Internship

Job Description

This position is expected to start around August or September 2025 and continue through the Fall term (ending approximately December 2025) or continuing into Winter/Spring 2026 if available and there is an opportunity to do so. We ask for a minimum of 12 weeks, full-time and on-site, for most internships. Our internship program is for students who are actively enrolled in an academic program. Recent graduates seeking employment after graduation and not returning to school should apply for full-time positions, not internships. 

International Students: If your work authorization is through CPT, please consult your school on your ability to work 40 hours per week before applying. You must be able to work 40 hours per week on-site. Many students will be limited to part-time during the academic year.   

About the Team

Tesla is re-thinking how batteries are made from the ground up. We’re designing new factories, new equipment, new processes, and new software to rapidly scale battery manufacturing, globally. The primary bottleneck to Tesla’s future expansion (and the transition to sustainable transport and energy storage) is our ability to produce and procure batteries – that’s why we’re innovating in-house, with our collection of world-class engineers, to redefine the industry. Software, data, and automation all play a huge part in this strategy.

We’ve built software from scratch with a nimble and high performing team to meet the specific needs of Tesla’s rapid battery manufacturing scale up. This software tracks every component of the cell manufacturing process and acts as the brain of the entire cell factory. It’s key to ensuring batteries are made safely end-to-end and for understanding how to improve processes.

We’re looking for a software engineering intern that will help us to build the data platform and analytics tools for measuring factory performance. You will help build data infrastructure that will handle millions of events per second, and you will implement datasets and data pipelines that drive critical decisions around manufacturing and product quality. You will also work closely with manufacturing engineers to develop new metrics and build visualizations that enable deeper insights into improving factory operations.

Job Responsibilities

• Build backend software infrastructure that will be part of a global real-time data platform for the manufacturing team
• Build robust validation and testing tools to ensure data quality and software reliability across globally distributed software systems
• Support data scientists and software engineers in using a centralized data platform to build interactive visualizations, generate reports, and conduct statistical analysis
• Work closely with manufacturing engineers to integrate new datasets into the data platform and ensure all data reporting needs can be met

Job Requirements

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science or a related field of study with a graduation date between 2025-2026
• Ability to relocate and work on site in Fremont, CA
• Strong programming experience with at least one of Python, Go, Java, or Scala
• Experience working with databases, data warehouses, or distributed data systems
• Experience with Git or other source control software
• Experience with Kafka, ClickHouse, or Spark is a nice-to-have
• Experience with frontend development using Javascript, Typescript, or React is a nice-to-have
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to quickly translate needs into data analysis problems and effectively communicate learnings