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# Staff Software Engineer & Team Lead, AC Charging

- **Company:** Tesla Motors
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $168,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Automation of Tests, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Linux on Embedded Systems, Firmware, Real-Time Operating Systems, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, State Machines, Information Technology, Bare Metal, Api Management, Hardware Debugging
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18691763/Staff-Software-Engineer-Team-Lead-Ac-Charging-California-Palo-Alto

## About the Role

* 5 years' experience building, debugging, and shipping software for embedded products
 * Experience leading technical teams, mentoring engineers, and driving strategic planning
 * Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
 * Proficiency in real-time embedded systems or embedded Linux, embedded systems languages (C, C++, Rust), and debugging hardware
 * Exposure to EV charging, safety standards, global/market compliance, multi-device site controls, or third-party protocol integration is a plus

## Description

Our products also face the challenges of any IoT system: installation, configuration, field diagnostics, and health monitoring. They need to be commissioned and registered, run autonomously, respond to commands, generate telemetry, and receive over-the-air updates. Our stack spans bare-metal and RTOS firmware, embedded Linux, local and cloud protocols, and validation tooling. You'll bring pragmatism, comfort diving into unfamiliar code and standards, willingness to collaborate across hardware, validation, compliance, product, and partner teams, ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment, and strong engineering leadership to the table.
What You'll Do

 * Design, architect, and deliver AC charging device software across real-time embedded and embedded Linux environments
 * Own and contribute to core product areas such as metering, comms stacks, safety-related behaviors, charging state machines, diagnostics, and validation
 * Collaborate with Product, Hardware, System Integration, Compliance, and Service to turn requirements (including regional compliance) into hardware and software designs, API contracts, tests, and shippable firmware
 * Define system architecture, automated testing strategy, and engineering practices that raise product reliability, developer productivity, and release confidence
 * Plan, execute, and delegate roadmap initiatives to meet product and business requirements on time with high quality, scalable software solutions