后端开发工程师，辅助驾驶 Sr. Backend Software Engineer, Autopilot

THE ROLE As a key member of the Autopilot AI Tooling & Teleoperation team, you will work on two critical areas:

Designing and building tooling systems that support the full machine learning lifecycle (data processing, annotation, visualization, training, and productionization pipelines);

Developing high-reliability, low-latency backend infrastructure to enable remote operation and assistance for Tesla’s global Robotaxi fleet and Optimus humanoid robots.

You will collaborate closely with world-class AI researchers, autonomy teams, firmware, and controls engineers to build an end-to-end technology stack — from data to cloud, and from model training to real-time teleoperation. Your work will directly impact the safety and continuous improvement of thousands of autonomous vehicles and robots.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale data processing pipelines handling diverse data types including autonomous driving images, sensor data, human annotations, and teleoperation video/telemetry/control signals.
• Build tools, metrics, dashboards, and automation platforms that accelerate the full cycle of model training, validation, and teleoperation workflows.
• Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend infrastructure to support low-latency remote operation of thousands of vehicles and robots worldwide, with strong emphasis on safety and reliability.
• Establish comprehensive observability systems (monitoring, metrics, and alerting) to achieve full visibility from edge devices to the cloud.
• Collaborate with AI researchers, frontend engineers, firmware, and autonomy teams to rapidly turn research ideas into production-grade features.
• Select and implement cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.), build automated testing frameworks, and enable safe continuous deployment.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in at least one backend/data engineering language (Python required; C++ or Go is a strong plus) with solid systems programming skills.
• Experience with large-scale data processing (Spark, Pandas, NumPy, etc.) and real-time or near real-time data pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes, Terraform, Linux systems, networking, and storage.
• Hands-on experience with databases and search systems (PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Experience with public cloud services (AWS EC2, S3, RDS, etc.).
• Strong foundation in distributed systems design with focus on security, scalability, and high performance.
• Knowledge of machine learning, computer vision, or neural networks is a plus.
• Experience building production-grade teleoperation or high-reliability real-time systems is highly preferred.

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