Staff Product Engineer, Generative AI

The Infrastructure Software team at Tesla drives technological excellence and innovation. This team builds an internal platform for delivering AI agents to employees across the company, available on the web, as a desktop application, inside chat clients, and through developer tooling, along with the frameworks other Tesla teams use to build and operate agents of their own. You will decide what gets built, why it matters, and what “good” means for it, then work alongside engineering to see it through. That means owning direction for a set of product surfaces, not executing a backlog someone else wrote. As part of this team, you will o wn the product direction for user-facing surfaces of the platform and the developerfacing frameworks built on top of it. You’ll also d efine what quality means for AI agents and put the measurement in place to prove it: evaluation methodology, feedback capture, and review workflows. The role will entail translating messy, competing requests from teams across the company into a roadmap with a defensible order and s et the bar for how AI capabilities are exposed to employees safely, with access scoped to what each user is already permitted to see. You’ll e stablish the analytics that explain adoption, agent quality, and cost, and use them to steer the roadmap. What You’ll Do

• Partner with stakeholders across IT, manufacturing, engineering, and business operations to understand their processes, then convert that understanding into a product plan rather than a feature request queue

• Write the specifications, acceptance criteria, and success metrics that engineering builds against, at a level of precision that leaves no ambiguity about what is being shipped

• Sit in design and architecture reviews as a technical peer: read the contracts, question the tradeoffs, and understand the cost of what you are asking for

• Define the evaluation strategy for AI agents, covering what gets tested, how responses are scored, what regression looks like, and when an agent is ready for production

• Drive onboarding and adoption for teams building on the platform, and turn what you learn from them into product improvements to the frameworks and documentation

• Own the metric for every feature before it ships, and follow up after launch to say plainly whether it worked

• Make prioritization calls in the open, including the decision not to build something, and document the reasoning so it holds up months later

• Influence direction across teams without direct authority, and mentor engineers and less experienced product partners on product thinking

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• At least 8 years of professional experience in software, including a hands-on engineering background earlier in your career

• Demonstrated product ownership at scope, meaning products or platforms you defined, shipped, measured, and course-corrected, with evidence of the judgment behind the calls

• Genuine technical fluency: comfortable reading code, reviewing API and service contracts, and reasoning about distributed systems and their failure modes well enough to hold your own with senior engineers

• Experience building software for users you can talk to directly, and the discipline to actually talk to them

• Excellent written communication, much of the coordination and decision-making on this team happens in documents

• Track record of driving cross-functional work to completion in an environment with shifting priorities

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans > 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 Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible 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 (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly 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