Rivian‘s founder and CEO RJ Scaringe disclosed that the company’s headcount has grown to 17,000 employees — a figure that implies the EV maker added roughly 1,800 net positions in the first five months of 2026. The number marks a sharp reversal from nearly two years of workforce contractions that eliminated thousands of jobs, across five publicly disclosed rounds of layoffs between February 2024 and October 2025. Scaringe made the disclosure whi…
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