421 software developer jobs found in Palo Alto, CA

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to support our group by ensuring the success of key analytical dashboards and software applications leveraged by Tesla Global Supply Chain teams. You will be part of a team that is managing strategic initiatives and continuous improvement efforts across all of Tesla's Global Supply Chain Teams. You will be responsible for building and maintaining full stack applications that support various use cases such as Supply Chain Management. Our UIs are built with React and are powered by PHP in the backend. We collaborate closely with our stakeholders, focus on extensible design systems, and obsess over open-source quality solutions to create scalable applications. We move quickly and aspire to always delight our users with wonderful interactions. The Role Contribute to the complete software development lifecycle for Supply Chain UI applications, ensuring that all projects are delivered on time and meet...

The Electronic Systems organization is looking for a highly motivated software developer with a strong AI integration background excited by the opportunity to build and scale this system. The opportunities are wide open, leveraging the data our system supports to introduce new workflows and features. A strong candidate will be one able to consider a highly connected data model with many different user groups and find creative solutions to augment and visualize data while maintaining structure. You will be part of a highly focused group developing AI assisted design tools to maximize speed and efficiency in the heart of the Tesla engineering design process. These tools are key from beginning to end of the design cycle and are being used across Design Engineering, Service Engineering, Program Management and Manufacturing globally. The Electronic Systems organization is responsible for developing the core nervous system for our products from high level architecture and vehicle...

Tesla is looking for a highly motivated individual to join the Vehicle Software organization's Systems Validation Team with a focus on high voltage systems including battery management, AC and DC charging, and HV power conversion. It is the responsibility of this team to validate all software driven, system level, vehicle requirements prior to any new hardware or software release or new product introduction. As a Systems Validation Engineer, you are expected to be an expert in your domain, have a deep understanding of the software/hardware dependencies in your system, and ensure our products achieve Tesla's high standards for safety and customer experience prior to release. Tesla is continuously making improvements to its existing product line, as well as launching new products at a breakneck pace. As a Validation Engineer you must maintain a close relationship with all members of the design cycle to guarantee you are prepared to rigorously and comprehensively test all new...

Tesla is looking for a highly motivated individual to join the Vehicle Software organization's Systems Validation Team with a focus on high voltage systems including battery management, AC and DC charging, and HV power conversion. It is the responsibility of this team to validate all software driven, system level, vehicle requirements prior to any new hardware or software release or new product introduction. As a Systems Validation Engineer, you are expected to be an expert in your domain, have a deep understanding of the software/hardware dependencies in your system, and ensure our products achieve Tesla's high standards for safety and customer experience prior to release. Tesla is continuously making improvements to its existing product line, as well as launching new products at a breakneck pace. As a Validation Engineer you must maintain a close relationship with all members of the design cycle to guarantee you are prepared to rigorously and comprehensively test all new...

Tesla is at the forefront of developing humanoid robots, known as Optimus, on a large scale to revolutionize automation in manufacturing and material handling. We leverage advanced AI for highly adaptable and autonomous operation. As part of our Optimus Hardware Validation team, we're seeking an exceptional test and validation engineer to design and implement comprehensive tests at sub-system and system levels for actuator validation. You'll develop innovative methodologies to ensure the reliability, performance, and safety of our cutting-edge actuators. This highly cross-functional role involves collaborating with design engineers, software developers, and firmware engineers to create efficient testing that delivers optimal results in minimal time. You will take direction from a senior engineer, while assuming full responsibility over the tests you design and run, providing summaries directly to teams. The ideal candidate solid background in mechatronic and/or electric...

Tesla is at the forefront of developing humanoid robots, known as Optimus, on a large scale to revolutionize automation in manufacturing and material handling. We leverage advanced AI for highly adaptable and autonomous operation. As part of our Optimus Hardware Validation team, we're seeking an exceptional test and validation engineer to design and implement comprehensive tests at sub-system and system levels for actuator validation. You'll develop innovative methodologies to ensure the reliability, performance, and safety of our cutting-edge actuators. This highly cross-functional role involves collaborating with design engineers, software developers, and firmware engineers to create efficient testing that delivers optimal results in minimal time. You will take direction from a senior engineer, while assuming full responsibility over the tests you design and run, providing summaries directly to teams. The ideal candidate solid background in mechatronic and/or electric...

Tesla is at the forefront of developing humanoid robots, known as Optimus, on a large scale to revolutionize automation in manufacturing and material handling. We leverage advanced AI for highly adaptable and autonomous operation. As part of our Optimus Hardware Validation team, we're seeking an exceptional System Engineer to design and implement comprehensive tests at sub-system and system levels for hand validation. You'll develop innovative methodologies to ensure the reliability, performance, and safety of our cutting-edge robotic hand. This highly cross-functional role involves collaborating with design engineers, software developers, and controls experts to create efficient testing that delivers optimal results in minimal time. You will take direction from a senior engineer, while assuming full responsibility over the tests you design and run, providing summaries directly to teams. The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in mechanical engineering with proven...

Tesla is at the forefront of developing humanoid robots on a large scale to revolutionize automation in manufacturing and material handling. As part of our dedicated Optimus Test team, we are seeking an exceptional Mechatronics Engineer to play a pivotal role in the testing and validation of the Optimus. You will be instrumental in ensuring the success of the Optimus throughout its entire product lifecycle. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in robotic system test and integration, including hands-on experience with coding and control. A comprehensive understanding of the interdependencies between software and hardware is essential, as is the ability to effectively manage software and hardware integration for testing purposes. This role will provide exposure to various systems of the Optimus, including controls, actuators, and structures, requiring understanding of low voltage and mechanical systems basics. This position offers a high level of engagement,...

Tesla is at the forefront of developing humanoid robots, known as Optimus, on a large scale to revolutionize automation in manufacturing and material handling. We leverage advanced AI for highly adaptable and autonomous operation. As part of our Optimus Hardware Validation team, we're seeking an exceptional test and validation engineer to design and implement comprehensive tests at sub-system and system levels for actuator validation. You'll develop innovative methodologies to ensure the reliability, performance, and safety of our cutting-edge actuators. This highly cross-functional role involves collaborating with design engineers, software developers, and firmware engineers to create efficient testing that delivers optimal results in minimal time. You will take direction from a senior engineer, while assuming full responsibility over the tests you design and run, providing summaries directly to teams. The ideal candidate solid background in mechatronic and/or electric...

As a member of the Vehicle Controls and Navigation Algorithms team, you will work on developing accurate maps of the world's road network, used to power Tesla's navigation engine which is leveraged by all existing customer cars and future Robotaxis. You will experiment with new algorithmic approaches to build maps, improve their quality, and implement these changes in production systems. Ultimately, you will positively impact customer experience by championing improvements across our map building stack in a data-driven, first-principled way that leverages all the data collected from our fleet of millions of vehicles across the world. This role is highly impactful, critical to the experience of millions of Tesla customers on the road today, and future autonomous Robotaxi fleets. The Role Leverage Tesla's unique data sources and your skills to measure map quality and surfaces issues across elements like lane graphs, connectivity, attributes, points of interest, etc....

Tesla is at the forefront of developing humanoid robots on a large scale to revolutionize automation in manufacturing and material handling. As part of our dedicated Optimus Test team, we are seeking an exceptional Mechatronics Engineer to play a pivotal role in the testing and validation of the Optimus. You will be instrumental in ensuring the success of the Optimus throughout its entire product lifecycle. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in robotic system test and integration, including hands-on experience with coding and control. A comprehensive understanding of the interdependencies between software and hardware is essential, as is the ability to effectively manage software and hardware integration for testing purposes. This role will provide exposure to various systems of the Optimus, including controls, actuators, and structures, requiring understanding of low voltage and mechanical systems basics. This position offers a high level of engagement,...

The Tesla AI Hardware team is at the forefront of revolutionizing artificial intelligence through cutting-edge hardware innovation. Comprising brilliant engineers and visionaries, the team designs and develops advanced AI inference chips tailored to accelerate Tesla's machine learning capabilities. A key part of this effort is Dojo, Tesla's custom supercomputer system built to efficiently train massive neural networks on vast video data from the fleet. The work of Tesla's AI Hardware team powers the neural networks behind Full Self-Driving (FSD), and Tesla humanoid robot, Optimus, pushing the boundaries of computational efficiency and performance. By creating custom silicon and optimized architectures, the team ensures Tesla remains a leader in AI-driven automotive and energy solutions, shaping a future where intelligent machines enhance human life. As a key member of the Tesla AI hardware team, the AI/ML Compute Architect will drive the innovation and optimization of computing...

The AI Platform Integration team is seeking a Functional Safety Engineer to design and develop cutting-edge safety-critical systems for seamless integration of AI-driven technologies into AI platforms. We are looking for experienced candidates passionate about ensuring safety and reliability in innovative AI applications. The AI Platform Integration team focuses on embedding AI solutions into safety-critical vehicle functions, such as autonomous driving, predictive control systems, and real-time decision-making. You will help design and build software and integration frameworks that meet stringent safety and reliability standards. Your role will involve determining optimal system design paradigms, communication protocols, and monitoring strategies while collaborating with a team of functional safety engineers, software developers and hardware engineers to establish robust processes, tools, and frameworks that set or exceed industry benchmarks. This is a high-visibility role...

The Tesla AI Hardware Supply Chain team is seeking a Program Manager to support our next generation of AI-focused platforms, with a primary emphasis on hardware for autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots, and AI servers. In this role, you will function as a key liaison between the Supply Chain organization and internal stakeholders, including Tesla's Executive Team, Engineering, Sales, and Manufacturing. This position places significant weight on AI hardware integration, where you will collaborate closely with software developers to develop supply chain program automation tools. These tools will optimize sourcing strategies, new program introduction launch schedules and readiness, cost-saving opportunities, and the full project lifecycle-from design concept and validation, to launch and mass production, through to excess, obsolescence, and service support. Program Managers will work hand-in-hand with Supply Chain Managers and Supplier Industrialization Engineers across all relevant...

Consider before submitting an application This position is expected to start May 2027 and continue through summer term (ending approximately August 2027 or later, if available). We ask for a minimum of 12 weeks, full-time (40 hours/week) and on-site, for most internships. This internship role is for graduating high school students who are expecting to begin higher education in Fall 2027. International Students: If your work authorization is through CPT, please consult your school on your ability to work 40 hours per week before applying. You must be able to work 40 hours per week on-site. Many students will be limited to part-time during the academic year. Internship Program at Tesla The Internship Recruiting Team is driven by the passion to recognize and develop emerging talent. Our year-round program places the best students in positions where they will grow technically, professionally, and personally through their experience working closely with their Manager, Mentor,...

Opticaster's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy by optimizing how batteries are charged and discharged to maximize value for customers and the grid. Our advanced algorithms determine the best times to store and use energy, considering electricity prices, solar generation, and grid conditions. These optimizations power Tesla's energy products, including Megapacks, Powerwalls, Virtual Power Plants, and microgrids. With a global fleet of over 500,000 residential systems, our software operates at scale, requiring robust and efficient solutions. Opticaster also plays a key role in supporting grid stability through programs like demand response and by integrating with Autobidder to actively participate in energy markets. Opticaster is a customer-facing product: the software you build directly shapes how hundreds of thousands of homes and energy sites store, use, and export energy every day. As a Software Engineer on Opticaster, you will build the...

The Silicon Development team is seeking a Firmware Engineer to drive the development of our custom Autopilot Full Self Driving (FSD) SoC. You will join a team of deeply knowledgeable embedded engineers solving ambitious challenges at the intersection of hardware and software. In this role, you will own the full firmware stack - from the very first instruction in ROM and early bootloaders to complex Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) applications. You will engage in tight hardware and software co-design, working intimately with hardware architects to ensure our custom SoCs are functional, performant, and reliable. This is an opportunity to write code that breathes life into new silicon before it even exists physically. The Role Write high-performance, safety-critical C code for RTOS and real-time environments Develop and debug firmware in pre-silicon environments (FPGA, emulation) to validate architecture and accelerate hardware bring-up Lead low-level debug efforts...

Digital Optimus is the software counterpart to our physical humanoid, designed to interact with computer interfaces and perform long-horizon agentic behaviors. Our approach is modeled after real-time control policies rather than screenshot-based VLM agents, with the larger goal of integrating with Tesla's broader AI ecosystem. We're seeking an ML/RL Infra Engineer to build scalable, reliable infrastructure that powers these agents and enables seamless, high-volume rollouts for model evaluation & RL training. Top candidates will have deep experience in large-scale ML systems, high-performance training, and edge deployment, though evidence of exceptional ability matters more than relevance alone. The Role Design & implement scalable distributed training infrastructure for large agentic models, supporting imitation learning, reinforcement learning (online & offline), and long-horizon training workflows Build high-fidelity, ultra-realistic training & simulation environments...

The Tesla Energy Residential Device Software team is looking for a Software Engineer to build control and configuration software for residential energy products such as Powerwall, Solar Inverter, or Wall Connector. These products resemble other, more familiar IoT products in many ways: They need to be installed, configured, and diagnosed. Once operational, they need to run autonomously, respond to commands, and provide customers with useful telemetry. All of this requires control and configuration tools that are reliable and resilient, which is where you come in. With your help, we can make installing more renewable energy technology easier, faster, and cheaper.Our software stack is as diverse as our products. It includes embedded and Linux-based systems, web and native apps, cloud services and local IoT protocols. Pragmatism, willingness to dive into new codebases, eagerness to work with stakeholders, and engineering leadership are key strengths we expect you to bring to the...

Tesla AI's Agentic Tooling team builds the harness and skill ecosystem for the AI org powering FSD and Optimus. Our agents already do real engineering work day-to-day for engineers across the org. We own the customized harness end-to-end: the orchestration around model backends, the tool ecosystem agents call into, the session and memory layer, the observability stack, and the evaluation system that gates every prompt, skill, and model upgrade. You'll work across the full surface of the team, extending the harness, shipping new skills, building evaluations, owning observability, and picking up whatever is most leveraged each quarter. Models and skills evolve weekly, so a fast iteration loop and honest measurement of what you ship are non-negotiable. The Role Harness development: Extend the agent runtime and tool ecosystem end-to-end. Add new tools, integrations, and backends without regressing existing skills, and keep the platform easy to extend as the ecosystem evolves...