Sr. Software Engineer, Data Platform, Factory Software - Fremont [276785]

$168,000 - $252,000 yearly

Job Description

Tesla's Factory Software team builds the systems that keep our factories running — and the data layer underneath all of it is what makes real-time decisions, AI automation, and operational intelligence possible. As we scale software across every gigafactory worldwide, we need a data platform that can keep up: high-throughput ingestion, sub-second analytics, and a foundation that AI agents can actually reason over.

That's where you come in. You'll own ClickHouse as a core platform — not as a DBA maintaining a box, but as an engineer building the storage backbone that powers every application, pipeline, and AI agent in our factory software ecosystem. You'll define how data flows in, how it's modeled, how it's queried at scale, and how AI agents consume it to drive autonomous decisions on the factory floor.

This isn't an IT support role. It's a platform engineering role with direct impact on production output across Tesla's global manufacturing operations.

The Role

  • Own the design, deployment, and operation of ClickHouse clusters across factory software applications — schema design, table engine selection, partitioning, replication, and retention strategies
  • Build and maintain high-throughput data ingestion pipelines from factory systems, IoT devices, Kafka streams, and operational databases into ClickHouse
  • Define data modeling standards and query patterns that enable consistent, performant access across engineering teams — establish ClickHouse as the source of truth for analytical and operational workloads
  • Design and expose data access layers (APIs, SDKs, materialized views) that AI agents and LLM-based workflows can reliably query and act on
  • Collaborate with application engineers to migrate existing workloads to ClickHouse where appropriate, and advise on storage architecture decisions across MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB
Anthony Antonucci

Qualifications

Relevant experience in Engineering & Information Technology; strong problem-solving skills; commitment to Tesla mission.

Immediate Fill

No