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Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Machine Learning Engineer - Realtime Games, Digital Optimus

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Full-timePalo Alto, CA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong technical understanding of all stages of model development, from pre-training to inference.
  • Demonstrated contributions to at least one large multimodal training run.
  • Experience with planning and/or memory architectures for long-horizon or agentic systems.
  • Track record of delivering research from ideation to publication or production.
  • Hands-on experience with vision-language models (VLMs), vision-language-action models (VLAs), reinforcement learning (RL), and large-scale transformers.

Responsibilities

  • Design and own experiments to improve long-horizon agentic gameplay, focusing on memory and real-time control.
  • Lead or make core contributions to large-scale training runs, including data mixture, scaling, infrastructure, and algorithms.
  • Improve the post-training stack, including scalable environments, rewards, and behavior evaluations.
  • Design architectures with efficient context management, real-time reactivity, and intelligent planning that can independently complete tasks over many days.
  • Develop rigorous benchmarks and techniques to evaluate agent performance in games and measure transfer across different games, embodiments, and general computer use.
  • Collaborate across research, infrastructure, and production teams to integrate agent systems into Full Self-Driving (FSD) and physical Optimus.
  • Iterate rapidly on prototypes, debug complex multimodal machine learning stacks, and contribute to new research directions.

About the Company

Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Tesla makes electric cars and batteries that store power for homes and utilities, and it develops self-driving software and humanoid robots. In 2023, its Model Y became the first electric vehicle to rank as the world's best-selling car. Buyers order the Model 3 sedan, Model Y SUV, or Cybertruck pickup directly from Tesla instead of through dealers, and they charge on its Supercharger fast-charging network. It also sells Megapack and Powerwall batteries, runs a robotaxi service, and charges drivers a monthly fee for self-driving software that still needs their supervision. Tesla was founded in 2003, with Elon Musk as its lead early investor and a recognized co-founder, and it is based in Austin, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founded
2003

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