manufacturing and product, all in the United States.
ALSO is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It was founded in 2025 after being incubated within Rivian and has 201–500 employees.
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