Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - Robotics Fleet Software

Engineering LeadershipPosted on Nov 11

Full-timeAustin, TX, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

At least 6 years of relevant engineering experience, including hands-on software commissioning across multiple material handling deployments and at least one autonomous mobile robot fleet deployment through site acceptance.
Experience writing and reviewing production integration code that connects manufacturing execution systems or warehouse software to equipment controls.
People management experience hiring and developing engineers who take ownership of factory launches.
Experience validating simulation assumptions and testing throughput, reliability, and fault recovery on physical equipment.
Experience allocating engineering capacity across simultaneous deployments and negotiating commitments with factory teams.
Experience briefing executives on production performance and coaching engineers to present technical decisions and tradeoffs.
Experience training operations teams, documenting recovery procedures, and leading software escalations after handoff.

Responsibilities

Manage site forward deployed engineers who bring robotics products into production across Tesla factories.
Staff projects, set delivery commitments, and coach engineers through commissioning and handoff.
Brief executives on site readiness, performance against production targets, and decisions requiring their attention.
Hire, onboard, and manage site software engineers, coaching them to own technical decisions and deployment outcomes.
Allocate engineers across sites and negotiate delivery commitments based on capacity, dependencies, and production priorities.
Review process assumptions with factory teams and lead virtual commissioning, factory acceptance testing, and site validation against throughput and recovery targets.
Brief executives on readiness, risks, and decisions needed, and coach site engineers to present results and recovery plans directly.
Train operations and sustaining teams to handle routine faults and establish escalation paths for software investigations and production changes.
Coach engineers through failures across software and equipment, and guide them in building diagnostic tools, reviewing fixes, and validating recovery on the line.
Decide which changes site engineers can deliver and work with product management and development on improvements that apply across factories.

Category	Tesla SI
Location	AUSTIN, Texas
Requisition ID	289228
Type	Full-time

Job Description

<p>Tesla’s Factory Automation Robotics team builds software that controls mobile robots and coordinates material flow across robot fleets, conveyors and automated storage and retrieval systems. You will manage the site forward deployed engineers who bring these products into production across Tesla factories. You will staff projects, set delivery commitments and coach engineers through commissioning and handoff. You and your engineers will regularly brief executives on site readiness, performance against production targets and decisions that need their attention. </p><p>This position is based in Austin, TX, with approximately 25% travel to Tesla factories. Site Forward Deployed Engineers report to this role. </p>

Job Responsibilities

Hire, onboard and manage site software engineers and coach them to own technical decisions and deployment outcomes
Allocate engineers across sites and negotiate delivery commitments based on capacity, dependencies and production priorities
Review process assumptions with factory teams and lead virtual commissioning, factory acceptance testing and site validation against throughput and recovery targets
Brief executives regularly on readiness, risks and decisions needed and coach site engineers to present results and recovery plans directly
Train operations and sustaining teams to handle routine faults and establish escalation paths for software investigations and production changes
Coach engineers through failures across software and equipment and guide them in building diagnostic tools, reviewing fixes and validating recovery on the line
Decide which changes site engineers can deliver and work with product management and development on improvements that apply across factories

Job Requirements

6+ years of relevant engineering experience including hands-on software commissioning across multiple material handling deployments and at least one autonomous mobile robot (AMR) fleet deployment through site acceptance
Experience writing and reviewing production integration code that connects manufacturing execution systems (MES) or warehouse software to equipment controls
People management experience hiring and developing engineers who take ownership of factory launches
Experience validating simulation assumptions and testing throughput, reliability and fault recovery on physical equipment
Experience allocating engineering capacity across simultaneous deployments and negotiating commitments with factory teams
Experience briefing executives on production performance and coaching engineers to present technical decisions and tradeoffs
Experience training operations teams, documenting recovery procedures and leading software escalations after handoff

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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