Robotics Engineer, Body Shop

About the role

• Robotics Engineer, Body Shop | Tesla (Manufacturing)
• Location: AUSTIN, Texas | Req ID: 283957 | Job Type: Full-time
• What to Expect

You’ll own robot programming, commissioning, and process optimization on Tesla Body-in-White lines—raising efficiency, quality, and safety with process, controls, production, and maintenance. This is a hands-on role: path and process issues on the floor, then durable fixes in the cell.

What You'll Do

• Program and commission KUKA (KRL / WorkVisual) and FANUC (TP / Roboguide) robots on BIW lines
• Adjust robot paths, tools, bases, and reference frames
• Set up and validate robot safety, including DCS, SafeOperation, and related systems
• Configure and optimize gluing, bolting, riveting, welding, and material-handling sequences
• Integrate robot I/O with PLCs and prove out robot-to-peripheral communication
• Configure and integrate vision (Mech-Mind, iRVision, Perceptron, Coherix /

VisionTech)

• Troubleshoot live issues; maintain backups and documentation; coordinate with process, controls, and maintenance

What You'll Bring

• Hands-on

Additional information

KUKA (KRL / WorkVisual) and FANUC (TP / Roboguide) programming and commissioning, ideally in Body-in-White or similar high-volume assembly

• Experience adjusting paths, tools, bases, and frames, and commissioning DCS /

SafeOperation (or equivalent)

• Practical knowledge of joining and handling processes (glue, bolt, rivet, weld) and of PLC signal integration
• Experience integrating industrial vision (Mech-Mind, FANUC iRVision, Perceptron,

Coherix, or similar)

• Comfortable debugging on the line, keeping backups and documentation current, and working across process, controls, and maintenance
• Bias for action in a changing production environment, with close attention to safety and quality
• Prior launch / install / buyoff on BIW or other high-volume automated lines
• Familiarity with Tesla or similar OEM body-shop standards, cycle-time recovery, and production support

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)