Electric-truck startup Rivian Automotive has hired a former Tesla executive to lead its engineering as the Amazon-backed company’s debut electric vehicles near production, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Nick Kalayjian, who spent more than a decade at Tesla, will join Rivian as executive vice-president of engineering and product, said the person, who declined to be named.

Most recently he was a senior vice-president at San Francisco-based Plenty Inc., according to his LinkedIn profile.

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