Tesla Looking For Software Engineer – Material Flow Software at Palo Alto, CA Full Time

Tesla’s Material Flow Robotics Software team designs, builds, and deploys software that helps manage different types of mobile robots across, and between Tesla factories. These robots include managing AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles), Vertical Storage Systems, as well as TeslaBot usage on the factory floor.

We are looking for an engineer that will help build the server-side software stack for these products. Your contributions will automate end-to-end registration, movement, action management, job assignment, as well as the remote operation of corresponding mobile robots. The team builds a suite of apps that include: fleet management applications, mobile apps to control the mobile robots, and Video Teleops using WebRTC. These tools and applications will support thousands of mobile robots in real time and across our facilities, including our new Gigafactories in Austin, Berlin.

Responsibilities

Build a software stack that will control multiple types of mobile robots/vehicles, including Tesla commercial vehicles (M3/MY/Semi), Tesla custom built wheeled indoor robots, other multi degree of freedom robots, and third party mobile robots

Design, extend & review software architecture, and implement on systems through integration, test and real-time deployment

Make performance and optimization trade-offs to meet product requirements

Collaborate and communicate complex technical concepts through quality documentation

Work cross functionally with mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing engineering groups

Support the existing software stack and help troubleshoot issues that might occur

Requirements

Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages: Go (preferred), Python, Java, C#, C/C++

Basic experience with current dev-ops technologies: git, docker, Kubernetes

Basic database management systems experience: MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server

Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments

Solid understanding of software design/development principals

Ability to solve problems in adjacent disciplines outside of core focus areas

Nice to haves

Experience contributing to a large-scale distributed systems project

Employee Benefits

As a full time Tesla employee you will receive full benefits from day 1 for you and your dependents.

Kaiser and UnitedHealthcare PPO and HSA plans (including infertility coverage)

3 medical plan choices with $0 paycheck contribution

Vision & dental plans (including orthodontic coverage)

Company paid Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability

401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits

Employee Assistance Program, Paid Time Off, and Paid Holidays

Back-up childcare and employee discounts