What to Expect
The AI Hardware team is seeking an Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer with a focus on hardware acceleration platforms to design, build, monitor, and optimize workflows critical to silicon development. This role collaborates closely with the verification team, software development teams, and EDA vendors to accelerate and streamline Tesla's silicon design processes using emulation and FPGA-based prototyping systems such as Synopsys Zebu and HAPS, Cadence Palladium and Protium, and Mentor Veloce. The ideal candidate will combine software development best practices with hardware acceleration expertise, ensuring robust, transparent, and efficient workflows for hardware acceleration model building and execution.
We are open to hiring in Austin, TX; Palo Alto, CA.
What You'll Do
- Develop and maintain configurable workflows for hardware acceleration model building
- Develop and maintain workflows for hardware acceleration runtime use, including user scheduling, job monitoring, and debug flows
- Collaborate with EDA vendors to enhance the performance, scalability, and efficiency of vendor tools for emulation and prototyping environments
- Monitor and troubleshoot verification infrastructure, including hardware acceleration platforms, to ensure efficient use of compute and license resources
- Automate repetitive verification processes related to platform setup, design integration, and regression testing on emulation and FPGA systems
- Document workflows, tools, platform configurations, and best practices to facilitate knowledge sharing and team onboarding
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong programming skills in Python for scripting, automation, and tool development
- Experience with source control systems (e.g., Git)
- Familiarity with software development best practices, including version control, code reviews, and testing methodologies, and their application to hardware acceleration workflows
- Proven ability to work in cross-functional teams, balancing the needs of hardware engineers, software developers, and IT administrators
- Strong problem-solving skills to debug complex infrastructure issues spanning software, hardware acceleration platforms, and network domains
- Knowledge of hardware acceleration platforms
Compensation and Benefits
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
- Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical 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 Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna 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
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary 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
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Tesla Motors, Inc.
paid holidays, flex time, 401(k)
Oct 14, 2025