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Sr. Software Engineer, ETL, Cell Engineering

Pay
$120,000 – $216,000 per year
Location
Palo Alto, CA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Listed
28 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • ETL
  • data pipelines
  • software engineering

About the role

Sr. Software Engineer, ETL, Cell Engineering | Tesla (Engineering & Information Technology)

Location: Palo Alto, California | Req ID: 284478 | Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

The Tesla Battery Cell Data Team owns the database pipeline and databases that store battery test data. We build web applications to view that data, start battery tests, and plan groups of tests. Our applications support hundreds of global users; our pipeline supports test labs across the world and dozens of different data streams. We are comprised of data and software engineers. We stay close to our end user and engineers on our team have autonomy to define the vision for their products.

As a member of the Cell Data Team, you will write code to extract the data from our battery cyclers, transform the current voltage time data into meaningful battery measurements, and load that data in our various data storage layers. By efficiently loading the data and making it available, you will greatly enhance our ability to make informed decisions regarding new battery technologies, drive down battery costs, and accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.

What You'll Do

  • Write modular Python code to manipulate high density current, voltage, time data into metrics that can be used to make battery decisions
  • Work with stakeholders from across Tesla to align on needs, the minimum viable product, and future iterations of the product
  • Write code to interface with battery testers
  • Build data pipelines that are reliable, maintainable, and scalable
  • Leverage existing APIs to fetch metadata about a battery cell. Gracefully handle service disruptions from external APIs
  • Provide mentorship and code review to junior engineers
  • Design metrics around the performance of the data pipeline

What You'll Bring

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Experience using Docker
  • Experience with unit tests, integration tests, and end to end tests
  • Experience with reading from and creating relational databases
  • Experience with extracting, loading and transforming large data sets
  • Experience building distributed systems
  • Experience manipulating pandas or spark data frames is a plus
  • Experience building public facing APIs is a plus
  • Experience with electrochemistry is a plus

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$120,000 - $216,000/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.

Read the original posting

From Tesla's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 12, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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