(Posting from my phone after the event). If you are excited about this and want to work on it then please email me at tcasebolt@teslamotors.com. We are very excited about the technology and future!
Our Stationary Storage product offers battery storage systems that can attach to power grids, commercial areas, or residential systems. As the need for and the available sources of energy increases, efficient and smart energy storage is quickly becoming the only solution for meeting these demands.
We are have several open positions for firmware and embedded software within this team. Finding the right person for the group and then defining a role for their skillset is more important to us than listing several generic job descriptions. If you are passionate about this field and technology, feel free to contact us.
Below are some specific skills and experience that we know we will need (we do not expect all of these in the same candidate). I've clustered them into two groups of skills, but we'd be happy to have a candidate with a blend from both clusters.
Embedded Firmware
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- Embedded C
- Realtime operating systems and applications
- Low-level embedded experience with linkers, bootloaders, drivers
- CAN bus
- Embedded TCP/IP (driver level)
- Experience with power electronics
- Familiarity with electronics, schematics, PCBs (can use an oscope)
- Design for safety critical systems
- State machines
Embedded Linux
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- Embedded linux application deployment
- Protocol buffers
- Golang
- Zigbee
- Industrial or utility SCADA protocols like modbus and DNP3
- Experience with power electronics or the energy industry
- General networking: ppp, ssh, vpn, iptables
- Code generation + DSLs
You should be interested in, excited about, or experienced with the Energy Industry to apply for this position. Our team is a small part of the company but we are working on becoming a larger part. These positions will have a significant impact on the design and behaviors of our next generation Stationary Storage products.
At this time, we are not looking for interns or people working remotely.
Please email tcasebolt@teslamotors.com for more information.
If you are interested in other positions at the Tesla (for example working on vehicles), it is most helpful if you have a position in mind that you are interested in and I can forward your info on to the right people. For other positions, please see http://www.teslamotors.com/careers
Tesla Motors | Stationary Storage group | Full time | Palo Alto, CA
The Stationary Storage team at Tesla Motors is growing and we’re looking for smart and versatile developers to add to the team. Our current team is very small and we’re looking for a hand-on, generalist who will get things done. You will work on a variety of subsystems, some are existing codebases (with other users and developers) that need modification for our application, while other projects are new and specific to our group. The team is small and you will be able to shape the direction of the product and a large amount of ownership of the firmware and software that is specific to this application ranging from architecture to implementation to testing.
Here are some of the projects that we see coming up soon:
* Embedded C on a microcontroller with an RTOS
* Communication over CAN, Ethernet, zigbee, and GSM networks
* Machine learning for analyzing and modeling energy systems (We’ve been using Matlab and Go, but would love to explore R, Hadoop, and AWS)
* Design and evaluation of algorithms for energy and power markets (think Quant algos but controlling real hardware and moving energy instead of money).
* Designing a robust system to control distributed resources
* UI for customer facing control and data viewing
* Development of parsers/compilers/code-transformers/DSLs for templating and code generation.
While this isn’t the typical HN job, we could see many of these projects appealing to people who are excited about at least several of:
* Green Energy
* Physical hardware
* Parsers/Compilers/DSLs
* Machine learning/algos for people who don’t want to work in Finance
* A variety of languages and technology (in the last 6 months I have used C, Python, Perl, Go, Matlab/Octave, Tcl, VB, and in my small circle people are using Ruby, Java, php, R and probably others.)
We are a small team working on energy and designing physical hardware (which you will control!), so our internal conversions are more likely to touch on “watt-hours” and “tooling costs” than “closures” and “apps”.
We would love to see (but we have some positions that don't require these):
* Comfortable with embedded C
* Degree in Engineering or experience with Energy
If you are interested in this job please email tcasebolt@teslamotors.com
Oh God... I always said that the only companies I'd give up my startup ambitions for was SpaceX and Tesla. I just returned to Toronto from San Jose and I saw your plant from the 880. Absolutely amazing looking.
Can you tell us more about what the stationary storage team works on? From the name, it sounds to be the systems that the user uses when they store the vehicle at the end of their trip?
Stationary Storage is basically energy storage (in non-moving context) and is commonly tied to the electrical grid. There are various technologies used for stationary storage like compressed air, flywheels, pumped hydro, and batteries. I'll let you guess which one we work with.
I can't talk specifically about any of our projects, but a few of them have had an article or two if you dig around. Sorry for the secrecy, but it's very exciting and there's a lot going on. If you're still interested in working on our team, I can tell you more project and technical details when you get in touch.
Tarmigan, I have a friend who really MUST work at Tesla. He was a staff eng at Sun, National Semi, Cobalt, etc.
He is a master in solar power generation monitoring (designs custom embedded BACNET boxes, develops standards based protocols for energy monitoring, fosters the creation of industry working groups around said protocols/ideas, etc) among other things wrote the first book on SAMBA... blah blah blah.
This guy will solve (if he hasnt already) this for you:
>* Design and evaluation of algorithms for energy and power markets
>* Designing a robust system to control distributed resources
YOU NEED TO HIRE THIS GUY.
How can I connect you both?
Please reply to my email addy in my profile.
As a finders fee, I humbly ask to escort Elon Musk's ashes to Mars.
If you are asking in general, there are a bunch of internships in a bunch of different groups listed on the careers website.
Our group would probably also be open in to an intern, but I haven't given it much thought yet. Get in touch with me if you are interested in Stationary Storage and the work described in my original post.
Tesla Motors | Stationary Storage group | Full time | Palo Alto, CA
The Stationary Storage team at Tesla Motors is growing and we’re looking for a smart and versatile developer to add to the team. Our current team is very small and we’re looking for a hand-on, generalist who will get things done. You will work on a variety of subsystems, some are existing codebases (with other users and developers) that need modification for our application, while other projects are new and specific to our group. The team is small and you will be able to shape the direction of the product and a large amount of ownership of the firmware and software that is specific to this application ranging from architecture to implementation to testing.
Here are some of the projects that we see coming up soon:
* Embedded C on a microcontroller with an RTOS
* Communication over CAN, Ethernet, zigbee, and GSM networks
* Machine learning for analyzing and modeling energy systems (We’ve been using Matlab and Go, but would love to explore R, Hadoop, and AWS)
* Design and evaluation of algorithms for energy and power markets (think Quant algos but controlling real hardware and moving energy instead of money).
* Designing a robust system to control distributed resources
* UI for customer facing control and data viewing
* Development of parsers/compilers/code-transformers/DSLs for templating and code generation.
While this isn’t the typical HN job, we could see many of these projects appealing to people who are excited about at least several of:
* Green Energy
* Physical hardware
* Parsers/Compilers/DSLs
* Machine learning/algos for people who don’t want to work in Finance
* A variety of languages and technology (in the last 6 months I have used C, Python, Perl, Go, Matlab/Octave, Tcl, VB, and in my small circle people are using Ruby, Java, php, R and probably others.)
We are a small team working on energy and designing physical hardware (which you will control!), so our internal conversions have as much to do with “watt-hours” and “tooling costs” more than “closures” and “apps”.
Requirements (other things we’re more flexible about):
* Comfortable with embedded C
* Degree in Engineering or experience with Energy
If you are interested in this job please email kfine@teslamotors.com
