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Palo Alto, CA

Software Engineer, Foundation Inference Infrastructure

No experience
Technology & Digital
Software engineering
Posted:
December 29, 2025

Tesla

Electric vehicles and clean-energy company
67.9
Palpable Score
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What to Expect

As a member of the Foundation Inference Infrastructure team, you will design & implement a diverse set of backend services and tools that power autonomy software and hardware development processes. The systems you build will have a large impact on autonomy, from accelerating chip design & Machine Learning workflows, compiler development, model validation, and evaluation & validation of the complete software-hardware stack. In this role, you'll bring top-notch software engineering skills and can contribute to our systems immediately. A strong candidate will be an excellent software generalist with passion for building scalable infrastructure and optimizing backend pipelines for ML inference workloads and hardware design automation.

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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