Platform Development Engineer, Manufacturing Systems

Tesla is building applications to enable manufacturing, with an eye towards reliability, availability, scalability, speed and security. We're a diverse team composed of Controls Automation Engineers, Software Engineers, and various other disciplines that help facilitate manual and automated manufacturing processes.
As a Platform Development Engineer you'll be working with automation software, databases, virtual machines, and other applications that enable manufacturing in our various factories.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software modules, written in Java, that add features to industrial automation software platforms
• Design and implement automation for managing the deployment and upgrades of industrial automation applications
• Assist Software, Controls, Manufacturing and other types of Engineers with using industrial automation software in a sustainable manner
• Ensuring best practices and observability of the industrial automation software, such as metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Consult on and design infrastructure, systems and application architecture

Requirements

• 3+ years working with Java
• Expert skills in object oriented programming languages, such as Java and Python
• Expert skills with Java build systems
• Expert skills in Linux and its administration
• Experience with databases such as MySQL, MSSQL, SQLite
• Ignition software experience
• Comfortable on an on-call rotation
• Habitual documenter and spreader of knowledge
• Willing to mentor other team members and engineers with less knowledge
• Strong bias for action vs endless planning, willing to get hands dirty and make mistakes sometimes

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