Telemetry Engineer, Optimus

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Telemetry Engineer, Optimus

| Job Category | Engineering & Information Technology | | Location | Palo Alto, California | | Req. ID | 272822 | | Job Type | Full-time |

What to Expect

As a Telemetry Engineer on the Optimus team, you will be responsible for monitoring and reporting on fleet-wide performance metrics, uptime, and serviceability across our humanoid robot platform. You'll develop and integrate processes, tools, and automation pipelines to monitor and ensure optimal performance of robots in the field — turning raw telemetry into actionable engineering decisions.

This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, reliability engineering, and robotics. You'll lead technical discussions on fleet health and analytics, collaborating with hardware, firmware, manufacturing, and service teams to drive measurable improvements in uptime and reliability. An ideal candidate combines strong data fundamentals (SQL, Python, large-scale analytics) with a self-starter mentality and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving, high-ambiguity environment.

What You’ll Do

• Perform detailed reviews of fleet performance, identifying common failure modes, sources of downtime, and reliability trends across the robot fleet

• Develop and execute cross-team strategies to resolve recurring issues and improve fleet reliability, serviceability, and uptime

• Use SQL and Python to extract, organize, and analyze telemetry from a variety of sources, surfacing actionable insights on fleet performance and failure trends

• Build and maintain reporting systems — dashboards, automated reports, and executive-ready presentations — that communicate robot performance and operational trends clearly

• Partner with engineering and operations teams to design tools and pipelines that scale fleet analytics as the robot population grows

• Correlate field telemetry with manufacturing test data, HIL testing results, and firmware releases to identify root causes and validate fixes

• Participate in an on-call rotation to triage critical fleet incidents as needed

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or equivalent demonstrated skills

• 2+ years of experience in data engineering, telemetry, reliability, or fleet analytics (or equivalent)

• Strong proficiency in Python (Pandas, NumPy) and SQL (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, or similar)

• Experience working with large-scale datasets and building reproducible analysis pipelines

• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to translate complex findings into executive-ready summaries

• Self-starter mentality with a proven track record of identifying problems and driving them to resolution in ambiguous environments

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

• $120,000 - $252,000/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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