Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Manufacturing SCADA Engineer

Controls & Automation EngineeringPosted on Nov 13

Full-timeAustin, TX, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or equivalent experience is required.
Three to five 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 experience with structured, maintainable code and clean interfaces to higher-level systems is required; Siemens TIA Portal is preferred.
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 systems language shipped in production, such as C, C++, or Go, and the ability to write Rust as the service language are required, including understanding memory, concurrency, and failure.
Strong SQL skills in schema design, indexing, and query performance are required.
Time-series or historian experience is a plus.
The ability to work on the shop floor, read a live PLC, walk a production line, and communicate with operators and technicians is required.
The 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 states, alarms, and operator workflows.
Own the tag architecture end to end, including UDTs, naming, scan classes, deadbands, and scaling, and ensure it is structured, documented, and reusable.
Set and enforce HMI design standards for screen hierarchy, navigation, layout grid, color and symbol conventions, and alarm presentation, applying high-performance HMI principles.
Own HMI at both the local machine panel and plant-level SCADA client, keeping state names, alarm text, colors, and navigation logic consistent.
Design alarm presentations operators can trust by rationalizing priorities, suppressing noise, and making displays guide appropriate action.
Build screens that are readable at a distance, usable with gloves, legible under plant lighting, and performant on the panel hardware installed at each station.
Validate designs with users by observing operators during real faults and changing the screens when needed rather than relying on training material.
Build engineering and management views, including downtime Pareto, OEE, throughput, and process traces.
Design and query relational, non-relational, and time-series databases to support fast trends and reliable reads and writes.
Write named, parameterized queries for tags, UDTs, screens, dashboards, and reports; keep them in version control and review them like other code.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with Siemens TIA Portal PLC programming is preferred.
Time-series or historian experience is a plus.

Category	Manufacturing
Location	AUSTIN, Texas
Requisition ID	289886
Type	Full-time

Job Description

Tesla is standing up Optimus manufacturing at Optimus Factory Texas (OFTX) 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 build Ignition SCADA and HMI that people can actually use under pressure, and design the real-time tag, alarm, and historian layer underneath it to stay fast and honest as the line scales. The bar, in order: reliability, performance, ease of use. If those three conflict, reliability wins.This is an on-site role at OFTX. 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 reported is readily available, easy to understand, and broadcast to the right audiences.

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
Own the tag architecture end to end — UDTs, naming, scan classes, deadbands, and scaling. Structured, documented, reusable. The next cell should inherit a pattern, not start over
Set and enforce the HMI design standard: screen hierarchy, navigation, layout grid, color and symbol conventions, and alarm presentation. High-performance HMI principles — color means something, and most of the screen is grey because of it
Own HMI at both tiers — the local panel at the machine and the plant-level SCADA client. Same state names, same alarm text, same colors, same navigation logic. An operator who walks from the cell to the line view should not have to translate
Design alarm presentation that operators trust. Rationalize priorities, suppress the noise, and make the display answer “what do I do now” instead of “what happened”. An alarm that fires should mean someone moves
Build screens that hold up on the floor: readable at distance, usable with gloves, legible under plant lighting, and fast on the panel hardware actually mounted at the station — not on your workstation
Validate designs with the people who use them. Watch an operator work a screen during a real fault before calling it donem and change the screen rather than the training material
Build the engineering and management views as well as the operator ones: downtime pareto, OEE, throughput, process traces. Different audience, same discipline
Strong database design and querying skills across relational, non-relational, and time-series databases. A trend over a year of data should open as fast as a trend over an hour. Keep reads fast, keep writes honest, and do not paper over a bad contract with a view
Write the queries behind every tag, UDT, screen, dashboard, and report. Named, parameterized, in version control, and reviewed like any other code

Job Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or equivalent 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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