Data Engineer, Fleet Health

What To Expect
Data is deeply embedded in the product and engineering culture at Tesla. We rely on data – lots of it – to improve autopilot, to optimize hardware designs, to proactively detect faults, and to optimize load on the electrical grid. We collect data from each of our cars, robots, Superchargers, and energy storage devices to make these products better and our customers safer.

We’re the Fleet Analytics team, a central team that helps many teams leverage the data we collect. We provide direct support for critical projects by modeling behaviors and building insights from the data we collect, as well as building self-service applications and tools to empower Engineers in other domains with data. To do so, we leverage our internal data platform built on top of AWS, S3, Spark, Trino using open source data science tools such as Jupyter notebooks, Pandas, Bokeh, Panel, Superset, and Airflow. Our work has a direct impact on Tesla’s products, and enables the work of hundreds of Engineers across disciplines throughout the company.

We’re looking for a talented Engineer to identify, compute, predict, and communicate core metrics about our vehicle products, and to drive cross-functional efforts to improve these metrics. This will require a cross-functional skillset that can readily understand our product’s electrical architecture to help identify relevant metrics and how to calculate them, along with sufficient software fundamentals to build reliable data pipelines applications to monitor these metrics. These applications will be leveraged by both executives and engineers to ensure our vehicles continue to perform to Tesla’s exacting standards. You will be responsible for bringing these applications from concept to production in collaboration with component design teams and other members of Fleet Analytics, as well as providing ongoing maintenance and community support.

What You’ll Do

Build applications and data pipelines that optimize the efficiency and accuracy of analysis over petabytes of data

Design and implement metrics, applications and tools that will enable engineers by allowing them to self-serve their data insights

Write clean and tested code that can be maintained and extended by other Software Engineers

Provide guidance to Tesla’s Data Engineering and Data Science community regarding best practices

Keep up to date on relevant technologies and frameworks, and propose new ones that the team could leverage

Identify trends, invent new ways of looking at data, and get creative in order to drive improvements in both existing and future products

Give talks, contribute to open source projects, and advance data science on a global scale

What You’ll Bring

Proficiency in Python, SQL, and/or Scala

Able to understand electrical systems

Experience writing software in a professional environment

Experience with infrastructure tools – e.g., Linux, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes

Able to approach complex problems from a first principles perspective

Smart but humble, with a bias for action

Benefits
Compensation and 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)

LGBTQ+ care concierge services

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 – $258,000/annual salary, depending on level + 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.

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