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# Software Security Engineer, Energy Products Software

- **Company:** Tesla, Inc.
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $160,000 - $276,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing Security, Information Systems Security Architecture Professional, Software Engineering, System Programming, Rust (Programming Language), Large Language Models, Software Security, Golang
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=73bb5eefa168bef2

## About the Role

* Strong experience in one or more security domains, such as application and cloud security
 * Proficient in software development, auditing code and features
 * Proficient in at least one systems programming language, such as Rust, C++, Java, Go, etc.
 * Experience in secure architecture design
 * Experience using LLMs and agentic tooling to solve practical security problems
 * Strong investigative and analytical problem-solving skills
 * Excellent communication skills

## Description

* Audit source code for security vulnerabilities, track remediation efforts, and ensure timely resolution of vulnerabilities
 * Develop tooling to help spot known security exposures, including fuzzing, sanitizers, model checking, and supply-chain validation
 * Develop and maintain agentic security tools to scale code auditing, vulnerability discovery, and remediation
 * Participate in security reviews, threat modeling, risk analysis, and architecture design
 * Experience using LLM models and agentic tooling to solve practical security problems
 * Lead security initiatives, work across teams to identify, implement and advance security at Tesla
 * Maintain the values of the team which include engineering excellence, curiosity, a bias for action, self-awareness, inclusivity, and vulnerability