What to Expect

Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation, and efficiency.

The Update Systems teams builds and maintains the Linux services that perform the Over-the-Air (OTA) update of Tesla's vehicle and energy products spanning across both our customer and engineering fleets. In addition to infotainment and autopilot software updates, our systems orchestrate the update of a wide array of other components ranging from individual body controllers to navigation map data and video games. We work closely with several other teams to provide a fast, flexible, and reliable update platform to ensure Tesla products can improve quickly and deliver new experiences to our customers.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver high reliability C/Go code for updating firmware or software components on Linux hosts or attached peripherals.

• Work with a variety of teams to design, develop, and integrate new software update mechanisms and flow.

• Troubleshoot update issues and work closely with our validation teams to build testing infrastructure for more resilient systems.

• Analyze fleet update metrics to find potential issues and suggest improvements.

What You’ll Bring

• Qualified in EE/CE/CS, or the equivalent in experience with evidence of exceptional ability

• Several years experience working with and writing software for embedded Linux systems; experience with software/kernel updates a plus

• Proficiency in C/Go Programming

• Experience in Python/Perl/Bash scripting

• Understanding of software code signing, authenticated encryption, or other cryptographic techniques for ensuring secure software deployment

• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills

• Network programming experience with a focus on any of the following: TFTP, HTTP(s), websockets, or integrating custom TCP/IP protocols

• Experience with serial, I2C, and SPI protocols a plus