Reinforcement Learning Engineer, Self-Driving, Tesla SI

Tesla is hiring a Reinforcement Learning Engineer to build foundation models and an end-to-end learning-based self-driving system. The role focuses on improving driving-model planning and reasoning, enhancing training data, and integrating safety-critical software with vehicle firmware for deployment across Tesla’s fleet.

Responsibilities

• Leverage millions of miles of driving data and interventions to build a robust and scalable end-to-end learning based self-driving system
• Use cutting-edge techniques from generative modeling, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning to improve the planning and reasoning capabilities of our driving models
• Experiment with data generation and fleet data collection approaches to enhance the diversity and quality of training data
• Integrate directly with vehicle firmware and ship production quality, safety-critical software to the entirety of Tesla's vehicle fleet

Skills

• Strong experience with Python, any major deep learning framework, and software engineering best practices
• An "under the hood" knowledge of deep learning modern architectures, optimization, model alignment, etc
• Proven expertise in deploying production ML models for self-driving, robotics, or natural language processing at scale
• Comfort with C++ to help integrate with vehicle firmware and take projects from ideas to shipped products

Benefits

• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Medical plans, with plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both with options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Company Paid Health Savings Accounts (HSA) Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Employee Assistance Program
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Voluntary benefits including critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Tesla Babies program
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Commuter benefits
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: Employee discounts and perks program
• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: 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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