Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Staff Software Engineer and Team Lead - AC Charging

Embedded EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

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

About the Job

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience building, debugging, and shipping software for embedded products.
Experience leading technical teams, mentoring engineers, and driving strategic planning.
A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Proficiency in real-time embedded systems or embedded Linux, embedded systems languages such as C, C++, or Rust, and debugging hardware.

Responsibilities

Design, architect, and deliver AC charging device software across real-time embedded and embedded Linux environments.
Own and contribute to core product areas including metering, communication stacks, safety-related behaviors, charging state machines, diagnostics, and validation.
Collaborate with Product, Hardware, System Integration, Compliance, and Service to translate requirements, including regional compliance, into hardware and software designs, API contracts, tests, and shippable firmware.
Define system architecture, automated testing strategy, and engineering practices that improve product reliability, developer productivity, and release confidence.
Plan, execute, and delegate roadmap initiatives to meet product and business requirements on time with high-quality, scalable software solutions.

Desired Qualifications

Exposure to electric vehicle charging, safety standards, global or market compliance, multi-device site controls, or third-party protocol integration.

Category	Energy Engineering
Location	Palo Alto, California
Requisition ID	287223
Type	Full-time

Job Description

The Tesla Energy Device Software team is hiring a Staff Software Engineer and Team Lead to build firmware and device software for Wall Connector and Tesla's broader AC charging products. <p>Wall Connector is not only installed in millions of homes and parking spaces, charging tens of millions of cars. It’s also a key part of Powershare, Tesla's bidirectional vehicle (V2X) strategy, enabling home backup and vehicle grid participation at terawatt-hour scale. You'll lead embedded component design, device-level controls, metering compliance, multi-device site coordination, third-party system integration, and global product readiness including regional compliance and certifiable software paths for new markets. </p><p>Our products also face the challenges of any IoT system: installation, configuration, field diagnostics, and health monitoring. They need to be commissioned and registered, run autonomously, respond to commands, generate telemetry, and receive over-the-air updates. Our stack spans bare-metal and RTOS firmware, embedded Linux, local and cloud protocols, and validation tooling. You’ll bring pragmatism, comfort diving into unfamiliar code and standards, willingness to collaborate across hardware, validation, compliance, product, and partner teams, ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment, and strong engineering leadership to the table. </p>

Job Responsibilities

Design, architect, and deliver AC charging device software across real-time embedded and embedded Linux environments
Own and contribute to core product areas such as metering, comms stacks, safety-related behaviors, charging state machines, diagnostics, and validation
Collaborate with Product, Hardware, System Integration, Compliance, and Service to turn requirements (including regional compliance) into hardware and software designs, API contracts, tests, and shippable firmware
Define system architecture, automated testing strategy, and engineering practices that raise product reliability, developer productivity, and release confidence
Plan, execute, and delegate roadmap initiatives to meet product and business requirements on time with high quality, scalable software solutions

Job Requirements

5 years’ experience building, debugging, and shipping software for embedded products
Experience leading technical teams, mentoring engineers, and driving strategic planning
Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
Proficiency in real-time embedded systems or embedded Linux, embedded systems languages (C, C++, Rust), and debugging hardware
Exposure to EV charging, safety standards, global/market compliance, multi-device site controls, or third-party protocol integration is a plus

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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