Software Validation Engineer, Self-Driving
Tesla · Palo Alto, CA · 6 days ago
On-siteQuality Assurance$113k–$303k/yrFull-time
What You'll Do
- Define, measure, and review quality and performance metrics to assess release readiness across customer and robotaxi builds
- Review automation outputs, investigate failures, and perform root-cause analysis with meticulous attention to detail
- Work directly with autopilot engineers to triage issues, scope fixes, and ensure timely resolution before release deadlines
- Identify gaps in data collection, test coverage, and observability tooling, and partner with tooling engineers to close them
- Build and improve validation scripts, analysis tools, and automation to strengthen the quality pipeline
- Drive cross-functional validation efforts, coordinating with software, firmware, and QA engineers to ensure comprehensive coverage
- Maintain and improve dashboards (e.g., Grafana) and alerting to surface quality signals clearly and accurately
- Analyze fleet telemetry, simulation results, and test data to detect patterns, edge cases, and areas of concern
What You'll Bring
- Evidence of solid coding skills in Python and C++
- Proven experience in QA engineering, test automation, or validation-focused development
- Strong analytical skills with meticulous attention to detail when reviewing data, metrics, and test results
- Strong understanding of SQL and telemetry analysis for performance and reliability evaluation
- Experience with dashboarding and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
- Experience with LLMs and AI-assisted engineering workflows, including prompt design and building automated skills or agents
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical findings into clear action items for engineering teams
- Strong follow-through and organizational discipline, able to track multiple issues and drive them to resolution
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits package
- Medical plans, dental, vision, and HSA contributions
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) with employer match
- Employee stock purchase plans
- Other financial benefits
- Basic life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time
- Paid holidays
- Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
- Voluntary benefits such as critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
- Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
- Tesla Babies program
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program