Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, AI

Tesla Motors, Inc.
132,000 - 300,000 USD
paid holidays, flex time, 401(k)
United States, California, Palo Alto
Dec 10, 2025
What to Expect The Core Infrastructure team empowers our Autonomy organization in accelerating the iteration, validation, and release of Robotaxi & Optimus features. This includes orchestrating millions of jobs across distributed compute clusters, managing thousands of Tesla AI computers, designing & maintaining CI/CD pipelines for deployment and release, enabling "developer" sessions for our custom FSD hardware, and advancing software development through AI Agentic workflows. The team also focuses on building resilient backend systems with high-availability, high-throughput and low end-to-end latency. What You'll Do Design & bring up AI Agentic workflows that spans across all stages of development from triaging issues to shipping features Design & implement backend infrastructure to handle iteration and batch processing of inference, simulation, and evaluation workloads based on real-world sensor data Influence architectural decisions with focus on security, scalability, reliability and high performance Setup & maintain monitoring, metrics and reporting systems for fine-grained observability/actionable alerting Work closely with the other Autopilot teams to design & implement backend components required for future features/processes What You'll Bring Proficiency with Python and/or Golang Experience with Linux especially in networking, virtualization and filesystems Experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and deployment tools like Ansible or similar Experience with concurrency programming Experience with data stores like PostgreSQL and Redis Familiaritywith PyTorch is a plus 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) 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 Expected Compensation $132,000 - $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.