# 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

- **Id**: 3796172
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/tesla-machine-learning-engineer-maps-navigation-robotaxi>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Palo Alto, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T08:50:36Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T18:20:45Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-05T18:20:45Z
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3499
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Energy Storage, Autonomous Driving, Solar Energy, Humanoid Robots

## Company

- **Id**: 23
- **Name**: Tesla
- **Domain**: tesla.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/tesla>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 140000
- **Max**: 360000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 360000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T09:20:50Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-05T18:20:45Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 360000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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