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Data Engineer, Fleet Data, Self-Driving
| Job Category | Tesla AI | | Location | Palo Alto, California | | Req. ID | 245220 | | Job Type | Full-time |
What to Expect
The Self-Driving Fleet Data team is responsible for mining data from millions of Tesla cars to improve our neural networks and creating real-time analytics to measure Self-Driving performance. This is a very high-impact role that helps the team set overall goals and priorities, but also contributes directly to those goals by sourcing high volume and high-quality data. You will contribute to key data pipelines that provide metrics for projects such as the Full Self-Driving Vehicle Safety Report and find new ways to identify interesting scenarios from the fleet for training datasets and evaluation.
What You’ll Do
- Design and implement data pipelines from ingestion to visualization to unlock the full potential of Tesla’s fleet data by sourcing, transforming, and serving new datasets
- Define and build metrics that measure Self-Driving performance and specific driving events, then turn them into insights that drive decisions
- Monitor and maintain infrastructure health with robust alerting, logging, and automation for scale and reliability
- Build automation, developer tools, and internal libraries that accelerate analysis and visualization across the company
- Manage inflow rate of fleet data to ensure consumers have a high volume of diverse data
- Iterate with AI engineering partners on effectiveness of new datasets
- Deliver world class, interactive visualizations and tooling that turns complex data into actionable insights
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, proof of exceptional skills in related field, or equivalent experience
- Expert in Python and SQL with experience building data models, performant queries, and ETLs at scale
- Experience across the data lifecycle including sourcing, ingestion, transformation, analytics, and visualization
- Ability to own projects end-to-end from defining the right data to collect, building robust pipelines, to delivering actionable metrics and tooling
- Ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment with high ambiguity; self-starter mentality
Compensation and Benefits
Benefits
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Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
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Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
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Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
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Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
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Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
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Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
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401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
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Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
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Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
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Employee Assistance Program
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Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
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Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
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Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
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Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
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Tesla Babies program
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Commuter benefits
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Employee discounts and perks program
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Expected Compensation
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$140,000 - $300,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits
Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any factor, including veteran status and disability status, protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
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