Backend Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform, SI Infrastructure

About the role

Backend Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform, SI Infrastructure | Tesla (Tesla SI)

Location: Palo Alto, California | Req ID: 255367 | Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

As a Software Engineer within the Autopilot SI Infrastructure team, you will work on reinforcing, optimizing, and scaling our infrastructure components supporting SI research activities for Autopilot and the Optimus.

At the core of our autonomy capabilities are neural networks that the research team is designing to train on very large amounts of data, across large-scale GPU clusters. Robustly training these models at scale and in the shortest amount of time is critical to our mission.

We are building out the Machine Learning Platform that our engineers and leadership use to schedule, manage and monitor machine learning experiments, data pipelines and artifacts. With the ever-increasing size of our datasets and compute clusters, we are looking for an experienced backend engineer to help drive scalability improvements and new capabilities in the platform.

What You'll Do

• Develop and deploy solutions to scale our infrastructure effectively in response to rapidly growing demands
• Drive implementation of best practices and monitoring systems to proactively detect and address issues in our production environment
• Work across the stack on tools and infrastructure empowering the machine learning team to be effective. This ranges from developing/running model training and evaluation code to back-end infrastructure to occasional front-end work
• Coordinate required resources with the team managing the cluster hardware to maintain high availability
• Work closely with the research team to understand requirements and priorities

What You'll Bring

• Expertise in designing scalable and durable distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of Python/Go and Linux
• Experience working with diverse backend infrastructure components (SQL / NoSQL databases, caching, message brokers, event streams, monitoring etc.)
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and setting up CI/CD flows
• Knowledge of front-end development in React / strong product sense
• Knowledge of machine learning, computer vision, or neural networks
• Experience working with HPC clusters

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: 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
• Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)

Expected Compensation$140,000 - $390,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefitsPay 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. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.