Technical Program Manager — Engineering Software Tools

What to Expect

Tesla's electric motors depend on how well we design, simulate, and iterate – and increasingly on the software tools that make that possible. This role owns how that software gets built: scope, timelines, quality bar, and accountability.

You will not be a scheduler or a status-report collector. You will be a technical owner who has written code and designed architecture, who knows where software projects actually stall, and who drives a team of engineering-tools developers to ship exceptional work on a predictable cadence. You will define what "done" and "excellent" mean here, and hold the line on both.

The role is based in Greece, in a team whose work has global impact on Tesla's motors.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end delivery of the engineering tools portfolio: data pipelines, visualization and comparison tools, optimization workflows, and AI agentic workflows used across the motor organization
• Drive daily execution – scope, timelines, dependencies, and blockers – with direct, hands-on follow-up rather than second-hand status
• Establish single-threaded ownership for every active workstream, so each project has one clearly accountable engineer
• Define and enforce the quality bar: architecture reviews, code review standards, testing, documentation, and performance expectations for high-volume engineering datasets
• Break ambiguous engineering needs into well-scoped, estimable work, and push back on scope that does not earn its cost
• Identify and remove bottlenecks, both technical (infrastructure, data access, tooling, CI) and organizational (unclear requirements, cross-team dependencies)
• Partner with motor designers, test engineers, and software developers to translate engineering needs into a prioritized, realistic roadmap
• Drive adoption of AI coding agents across the team to increase throughput – while insisting that engineers review and own every choice those agents make
• Report clearly to leadership on progress, risk, and trade-offs, with no surprise

What You'll Bring

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• 5 years in software development, with hands-on experience writing production code and owning architecture decisions
• 2 years leading or driving delivery of software projects (technical program management, tech lead, or engineering management)
• Strong working knowledge of Python and/or MATLAB – enough to read the team's code, review a design, and judge an estimate
• Experience with SQL databases and large-scale datasets
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents (e.g., Claude, Cursor, or similar) in real projects, and the judgment to critically review and own every choice they make
• Demonstrated track record of raising a team's quality bar and delivery predictability
• Clear, concise communicator who is comfortable holding people accountable without bureaucracy
• Comfortable working in a multinational, cross-functional team
• Fluent written and spoken English

Nice to have

• Experience building LLM-based tools or agents (e.g., tool calling, agent frameworks, MCP)

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.