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Sr. Data Engineer, Energy, AI,ML

Tesla Motors, Inc.
80,000 - 186,000 USD
paid holidays, flex time, 401(k)
United States, California, Palo Alto
Sep 09, 2025
What to Expect We are seeking a highly motivated and collaborative engineer to join our team to drive the development of agentic AI to support the growth of our energy business, including Industrial, Residential, Supercharger, Solar and other internal business verticals. As a key member of the team, you will design, develop and iterate on agentic solutions that solve for key internal workstreams built onto of data from various data sources, including deployed fleets, internal applications, and other data warehouses. Your work will accelerate how we gather insights, contribute to our understanding of key business performance indicators, informing data-driven decisions to optimize our strategies and drive business growth. You will be responsible for leading the development of agentic efforts to identify and resolve fleet-wide performance, operation, and maintenance challenges across our growing fleet of energy products. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Industrial Energy, Residential Energy, and Solar Product and Service Engineering, to maximize product health of our fleet. What You'll Do Develop and implement AI based products using LLMs to create next generation automation tools that can be leveraged by both internal and external teams Develop and test quick porotypes to validate concepts, create beta launches, collect feedback and iterate on optimal solutions before scaling up Proactively identify and drive optimization and improvements to the product and fine tune backend APIs to scale to product demands Drive adoption of large language model solutions, machine learning algorithms for optimizing how we make sense of telemetry and internal fleet data Research and incorporate emerging language model updates, infrastructures, tools, and technologies, especially pertaining to agentic AI Help shape the product roadmap, scaling strategy in partnership with engineering and forward deployed resources What You'll Bring Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or equivalent experience Have built or deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models and understand how model behavior affects product experience Build robust, scalable, and reliable infrastructure to support the deployment and operation of AI agents at scale Experience building or scaling AI-powered platforms and agent-based systems Deep knowledge of transformer-based LLMs, tokenization, embeddings, context management, and prompt engineering Familiarity with LangChain for building LLM-powered applications, including experience with chains, agents, and integrations with vector stores or external tools Proven ability to evaluate, fine-tune, and optimize LLMs for downstream tasks Demonstrable ability to solve complex engineering problems that deliver on results Compensation and Benefits Benefits Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire: Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna 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, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance Employee Assistance Program Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays Back-up childcare and parenting support resources Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs Tesla Babies program Commuter benefits Employee discounts and perks program Expected Compensation $80,000 - $186,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.