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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Technical Program Manager, Industrial DPL - **Company:** Tesla, Inc. - **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $96,800.0 - $217,200.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Confluence, JIRA, Spreadsheets, Data Mining, Firmware, SQL Databases - **Published:** May 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=67d4918559425870 ## About the Role * Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience * Minimum 5 years of experience in one or more of the following environments - manufacturing, root cause analysis, product design and development, testing and validation, product quality, or technical project management; 8 years preferred * Ability to drive collaboration across functions and levels within the business in fast-paced organizations * Hands-on personality - the job may require one's hands to get dirty * SQL/Spreadsheet - data mining from various sources to come up with campaign plans * Presentation skills to different levels of stakeholders and work tracking with Jira/confluence * Up to 15% travel may be required * PMP or AGILE certification is an asset ## Description The Service Engineering Team is responsible for the overall health and performance of all Energy Products deployed in the field. The 'Deployed Product Lifecycle (DPL) Programs' deploy field campaigns to remediate field issues, manage the design and development of solutions that include extant and custom parts. As a TPM in this team, you will be responsible for timely responses to factory, field and design escalations - facilitating containments and corrective actions, tracking the development and lifecycle of field tools, continuously clarifying, and improving the related processes. What You'll Do * Manage the campaign workflow for several industrial products simultaneously - including driving the short-term actions, root causes, and longer-term design solutions by working cross-functionally with hardware and Firmware engineering teams to improve fleet health * Develop workflows to streamline the flow of service needs back to design + manufacturing * Own and drive service requirements for assigned Industrial Programs and consolidate service feedback for upcoming product changes, and manage downstream change actions * Improve field service procedure cost and speed while reporting on metrics like cost, risk, and timeline * Identify gaps in product validation relative to field application that resulted in the field retrofit and feedback in to test/validation improvements * Track the development of service tools needed to deploy field campaigns and other activities ## Related Videos - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Playing Pong on a shoulder press machine](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100140-playing-pong-on-a-shoulder-press-machine) - [42 x 2 Canvases Later: Two Years, Two Minds, Many Lessons](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1458-42-x-2-canvases-later-two-years-two-minds-many-lessons) - [Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/251-remote-driving-on-plant-grounds-with-state-of-the-art-cloud-technologies) - [A Founder's Journey : From Startup Chaos to Purposeful Growth](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1926-a-founder-s-journey-from-startup-chaos-to-purposeful-growth) - [Collaboration Quantified: Lessons from Open Source Developer Networks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1422-collaboration-quantified-lessons-from-open-source-developer-networks) ## Related Articles - [How software is steering vehicle technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/515-how-software-is-steering-vehicle-technology) - [From developer to manager – what does it take to become an engineering manager?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/42-from-developer-to-manager-what-does-it-take-to-become-an-engineering-manager) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [Should Tech Managers Be Developers First? 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