Sr. Software Engineer, Energy Products

What to Expect Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to renewable energy, and we need your help! Our work is more than a mission statement to us; it’s something we are passionate about. We are the engineers behind the world's largest fleet of smart energy storage systems as well as the Tesla Supercharger network. We are seeking a talented, motivated, and independent engineer to join the team that works on the heart and soul of Tesla’s Energy products. Our team writes the app for the Tesla Site Controller. This application is responsible for managing all the devices on a customer site, including the solar, batteries, generators, vehicle chargers, power meters, and more. It also handles communication with the Tesla cloud and provides data used by the customer-facing mobile apps. We deliver exciting features that enable customers to do things like take their house off the electrical grid, charge a vehicle with solar energy, or even power entire communities using renewable energy. The Site Manager app and its libraries are all written in Golang and run on an embedded Linux machine. An ideal candidate will have a strong grasp of multi-threaded programming concepts, an understanding of Linux systems, a familiarity with object-oriented design and principles, and an eagerness to keep learning in an ever-evolving environment.

What You’ll Do

• Develop high-quality, testable software
• Contribute to system architecture and design
• Evaluate and improve control strategies and algorithms
• Debug issues in the field and devise solution paths
• Collaborate with validation teams to develop integration test strategies

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of professional software development experience using application layer languages like Golang, Java, C/C++, and Python
• Experience writing unit tests and practicing test-driven development.
• Comfortable with multi-tasking, prioritizing, and working in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience developing mission-critical applications on embedded Linux.
• Strong communications skills preferred.
• Experience with software development for IoT platforms (Internet of Things) and developing mission-critical applications on embedded Linux.
• Experience with JSON, Protobuf, REST, HTTP/S, Ethernet, CAN; And Control systems
• Experience with electrical grid, AC/DC power, power converters, etc