Tesla Internship Factory Firmware Embedded Developer 

United States, California, Fremont 

101859490

Consider before submitting an application:

This position is expected to start around January 2025 and continue through the entire Winter term (i.e. through May 2025) or into Summer 2025 if available. We ask for a minimum of 12 weeks, full-time and on-site, for most internships.

International Students: If your work authorization is through CPT, please consult your school on your ability to work 40 hours per week before applying. You must be able to work 40 hours per week on-site. Many students will be limited to part-time during the academic year.

This role will focus on initiatives to use vehicle software and firmware as a tool to improve manufacturability of our vehicles and develop solutions to ensure production uptime and quality. This will require understanding of multiple vehicle software stacks, from embedded systems to diagnostic tooling, as well as vehicle electrical and hardware systems. Therefore, curiosity and willingness to learn new concepts are critical to connect the dots between multiple vehicle interfaces and design end-to-end solutions together with other teams.

• Identify vehicle software/firmware improvements to aid in bringing up new vehicles and factories

• Develop firmware solutions to enable new product introduction

• Develop software tools used to diagnose vehicles that need repairs to their electronic systems

• Develop improvements to the testing infrastructure used for vehicles in the factory

• Design improvements to improve manufacturing operations rate, quality, safety, & efficiency

• Become a technical expert in multiple vehicle subsystems to understand functionality within the manufacturing environment

• Understand and debug hardware and software interactions during design, launch, and deployment of products or features