# 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,

- **Id**: 4217775
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/tesla-reinforcement-learning-engineer-self-driving-tesla-si>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **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**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:49:46Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:49:46Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4078
- **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**: 216000
- **Max**: 528000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 528000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Imitation Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T03:20:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T09:11:41Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 528000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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