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# Software Engineer, Firmware Platforms, Vehicle Software

- **Company:** Tesla Motors
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Algorithm Design, Application Testing, Assembly Language, Automation of Tests, Static Program Analysis, Program Optimization, Software Debugging, Embedded Software, Firmware, Fuzz Testing, Software Architecture, Real-Time Operating Systems, Software Engineering, System Software, Toolchain, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Software Verification
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88458542/1

## About the Role

* Experience in embedded development in robotics, real-time controls, or system software
 * Proficiency in C
 * Fluent in software fundamentals including software design for maintainability
 * Experience with embedded microprocessor toolchains and debuggers
 * Controls software and algorithm development
 * Test-driven development and familiarity with developer-driven automated testing
 * Ability to collaborate and communicate complex technical concepts
 * Understanding of physics and basic electronics principles, preferred
 * Experience with at least one assembly language, preferred
 * Familiarity with static analysis, fuzzing, or other advanced testing/verification tools, preferred

## Description

As a member of the Firmware Platforms team, you will deliver high-quality embedded code on the processors at the heart of Tesla's heart of current and future Tesla products-next-generation vehicles, Cybercab robotaxis, Optimus robots, and energy devices. You will take on the hardest embedded problems: bringing up new microcontrollers, low-level debugging and diagnostics, applied cryptography, real-time operating systems, and more. At Tesla, you will help build and maintain the core infrastructure that enables Over-The-Air updates across these platforms, and you will have a direct hand in shipping the firmware that makes unsupervised autonomy real.
What You'll Do

 * Deliver high-quality C code in a real-time embedded environment
 * Specify, design, and implement new functionality for embedded subsystems
 * Design the software architecture and firmware implementation through integration, test, and high-volume manufacturing
 * Hands-on hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization
 * Make performance and optimization trade-offs to meet product requirements


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