Data Engineer, Field Reliability

Tesla is hiring a Data Engineer to improve how service and vehicle fleet repair data is organized, processed, and analyzed. The role builds scalable data pipelines and analysis tools that help vehicle engineers and analytics teams make data-driven decisions to improve vehicle quality and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable data pipeline architecture, while advancing the automation and standardization of our ETL processes
• Identify, design, and implement process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing queries, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including IT Business Intelligence team, to resolve data-related technical issues and support ETL infrastructure needs
• Develop data pipelines that enable analytics teams to build and refine KPI metric dashboards
• Build visualizations using tools like Tableau and Streamlit to communicate insights
• Build robust, flexible and automated software tools to complex fleet data analysis, enabling proactive monitoring of fleet behavior to improve field quality and customer experience

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or higher in quantitative discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Data Analytics & Engineering), or equivalent experience with evidence of exceptional ability
• 2+ years of work experience in data engineering related field
• Advanced SQL knowledge and hands-on experience working with relational databases, plus familiarity with various database engines
• Advanced knowledge of Python with Pandas
• Experience with quick web application development (e.g., Flask, Streamlit)
• Exposure to AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and LLMs for text mining/NLP tasks (via libraries like Hugging Face Transformers or LangChain)
• Working knowledge of big data tools (Spark/PySpark, Presto, Kafka)
• Experience with data visualization techniques (e.g., Tableau, Matplotlib)
• Experience developing predictive models on time-series data
• Strong collaboration skills, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with stakeholders
• Candidates with a GitHub profile or personal project portfolio in resume will be given priority in screening

Benefits

• As a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire
• Medical plans with 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
• 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
• Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)
• Cash and stock awards

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