Software Engineer - Maps & Navigation Validation, Vehicle Software

Job Description

Tesla rapidly ships software updates over the air to millions of vehicles on the road around the globe. As a member of the Maps and Navigation Validation team, you'll be responsible for ensuring that improvements and new features for our vehicles are thoroughly vetted, building confidence and assessing risks before signing off on each software release.

Join a team of top-notch Software Engineers and Test Engineers committed to continuously improving our vehicles' features and to holding the highest bar for the performance and reliability of our software systems. You will build automation & simulation tools and fleet telemetry pipelines to perform data-based assessments of the quality of our routes, turn-by-turn guidance, and map & traffic data across markets worldwide. You will collaborate across teams to ensure Tesla's navigation systems integrate seamlessly with our vehicles' maps UI, self-driving capabilities, and the supercharging network. The ideal candidate is a self-driven and hands-on problem solver, interested in utilizing a range of technologies and strategies to validate and ship features.

Job Responsibilities

• Become an expert on subsystems within the Maps and Navigation stack to perform validation reviews and risk assessments before releasing software to the fleet
• Write and ship software to the vehicle and build automated systems in the backend to generate and analyze fleet data from the millions of Tesla vehicles worldwide
• Define evaluation metrics, create visualizations and dashboards to support the monitoring and refinement of our navigation systems
• Implement and improve internal tools to accelerate experimentation and debugging of features
• Orchestrate and optimize tests, simulations, and analyses across distributed compute
• Work cross-functionally to investigate and fix issues that you identify

Job Requirements

• Strong proficiency with one of the following: Python, C/C++, Golang, or Java
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments and system administration
• Experience with CI/CD systems
• Experience with large scale data processing and querying
• Excellent critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills
• A passion for troubleshooting failures to determine root causes
• A passion for constantly improving code quality and system efficiency, testability, monitoring, & observability