Machine Learning Engineer, Maps & Navigation, Robotaxi

Tesla is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to develop and improve accurate maps for its navigation engine, used in customer vehicles and future Robotaxis. The role focuses on measuring map quality, building data-driven algorithms, and deploying improvements to production map-building systems.

Responsibilities

• Leverage Tesla’s unique data sources and your skills to measure map quality and surfaces issues across elements like lane graphs, connectivity, attributes, points of interest, etc
• Automate these workflows, improve their precision, and identify other process gaps, ultimately speeding up pace of map improvements
• Design, prototype, and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning and data-driven algorithms to efficiently up-level our map building process
• Use your insights to help prioritize improvements across the map building stack
• Overall, own and champion map quality – a critical part of our Robotaxi and Full Self Driving experience

Skills

• Strong fundamentals of geo-spatial and topological analytics
• Understanding of approaches to measure, improve, and validate map and lane graph quality
• Comfort working with large production scale datasets
• Strong proficiency in either Python, Go, C++ and libraries for geo-spatial, and graph analysis
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with software developers to execute on open-ended projects in small, fast-moving teams
• Ability to clearly communicate actionable analytics and insights to cross functional teams
• Degree in Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional ability
• Experience with GIS and map building/map quality problems at scale preferred
• Experience with using ML approaches to map problems is a plus

Benefits

• For full-time Tesla employees, eligible starting on day 1 of hire: medical plans with options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental plans, including orthodontic coverage, and vision plans, both with options with 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
• 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)

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