Software Engineer, AI Model Delivery

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Software Engineer, AI Model Delivery

| Job Category | Tesla AI | | Location | Palo Alto, California | | Req. ID | 276691 | | Job Type | Full-time |

What to Expect

The AI Deployments team builds systems that enable extremely fast model iteration and dynamic deployment to end-user hardware across Vehicle, Robotaxi, Optimus, and Digital Optimus.

Our infrastructure is already the fastest way to evaluate Tesla's AI in the real world, and the mission is to make this final step even faster, more robust, and as seamless as possible.

Beyond speed, our systems are core to 24/7 Optimus model evaluation, reinforcement learning flows, weights installation on Tesla products around the world, driving vehicles autonomously off factory lines, and seamless deployment across countries.

The team lives at the intersection of cloud services, build systems, on-device tasks, OTA infrastructure, AI model runtime, networking stack, and security. This will set the new standard for deployments at Tesla, directly accelerating FSD and Optimus programs.

The work will define how models ship to millions of Tesla vehicles and robots worldwide.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build high-impact systems, cloud, delivery, device,that together tighten the feedback loop between model training and real-world evaluation on target hardware
• Select and implement technologies that optimize performance, cost, and robustness across deployment environments worldwide: from factories to outdoor sites to training clusters
• Collaborate with Firmware and Security teams to develop faster, more granular builds, enabling targeted updates, dynamic regional configurations, and rapid iteration without full reflash cycles
• Build the metrics pipeline, dashboards, and alerts for complete visibility from device to cloud

What You’ll Bring

• Versatile builder with strong product instincts. Comfortable across many subsystems, cloud, build, device, inference runtime, networking, scope broad asks, solve them optimally in the fast internal loop, then leverage that win in prod across the fleet and around the world
• Hands-on experience in application-layer development using Python, Go, and/or C++
• Solid foundation in concurrent programming, Linux systems, networking
• Bonus if familiar with connectivity hardware, modern build systems (bazel, scons), data center infrastructure, distributed infrastructure

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:

• Medical plans > 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 Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA

• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

• 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 (90 day waiting period)

• Employee Assistance Program

• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly 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

• Expected Compensation

• $140,000 - $390,000/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.

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