The Tesla Energy team is bringing battery and power electronics technology to the grid to facilitate a renewable energy ecosystem and increase grid reliability and versatility. Tesla is leveraging its breakthrough powertrain technology and manufacturing scale to develop and deploy grid connected storage at residential, industrial,and utility levels.

The Energy team is small, committed, and fast moving. As a member of our team, you will shape the direction of our products. You must have a genuine passion for engineering products that will fundamentally change the world’s energy infrastructure, and thrive working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Tesla Energy is looking for a Sr. Firmware Engineer to drive next generation designs and improve current designs. This role entails significant ownership of our world class Energy product firmware, ranging from architecture, implementation, through validation and ongoing fleet improvements.

• Develop, enhance and debug new and existing real-time firmware in C and C++
• Drive firmware development for performance, scalability, modularity, robustness, and tight integration with the hardware
• Hands-on hardware bring-up, system debugging and code optimization
• Implement continuous improvements and best practices within the team, and larger organization
• Drive firmware/hardware co-design for optimized solutions and schedules

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of professional firmware development experience
• Capable of delivering top quality C and C++ code in a real time embedded environment
• Expert software fundamentals including architectural design, algorithm development, data structures, code modularity, and maintainability
• Significant multithreaded and RTOS experience
• Desired to have experience implementing firmware for power conversion, thermal controls, battery management, or other highly physical product implementations
• Desired to have test driven development experience using unit testing, software in the loop, and hardware in the loop methodologies. Our Developers participate significantly in firmware testing, so a validation mindset is required