Staff SoC Product & Test Engineer, AI Hardware

The Tesla AI Hardware team is at the forefront of revolutionizing artificial intelligence through cutting-edge hardware innovation. Comprising brilliant engineers and visionaries, the team designs and develops advanced AI inference chips tailored to accelerate Tesla’s machine learning capabilities. A key part of this effort is Dojo, Tesla's custom supercomputer system built to efficiently train massive neural networks on vast video data from the fleet. The work of Tesla's AI Hardware team powers the neural networks behind Full Self-Driving (FSD), and Tesla humanoid robot, Optimus, pushing the boundaries of computational efficiency and performance.

Responsibilities

• Define characterization plans for processor cores and IPs — develop NPI performance stress tests across process, voltage, and temperature
• Perform and correlate measurements across ATE and SLT platforms over volume — define guard bands and drive corrective actions for test platform alignment
• Develop solutions to set optimal system voltage and frequency operating points — align from manufacturing screen through system operation
• Own silicon bring-up — execute structural, functional, and parametric tests; debug failures and quantify performance shifts using accelerated stress
• Analyze volume production data — identify and implement solutions to improve yield and throughput
• Arc from NPI bring-up and performance characterization through production yield optimization and IP-level test content, ensuring every product ships at validated quality and performance
• Architect and deploy volume diagnostic data processing pipelines for SoC logic and memory
• Integrate AI-based deep learning techniques to improve diagnostics convergence, fault isolation, and failure analysis success rates
• Drive defect reduction with foundry partners — build defect paretos, recommend FA candidates, and validate improvements from process changes
• Root cause qualification fails and field returns — develop new test content targeting identified fault types

Requirements

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years across SoC characterization, yield, diagnostics, and IP test engineering
• Hands-on experience across ATE, SLT, and bench platforms
• Deep expertise in PVT characterization, guard band definition, and ATE/SLT correlation
• Experience with diagnostic data pipelines and AI/ML-based fault isolation techniques
• IP test development experience for High-Speed IO and Mixed Signal IPs

Qualifications

• Ability to use agentic AI flows to automate yield analysis, diagnostics, and test optimization

Skills

• Expertise in tensor operations, matrix computations, and optimized data paths for advanced AI workloads
• Passion for pushing the boundaries of low-precision arithmetic, quantization techniques, and hardware acceleration for machine learning

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Medical plans
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage)
• Vision plans
• HSA Contribution
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program