Internship, Software Engineer, AI Simulation (Summer 2025)
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This position is expected to start around May/June and continue through Aug/Sep. We ask for a minimum of 12 weeks, full-time and on-site, for most internships.
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Internship Program at Tesla
The Internship Recruiting Team is driven by the passion to recognize and develop emerging talent. Our year-round program places the best students in positions where they will grow technically, professionally, and personally through their experience working closely with their Manager, Mentor, and team.We are dedicated to providing an experience that allows the intern to experience life at Tesla by including them in projects that are critical to their team’s success.
About the Team
Full Self-Driving (FSD) is of critical importance to Tesla's mission. It is safer, makes driving more enjoyable, and will ultimately deliver on the promise of self-driving cars. As a member of Tesla's Autopilot Simulation team, you will be in a unique position to accelerate the pace at which Autopilot improves over time.The main ways in which the simulation team realizes this is through building tools that enable Autopilot software developers to perform virtual test drives instead of real ones, testing all FSD software releases for regressive behavior and generating synthetic data sets for neural network training.
As a Software Engineer on the Simulation team, you will contribute to the development of the simulation by building models and simulation tools that are capable to virtually prototype the system for fast, iterative development and robust validation.Your responsibilities will be split between feature creation and tool development to allow for quicker workflow across the team.
- Contribute to the development of a modular, scalable simulation platform
- Work with all members of the Autopilot team to understand the simulation requirements and develop tools to meet those needs
- Keep up to date with the latest research/technologies in the fields of autonomous driving and simulation
- Contribute to team member development through leadership
- Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant field of study with a graduation date between 2025 -2026
- Must be able to relocate and work on site in Palo Alto, CA
- Excellent software development skills in C++ and Python
- Experience developing and delivering applications/simulation tools in an engineering application
- Experience of hardware-in-the-loop simulation
- Experience with raytracing, surface appearance models
- Strong mathematical skills including linear algebra and numerical methods
- Comfortable with Linux & Git
- Experience in modeling one or more of: vehicle dynamics, sensors, control systems, stochastic systems