Sr. Software Engineer, Cell Software

What to Expect

Tesla is re‑thinking how batteries are made from the ground up. We are 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 – that’s why we are innovating in‑house with a 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 is key to ensuring batteries are made safely and for understanding how to improve processes. The platform is the conduit for data coming from the line, and it is part of our goal to have more end‑to‑end manufacturing data 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, Postgre

SQL 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 with end customers of the software and with leadership to fully understand the problem space and design our next‑generation 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.

• 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. You could single‑handedly design everything needed for Cell Software given 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 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 immersing in defining and implementing automation system process flows.
• Build tools, test‑automation and documentation.
• Respond to and handle manufacturing process change requests promptly.

• 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. Ability to articulate trade‑offs and drive decision‑making around technologies.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, C, C++, C# or other backend language.
• Demonstrated experience building solid, testable, maintainable clean code.
• Proficiency working in a high‑impact, responsive, and collaborative team environment.
• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience and evidence of exceptional ability.

Along with competitive pay, as a full‑time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans – plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family‑building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy…