Job Description

What to Expect

We're looking for a (Senior) AI Engineer to build AI-powered products that transform how HR works at Tesla. You'll architect and ship production systems that leverage LLMs and modern AI capabilities to solve real business problems - used by thousands of employees across the company. You'll own the full stack, move fast, and drive measurable impact.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate directly with HR leadership, business partners, and cross-functional teams to identify high-impact opportunities and turn them into working software
• Architect, develop, ship, and maintain AI-powered production systems that solve real HR problems with measurable bottom-line impact
• Drive technical decisions on AI/ML architecture, model selection, and evaluation frameworks
• Apply rigorous software engineering practices including version control, testing, CI/CD, and containerization
• Mentor junior engineers and interns, and drive improvements for AI/ML development across the team

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with proven ability to deliver production applications both independently and in teams
• Deep hands-on experience building production systems with LLMs - you've designed, deployed, and iterated on real AI-powered products independently, involving RAG pipelines and agentic frameworks. Experience with the Vercel AI SDK is a big plus
• Strong full-stack engineering skills across modern web stacks (TypeScript, Node.js, React) with the ability to rapidly pick up new technologies
• Solid understanding of evaluation and monitoring for AI systems - you know how to measure whether your AI is actually working and how to improve it
• Strong business intuition: you identify what's worth building, prioritize ruthlessly, and ship solutions that move the needle. You're comfortable translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders and thrive at the intersection of engineering and business strategy
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL. Ideally, you've set up CI/CD and containerized deployments from scratch
• Self-directed and high-agency - you drive projects forward, own outcomes end-to-end, and don't wait for direction
• Excellent English, German is a big plus
• Candidates are expected to uphold and actively promote sustainability principles in their daily work, operating in line with Tesla Global Environmental, Health, Safety & Security (EHS&S) Policy and EMAS requirements, fostering a culture of continuous environmental improvement.

What we offer

You will be working in our state-of-the-art Gigafactory where you’ll solve the world's most interesting problems with the best and brightest people who share a passion to change the world. Tesla’s compensation package includes a competitive salary and Tesla shares or bonuses. Typical benefits that we provide are 30 vacation days, an occupational pension, employee life and disability insurances, free EV charging, product discounts and various transportation benefits.

Candidates are expected to uphold and actively promote sustainability principles in their daily work, operating in line with Tesla Global Environmental, Health, Safety & Security (EHS&S) Policy and EMAS requirements, fostering a culture of continuous environmental improvement.