The Role

Tesla's Design Technology team ships Tesla's company-wide platform for design. For example, we assure that ever-evolving engineering designs, like the trees of components and processes needed to build a Model X, are continuously communicated across the company as they evolve in time. Our work also supports the design of equipment, processes and factories to make Tesla products. We write bespoke software, and we greatly customize commercial design tooling like CAD programs and visualizers. A core problem we face is managing mechanical designs like software, complete with versions, branches and merge conflicts. Joining our team means directly impacting Tesla's ability to communicate critical design data as the company scales to ship millions of products a year from factories around the world. The Design Technology team seeks engineers with a willingness to work across the stack. Core custom software is written in Go, typically to run as GRPC and/or REST services on k8s clusters. We extend CAD tooling using their native languages. We use Kafka, SQL, and manage CI/CD with gitops. We are owners of and advocates for best practices including code reviews, design authoring and review, testing at the unit and end-to-end levels, and iterative releases.

Responsibilities

• Help clarify and prioritize requirements with stakeholders.
• Author, review and approve of full stack designs, suggest alternatives.
• Code reviews with guidance on best practices, unit test techniques, patterns etc.
• Contribute to knowledge base - docs, scripts, etc.
• Establish and extend best practice for software engineering.
• Full stack coding with unit tests (primarily Go, but dabble in js, dart, java, c#, cpp).

Requirements

• Five years professional software development, with 3 covering all aspects of delivery - coding, code and API design, testing, docs, provisioning, launch, versioning, etc.
• Preferred 1 year in technical leadership role.
• Contributions of any kind perusable on github, stackoverflow, etc.

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:

• Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• LGBTQ+ care concierge services
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program