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Fremont, CA

Internship, Machine Learning Engineer, Factory Software (Winter/Spring 2026)

Internship
Technology & Digital
Software engineering
Posted:
December 29, 2025

Tesla

Electric vehicles and clean-energy company
67.9
Palpable Score
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About the Team

Factory Software is responsible for managing the applications that run our production, logistics, maintenance, and safety systems. Machine Learning Engineers cut across all these domains to optimize our ability to build the best products efficiently. A Machine Learning Engineer will train custom computer vision models to detect quality defects before a vehicle leaves the factory or to guide a robot to automate production. They utilize natural language processing to do question answering and systematically identify the types of issues encountered by customers. Statistics and optimization techniques are used to reduce costs of packaging and optimize factory layouts and process designs. The best engineers deeply understand the needs of the operation teams and solve problems at the source using the techniques most applicable to each case. Machine learning engineers can develop novel algorithms, build and clean datasets, train models, integrate models into the codebase, and perform continuous automated monitoring to ensure long-term success.

What You’ll Do

What You’ll Bring

About the company

Tesla

Company overview
Tesla builds electric vehicles and sells related software and services, including driver-assistance features and connected-car updates. Tesla also operates an energy business selling battery storage products and solar, and runs a large charging network. Tesla sells to consumers and businesses directly, with a growing footprint of service, delivery, and retail locations. Tesla’s operations span engineering, manufacturing, and field service at scale.

Locations and presence

Tesla’s corporate headquarters is in Austin, Texas, at Gigafactory Texas, and Tesla also lists an engineering headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Tesla has major manufacturing and operational sites across the US and internationally, alongside a wide network of service centers and delivery locations.

Palpable Score

67.9
/ 100
Tesla offers strong early-career access through high-volume internships and a clear non-degree pathway into technician roles via Tesla START, but the candidate experience can be unpredictable because the company openly warns that not every applicant will be contacted. Pay transparency is a bright spot because many Tesla postings include expected compensation ranges and stock language, while 2024 restructuring and layoffs raise stability questions for new hires in some orgs. Public outcomes data for interns and new grads, like conversion rates and early retention, is still mostly missing, which caps the score.
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