Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Manufacturing Controls Development Engineer - Optimus SCADA & Data Collection

Controls & Automation EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeAustin, TX, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or equivalent work experience is required.
3–5 years of experience building and supporting industrial software in a manufacturing environment, including SCADA, HMI, PLC, or plant data systems, is required.
Demonstrated PLC programming ability is required; Siemens TIA Portal is preferred, with structured, maintainable code and clean interfaces to higher-level systems.
Hands-on experience deploying Ignition or a comparable industrial SCADA/HMI platform such as WinCC, FactoryTalk, or iFIX is required.
Production experience in Rust or a shipped systems language such as C, C++, or Go, and the discipline to write Rust as the service language, is required; understanding of memory, concurrency, and failure is expected.
Strong SQL skills in schema design, indexing, and query performance are required.
Comfort working on the shop floor, reading a live PLC, walking a line, and communicating with operators and technicians is required.
Ability to work under competing deadlines without shipping fragile systems is required.
Clear written and verbal communication for operators, controls engineers, and software peers is required.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate Ignition SCADA and HMI for Optimus manufacturing, including line overviews, equipment state, alarms, and operator workflows.
Develop and maintain Rust services for industrial data collection, buffering, and delivery, owning latency, backpressure, and failure behavior.
Program and review PLC logic that publishes a clean data contract—including machine state, counts, timers, and process results—to SCADA and downstream systems, using structured, documented, reusable code.
Design SQL schemas and queries for operational and historical data, keeping reads fast and writes accurate.
Instrument new and existing equipment so operations, quality, and engineering can trust availability, downtime, counts, and process traces as a source of truth.
Partner with line controls engineers on data interfaces during design, installation, and ramp; own the data leaving equipment cells rather than electrical cabinets or robot cells.
Debug across PLC tags, networks, services, databases, and HMI to identify the actual fault.
Set and enforce data and HMI conventions for subsequent production lines.
Support commissioning and ramp on the shop floor and travel to vendor sites or sister factories as needed.

Desired Qualifications

Siemens TIA Portal experience is preferred.
Time-series or historian experience is a plus.

Category	Manufacturing
Location	AUSTIN, Texas
Requisition ID	285514
Type	Full-time

Job Description

Tesla is standing up Optimus manufacturing at Gigafactory Texas (GFTX) in Austin. This role owns the factory's data path: from the PLC to the operator, from a live machine to a decision. You will write Rust services that collect and serve industrial data, build Ignition HMI and SCADA that people can actually use under pressure, program PLCs so the data contract is correct at the source, and design SQL that stays fast as the line scales. The bar, in order: reliability, performance, ease of use. If those three conflict, reliability wins. You will work on the floor with controls, manufacturing engineering, and operations as equipment lands and ramps. It is not a panel-design, robot-programming, or EPLAN role. You make sure the data leaving the cell is correct, complete, and usable.

Job Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate Ignition SCADA and HMI for Optimus manufacturing: line overview, equipment state, alarms, and operator workflows that stay simple when the line is not
Develop and maintain Rust services for industrial data collection, buffering, and delivery. Own latency, backpressure, and failure behavior. A quiet, correct path beats a clever one that drops data
Program and review PLC logic that publishes a clean data contract (machine state, counts, timers, process results) to SCADA and downstream systems. Structured, documented, reusable code
Design SQL schemas and queries for operational and historical data. Keep reads fast. Keep writes honest. Do not paper over a bad contract with a view
Instrument new and existing equipment so operations, quality, and engineering can trust what they see: availability, downtime, counts, process traces. One source of truth
Partner with line controls engineers on data interfaces during design, install, and ramp. You do not own electrical cabinets or robot cells; you own the data leaving them
Debug across the stack when the screen is wrong: PLC tag, network, service, database, or HMI. Find the actual fault, not a nearby one
Set and enforce data and HMI conventions so the next line does not invent a new dialect
Support commissioning and ramp on the shop floor. Some travel for vendor sites or sister factories as needed

Job Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or equivalent work experience
3-5 years building and supporting industrial software in a manufacturing environment (SCADA, HMI, PLC, or plant data systems)
Demonstrated PLC programming (Siemens TIA Portal preferred) with structured, maintainable code and clean interfaces to higher-level systems
Hands-on Ignition, or a comparable industrial SCADA/HMI platform you have actually deployed (WinCC, FactoryTalk, iFIX). Screenshots are not experience
Production experience in Rust, or a systems language you have shipped (C, C++, or Go) and the discipline to write Rust as the service language. We care that you understand memory, concurrency, and failure
Strong SQL: schema design, indexing, query performance. Time-series or historian experience is a plus
Comfort on the shop floor: reading a live PLC, walking a line, talking to operators and technicians
Able to work under competing deadlines without shipping fragile systems. A smaller reliable surface beats a large one that lies
Clear written and verbal communication. You will write for operators, controls engineers, and software peers

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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