Controls Engineering Internship
What to Expect
Disclaimer: This position is expected to start around January or February 2023 and continue through the entire Spring term (i.e. through April/May) or into early Summer 2023 if available. We ask for a minimum of 12 weeks, full-time, for all Autopilot/Robotics internships. Please consider before submitting an application.
International Students: If your work authorization is through CPT, please consult your school before applying. You must be able to work 40 hours per week. Many students will be limited to part-time depending on their academic standing.
Internship Programs at Tesla
The Internship Recruiting Team is driven by the passion to recognize emerging talent. Our year-round program places the best students in positions that they will grow both technically and personally through their experience working closely with their Manager, Mentor, and team. We are dedicated to providing an experience that allows for the intern to experience life at Tesla by given them projects that are critical to their team’s success.
Locations
- Palo Alto, CA
About the Team
Tesla is on a path to build humanoid bi-pedal robots (Tesla Bot) at scale to automate repetitive and boring tasks for manufacturing/logistics. As a member of the software team, you will design and implement locomotion, manipulation and state estimation algorithms on actual bipedal robots.
What You’ll Do
- Design, model, implement and test motion planning and controls algorithms on multiple TeslaBot platforms.
- Implement critical software modules in C++ on the TeslaBot stack.
- Work on prototype hardware to push its limits with ever improving capability, this directly feeds into enabling a fast hardware and software iteration loop.
What You’ll Bring
- Embedded Control Systems.
- Experience with biped locomotion, multi-DOF manipulation
- Experience with incorporating model and sensors in state estimation framework to be used in closed loop systems.
- Familiarity with simulation tools such as Matlab / Simulink.