What to Expect
Tesla is re-thinking how batteries are made from the ground up. We're designing new factories, new equipment, new processes, and new software to rapidly scale battery manufacturing, globally. The primary bottleneck to Tesla's future expansion (and the transition to sustainable transport and energy storage) is our ability to produce and procure batteries \u2013 that's why we're innovating in-house, with our collection of world-class engineers, to redefine the industry. Software, data, and automation all play a huge part in this strategy.
We've built software from scratch with a nimble and high performing team to meet the specific needs of Tesla's rapid battery manufacturing scale up. This software tracks every component of the cell manufacturing process and acts as the brain of the entire cell factory. It's key to ensuring batteries are made safely and for understanding how to improve processes. This platform is the conduit for data coming from the line, and it is part of the goal to have more data about manufacturing, end to end, than any other company.
The Cell Software team is responsible for building software solutions that allow the company to redefine manufacturing and production. We focus on implementing effective software advances, distributed fault-tolerant computing, and modern user- experience to manufacturing systems throughout Tesla. Our stack is built on top of Kubernetes, Kafka, React, Go, PostgreSQL and other related platforms. We are not stuck in legacy systems.
We're looking for an experienced, Sr. Staff level developer to own the architecture and lead development of large sections of our in-house Manufacturing Execution application, which interacts with PLCs and other equipment on the line (thousands of devices) to collect, analyze and direct manufacturing processes. You will work directly both with end customers of the software and with leadership to fully understand the problem space and design our next generation of systems to allow us to continue to grow to the massive scale at which Tesla plans to manufacture batteries. An ideal candidate has experience with high data throughput applications and growing architectures/designs at large scale.
What You'll Do
Own and deliver significant projects/code that impact the business and are recognizable outside of Cell Software each quarter. This could be a net-new system, a large-scale sub-system, or a large infrastructure upgrade
Architect correctly at the organization level. Could single-handedly design everything needed for Cell Software provided adequate time. Design mistakes are often completely irreversible and result in significant limitations to future software and business direction
Solve world-first computing problems at scale that allow us to do more with our huge set of data
Provide technical leadership and guidance to teams within Cell Software
Write code that is reliable, well tested and which directly impacts Tesla's bottom line
Interface with controls engineers, operators and other engineers to build the most effective automation systems and solutions. This includes getting immersed in defining and implementing automation system processes flows
Build tools, test-automation and documentation
Respond to and handle manufacturing process change requests promptly
What You'll Bring
10+ years of experience building backend systems
Demonstrated experience scaling systems to large data volumes and throughput
Expertise in algorithms, data structures, concurrency, distributed systems, and eventual consistency Can articulate the tradeoffs between alternatives and drives decision making around which technologies should be adopted in the future.
Proficiency in Go, Java, C, C++ C# or other backend language
Demonstrated experience building solid, testable, and maintainable clean code
Proficiency working in a high-impact, responsive, and collaborative team environment
Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional ability
Compensation and Benefits
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
Expected Compensation
$104,000 - $348,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits
Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
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Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Cell Software
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