Internship, Fullstack Engineer, AI Tooling (Winter/Spring 2027)

About The Team

As an intern on the AI Tooling team, you bring top-notch software engineering skills and can contribute to our tooling systems immediately. Knowledge of machine learning, computer vision, or neural networks is a plus but not required. That can be learned on the job as you work with our machine learning experts. A strong candidate for the AI Tooling team will either be an excellent software generalist, or someone who is exceptionally strong in either backend or frontend engineering. Your application will be considered for two different teams, Optimus and Autopilot.

Optimus AI Team: The AI Tooling team is a central part of Autopilot AI. The systems you build will have a large impact on the entire lifecycle of model development. This includes data processing, data discovery, annotation, and visualization. This also includes tools that help us automate the entire workflows of training, validation, and productionization of our Autopilot neural networks and the Tesla Bot.

Autopilot AI Team: As a member of the Autopilot AI Tooling team you will design and implement a diverse set of tools that power our machine learning workflows and Humanoid Robot. You will work closely with some of the best, world-class AI researchers and machine learning experts towards Tesla's goal of a self-driving future.

What You'll Do

• Improve and maintain the frontends and backends of our AI web tools
• Work with controls, planning, and machine learning engineers to build tooling tailored to their workflows
• Debug issues with our live system, identify the root causes, and fix them
• Build metrics and monitor performance + reliability of our systems

What You'll Bring

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant field of study with a graduation date between May 2027 - May 2028
• Must be able to relocate and work on site in Palo Alto, CA
• Strong knowledge of Python and Typescript
• Experience building modern web applications using React (Three.js nice to have)
• Experience with k8s is preferred
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills

Benefits

• Medical plans with $0 payroll deduction options
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans with $0 payroll contribution options
• Company Paid HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Medical Plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company Paid Basic Life, AD&D, and short-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits including: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program

Pay

Expected Compensation: $125,000.00 per year. Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered.

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