Rivian Automotive, Inc. (RIVN)
EV plant with direct sales, service and software. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 106 of the 161 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
31%
Employees, annual report
15,232
Leading staffing pattern
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202727%
- End of 202831%
- End of 203033%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 67%
- Becomes checking a model's work 25%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing states 15,232 employees including its consolidated joint venture, across production, direct sales and service, and software and engineering teams, with no count by team.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 17% now, 27% at the end of 2027, 31% at the end of 2028, 33% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 33% desk work, 20% people work and 47% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 67% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 25% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
15,232 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; the employees are across North America and Europe, with the plant in Normal, Illinois and the Georgia facility under development.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, including the consolidated Joint Venture, we had 15,232 employees across North America and Europe.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Manufacturing | 65% | The filing describes operations teams that produce the vehicles, engineering and technology teams designing future products, and general and administrative teams, read at motor vehicle manufacturing by description (c), the larger part of the workforce; automotive is 71% of revenue. |
| Automobile Dealers | 20% | The go-to-market teams that sell and service the vehicles directly, in company-operated sales and service centers, are read at automobile dealers by description (c), since the filing counts no employees by team. |
| Software Publishers | 15% | Software and services are 29% of revenue, and the consolidated joint venture included in the count develops the electrical architecture and software platform, read at software publishers by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 15,232 employees including the consolidated joint venture, across North America and Europe; operations and go-to-market teams, engineering and technology teams, and general and administrative teams; no hourly, part-time or union figure stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Ford (F, 169,000 employees)15% now, 26% by 2028
- General Motors (GM, 156,000 employees)15% now, 26% by 2028
- Tesla (TSLA, 134,785 employees)15% now, 25% by 2028
- PACCAR Inc (PCAR, 25,900 employees)16% now, 26% by 2028
- Lucid Group, Inc. (LCID, 9,000 employees)15% now, 24% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
23 sentences in the filing name AI. Twenty-three sentences: the company says its in-house autonomy system is designed with an AI-centric end-to-end approach trained on miles driven by its vehicles, and that an AI platform underpins its products, software and services including Autonomy+.
- “Through innovation across its electrical architecture, end-to-end software, autonomous driving platform, artificial intelligence, and propulsion, the Company creates vehicles that excel at work and play with the goal of accelerating the global transition to zero-emission transportation and energy.”
- “Our in-house autonomy system has been designed with an AI-centric end-to-end approach and leverages the large amount of miles driven by Rivian vehicles for training, enabling the Company to continuously improve the system.”
- “Interconnected by our AI platform, Rivian unified intelligence underpins our products and suite of software and services including Autonomy+, designed to deliver fast-paced innovation cycles, structural cost advantages, and exceptional customer experiences.”
- “Our vehicles provide advanced driver assistance capabilities to our customers supported by hardware, software, and machine learning models.”
- “In addition to regulatory changes, increasing demand for engineering talent in the artificial intelligence industry may cause disruption in the development of our advanced driver assistance technology and, coupled with disruptive new hardware technologies emerging year over year, may impact our long-term roadmap.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20221median 0
- Fiscal 20235median 1
- Fiscal 202416median 4
- Fiscal 202523median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 15,232 | 2026-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 14,861 | 2025-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 16,790 | 2024-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 14,122 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 10,422 | 2022-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The count includes the consolidated joint venture's employees, as the filing states it.
- No count by team: the split between manufacturing, direct sales and service, and software is by description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001874178-26-000008, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Rivian Automotive, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 31% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Rivian Automotive, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Rivian Automotive, Inc. employ?
- 15,232 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Rivian Automotive, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Motor Vehicle Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 33% desk work, 20% people work and 47% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Rivian Automotive, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 23 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 1, 5, 16 and 23 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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