628 systems engineer jobs found in Palo Alto

The Future is Autonomous. Join the Robotaxi division and drive the autonomous revolution, unlocking democratized, safe, low-cost transportation for all. Your role, positioned at the center of many critical teams at Tesla, will be critical to the successful deployment of Robotaxi. As a Systems Engineer focused on Robotaxi performance, you will evaluate robotaxi operational data and build out automated dashboards that can drive critical program decision making. Additionally you will develop ML models that unlock new that used to make critical operational and product decisions. Building out of analytical models to better understand field data as well as creating data reporting automation pipelines will be a core components of this role. This is marketplace economics at the scale of a global autonomous network. There is no driver to surge. The fleet is the product: energy, service, utilization, deadhead, and demand all collide in real time. You will forecast, optimize, and...

We're seeking a highly skilled and collaborative Senior distributed systems engineer to architect and implement a cutting-edge data platform while leading the development of streaming data pipelines, data lake, and OLAP infrastructure to support the growth of our energy data platform including Industrial, Residential, Supercharger, and Solar products. You'll design large-scale data systems that integrate multiple sources including deployed fleets, internal applications, and data warehouses while developing robust monitoring and alerting infrastructure. Your role involves building efficient batch and streaming applications that power business intelligence and support ML engineers with feature engineering infrastructure. You'll create analytics capabilities to track energy products throughout their lifecycle, from creation to deployment, usage, maintenance, and replacement. Working cross-functionally with teams across our energy divisions, you'll leverage your expertise in data...

Tesla Energy is building the power grid of the future. Join us as a Power Systems Engineer to extend our in-house transmission planning and bulk-system modeling capability for energy storage, solar, and charging infrastructure at mass scale across the Americas. You will own steady-state, contingency, dynamic, and production-cost studies using industry-standard tools, translate complex grid analyses into actionable project strategy, and serve as Tesla's technical voice in planning discussions with utilities and system operators. Most importantly, you will see your work enable the deployment of clean energy projects that reshape the grid. The Role Run transmission planning studies: N-0/N-1/N-1-1/N-2 contingency analysis, thermal/voltage screening, and transfer-capability assessments Perform production-cost and market simulation: hourly dispatch modeling, congestion/LMP analysis, and curtailment estimation for storage and hybrid projects Execute...

Join Tesla in building the power grid of the future with clean, sustainable energy. We're looking for a skilled Power Systems Engineer to help design, model, and integrate our battery storage solutions, accelerating the green-energy transformation. As a Power Systems Engineer, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our in-house Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (CHIL) testing capabilities for energy storage, solar, and electric charging systems at large scale. You will collaborate with utilities, independent power providers, system operators, and various engineers in technical power systems discussions, influencing control design to enable seamless grid scaling. The Role Design and validate controls to meet diverse utility requirements, integrating control elements and creating test plans to ensure grid stability and compliance with utility standards Conduct Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (CHIL) testing to validate control behavior against design specifications and...

Tesla's AI Integration team builds the infrastructure that powers the future of self-driving vehicles and humanoid robotics (Optimus). The AI Test Systems Engineer designs the systems that ensure Tesla's AI is safe, reliable, and continuously improving, not only in the real world, but at every step of development. This role develops scalable test platforms and automation systems that combine real-world fleet data, hardware-in-the-loop validation, and large-scale simulation to catch issues early, maximize coverage, and accelerate iteration. This is more than testing, it is building the feedback loop that drives AI evolution. Simulation is central to this mission. The engineer helps design and scale the systems that replay complex real-world scenarios with precision, reproduce rare edge cases, and validate end-to-end autonomy in virtual environments. These simulations are essential to how Tesla trains, debugs, and refines AI at scale. The role also builds backend services for...

Tesla is seeking an on-site Robotics Electrical Systems Engineer in Palo Alto, CA. This engineer will act as the subsystem expert during design, bring-up and ramp for multiple low voltage systems, power electronics, and subsequent sensing solution. This engineer is responsible for challenging existing designs and using a first principles' approach to innovating and accelerating novel architecture and design. The Role Define system and component level requirements through first principles analysis and hardware/model-based testing Prototype and characterize components and full systems to ensure target metrics are met Design and develop early system prototypes to de-risk new technologies Understand and highlight n-th order impacts of electrical, software, or process changes Triage and debug hardware and software interactions during design, launch, and deployment Be responsible for overall functional and performance readiness of a system and its features...

Tesla's Drive Systems Engineering team is looking for an outstanding Senior Mechanical Systems Engineer to own system architecture, modeling, and test across the Drive Unit portfolio. You will drive efficiency, lubrication performance, reliability across all vehicle programs. You will set how DSE measures, models, and improves drive unit lubrication, efficiency, and durability, and own the model-to-bench-to-fleet correlation that backs design decisions. You will identify system-level opportunities, drive architecture and component changes, and validate them on hardware. Scope spans motor, gearbox, lubrication, thermal, power electronics, and firmware. You will own the models that predict lubrication-driven drag and reliability, close them against dyno and component-level data, and mature the vehicle models for new and existing programs. This is a hands-on systems role. You will spend time in the lab and on the dyno, designing fixtures, instrumenting drive units, running tests,...

Tesla is looking for a highly motivated Systems Engineer to validate the fidelity of manufactured Optimus robots to design intent and modeling from a kinematics, dynamics, and sensing perspective. You will work across cross-functional teams to develop and execute validation methodologies that ensure accuracy, precision, and repeatability at high volume - directly driving design improvements and closing the loop between simulation and real hardware. If you have a strong foundation in mechanical systems, metrology, and robotics, and a track record of translating physical measurements into actionable design changes, join Tesla to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI robotics. The Role Work closely with Hardware, Software, and Simulation teams across the full product lifecycle - from initial concept and prototype builds through high-volume production to validate that manufactured robots conform to design intent and URDF specifications Validate robot link...

Tesla Energy is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy through a rapidly growing fleet of residential solar, battery energy storage systems (BESS), and charging systems deployed across hundreds of thousands of homes globally. Our distributed network generates terabytes of real-time telemetry data daily, creating an unparalleled opportunity to understand real-world hardware performance at scale. We are seeking a Systems Engineer to own the end-to-end product lifecycle for our residential energy storage and battery systems. You will be the technical bridge between fleet data, field failures, and engineering teams, diagnosing complex failure modes, leading root cause investigations, and driving corrective actions that improve performance for hundreds of thousands of customers. This is a high-impact, hands-on role with direct visibility to senior leadership. You'll work across the full stack: interpreting telemetry and debugging hardware in the field, writing Python...

As a Software Engineer for the Optimus team, you will build the tools and infrastructure to make and measure improvements to neural network architecture by building and automating scalable data and inference pipelines, ensuring data quality by building visualizing tools. We are building a Machine Learning Platform that automates the collection, processing, and evaluation of data, reducing manual overhead and accelerating the entire ML lifecycle. We are seeking an experienced engineer to build this automation platform that translates research breakthroughs into robotic intelligence at scale. The systems you create will drive continuous data integration, automated evaluation, and rapid deployment-impacting how thousands of Humanoid Robots perceive and act in the real world every day. The Role Automate data, inference, and auto-labeling pipelines Build the tooling and infrastructure for reporting and visualizing model metrics and performance Manage, analyze,...

Come join a small team of engineers building the platform that connects Tesla to its vehicles, Robotaxis, Optimus robots, and energy products. We own the backend behind every remote interaction with Tesla devices, from vehicle commands to real-time telemetry and over-the-air updates. Our systems deliver features like phone-as-key, cloud profiles, and vehicle sharing to millions of customers. Our platform is at the core of Tesla's Robotaxi service, powering the ride-hailing experience for customers and the fleet orchestration behind it. We also serve as the foundation that engineering, service, sales, delivery, and manufacturing teams across Tesla depend on to move fast. We're looking for a software engineer with distributed systems experience who wants to build at fleet scale. The Role Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and APIs for vehicle connectivity, device commands, telemetry, and firmware delivery Build and scale the systems powering...

We are developing cooling solutions for a general-purpose humanoid robot operating under continuous dynamic loads in unstructured environments. As a Robotics Thermal Design Engineer, you will own the full design and development lifecycle of in-house fan systems - from aerodynamic concepts through prototyping, validation, and production. You will work directly alongside an in-house motor design team to co-develop fan-motor assemblies that meet the robot's specific cooling requirements, spatial constraints, acoustic targets, and power budgets. This is a deeply hands-on role that sits at the intersection of turbomachinery, thermal-fluid systems, and electromechanical integration. The Role Own the end-to-end design of in-house fan systems, including blade geometry, housing, and ducting, to optimize performance, weight, and acoustics Translate system-level cooling targets into fan design specifications, working directly with the motor design team to create integrated...

Tesla is on a path to building humanoid robots at scale to automate repetitive and boring tasks. We are looking for firmware engineers to develop the embedded software that powers our Optimus platform, spanning Linux bring-up on application processors and real-time firmware on heterogeneous compute architectures. In this role, you will bring up new SoCs and carrier boards, integrate vendor board support packages and develop custom Linux kernel modules, write scalable drivers to interface with ASICs, bring up new communication protocols, and develop application-level modules to achieve specific functions across robotics subsystems. The robotics firmware team is agile, passionate, and fast-moving. Come join a team of deeply knowledgeable engineers that strive to build the most robust and reliable embedded systems using cutting-edge software development tools and practices. The Role Development of scalable real-time embedded and modern C++ application software that...

Do you want to work on Tesla's IoT platforms that support Powerwall, Megapack, Solar Roof, Supercharger, Autobidder, and Virtual Power Plants? Do you want to work with functional programming, streaming data, and distributed systems? Do you want to work with Rust, Scala, Akka, Reactive Streams, DuckDB, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes? Tesla is looking for Software Engineers to build the cloud services that power these products, driving the worldwide transition to sustainable energy. These platforms provide real-time monitoring, optimization, and control of distributed, renewable-energy assets, including generation, storage, grid services, and electric vehicle charging. You must enjoy thinking in systems and working on challenges related to the availability, reliability, scalability, and security of distributed software systems. The Role Design, develop, maintain, and operate distributed software systems that incorporate real-time and streaming data for the monitoring,...

Tesla vehicles get better through software long after they leave the factory. Turning that into a sustained advantage means thousands of engineers must be able to take new ideas through build, test, and packaging without the underlying systems becoming a bottleneck. When those shared systems slow down or grow unreliable, the entire organization loses momentum and the rate of real-world improvement drops. The Build Infrastructure team exists to keep that from happening by running a high-availability distributed compute platform across large clusters of machines. In this role you'll design and optimize the platform, schedulers, and frameworks that determine how efficiently every workload runs-directly shaping how quickly new capabilities reach the road and how rapidly the software behind autonomy can advance. The Role Work on building a distributed compute system, running code on hundreds of bare metal & cloud servers Make code more efficient to run, optimizing resources...

Tesla is pushing the boundaries of what a battery is capable of. We are looking for an engineer that will optimize both cell performance and lifetime. This role owns the cell testing and data analysis to support the battery management system which impacts the performance and reliability of all Tesla electric vehicles and energy products. In this role, you will manage the development and implementation of cell characterization tests needed to enable robust control strategies for cells of different chemistries. You will collaborate closely with the firmware and controls teams to set the limits for cell usage. You will identify and develop new cell testing schedules and techniques required to validate performance and lifetime across different cell chemistries and use cases. The Role Develop new cell test protocols to enable next-generation cell control strategies in products Analyze test results to provide the cell limits that optimize performance and reliability Own...

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 Energy is bringing battery, solar, and charging technologies to the grid, establishing new industries and defining the future of renewable energy ecosystems. This team is at the forefront of enabling this vision by ensuring critical safety systems of highly energy-dense products work as intended. As a mechanical design engineer, safety systems, you will drive the design of battery energy systems to ensure and maintain Tesla's robust safety record. You will own the design of safety-critical hardware from design conception to mass production. Additionally, you will be assigned as the responsible safety engineer of a program, take charge of the validation process, and build the case for robust product safety. In doing so, you will be engaging in safety-critical scenarios across electrical, thermal, mechanical, and even power electronics disciplines. The role is collaborative and cross-functional, requiring extensive interfacing with teams including systems engineering,...

The Drive Systems Engineering team is seeking an exceptional Thermal System Engineer to design and advance the thermal system at the heart of our electric drive units. In this role, you will own the full lifecycle - from physics-based model development through empirical validation. You will push the boundaries of what is physically achievable, validating every assumption against real-world data and driving relentless improvement from first prototype to millions of units on the road. This role demands more than technical depth. You'll operate at the forefront of electrified powertrain development, tackling problems that don't have textbook answers, alongside engineers who are among the best in the world at what they do. You will work side by side with design, hardware, manufacturing, and test engineers in a flat, highly collaborative organization where technical contribution is expected at every level. Projects are often open-ended, and the ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity,...