Data Engineer, Fleet Data, Self-Driving

Tesla is hiring a Data Engineer for its Self-Driving Fleet Data team to build reliable data pipelines and infrastructure for Full Self-Driving model evaluation and improvement. The role surfaces fleet driving scenarios, develops performance metrics, and delivers data tools and visualizations that support autonomy decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain data platforms that make it easy for teams across the org to discover, query, and explore fleet data
• 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, internal libraries, and agentic tools 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 SI (Super Intelligence) engineering partners on effectiveness of new datasets
• Deliver world class, interactive visualizations and tooling that turns complex data into actionable insights

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, proof of exceptional skills in related field, or equivalent experience
• Proficient in Python and SQL with experience building data models, performant queries, and ETLs at scale (e.g. PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Pyspark, Dagster)
• 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
• Passion for the future of transportation and AI technologies

Benefits

• Medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental plans (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both with options for a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company-paid 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 and 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: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft and 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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