Software Data Platforms Engineering Internship (Winter/Spring 2024)
What to Expect
Disclaimer: This position is expected to start around January or February 2024 and continue through the entire Spring term (i.e. through May 2024) or into Spring/Summer 2024 if available. We ask for a minimum of 12 weeks, full-time and in-person, for most internships. Please consider before submitting an application.
International Students: If your work authorization is through CPT, please consult your school before applying. You must be able to work 40 hours per week. Many students will be limited to part-time depending on their academic standing.
Internship Program at Tesla
The Internship Recruiting Team is driven by the passion to recognize emerging talent. Our year around program places the best students in positions that they will grow both technically and personally through their experience working closely with their Manager, Mentor, and team. We provide an experience that allows for the intern to experience life at Tesla by given them projects that are critical to their team’s success.
Locations
- Palo Alto, CA
The Team
Data is deeply embedded in the product and engineering culture at Tesla. We rely on data – lots of it – to improve autopilot, to optimize hardware designs, to proactively detect faults, and to optimize load on the electrical grid. We collect data from each of our cars, superchargers, and stationary batteries and use it to make these products better and our customers safer.
We're a small but fast-growing team which is building and operating the big data platform for the company. We collect massive amounts of IoT data, provide storage, access, and high-volume processing. Our stack is built on top of open-source technologies, including Spark, Kafka, and related.
We're looking for a talented engineering intern to help deliver new and improved big data services and infrastructure. Your work will affect many hundreds of Tesla engineers daily, as well as improving the functionality of our cars, chargers, and batteries worldwide.
What You’ll Do
- Employ and improve industry-leading, scalable, distributed open-source technologies.
- Build back-end systems from scratch that are capable of handling trillion+ events daily.
- Facilitate operation of highly available distributed systems at scale and across multiple locations.
- Facilitate others in deploying, operating, and extending upon your clean, tested code.
- Help define a platform that is highly leveraged, multi-tenant, and self-serviced.
- Work with data engineers and data scientists to drive efficient solutions from the platform.
- Help define the data story and enable data-driven solutions at Tesla, both technically and culturally.
What You’ll Bring
- Currently working towards a BS, MS, or advanced degree in a relevant engineering program such as Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
- Proficiency in Java or Python.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
- DevOps/SRE abilities a huge plus.
- Strong programming fundamentals, particularly in data structures, concurrency, and Java.
- Understanding of a complex distributed system, such as Kafka, Spark, HBase or ElasticSearch is a plus.
- Previous experience building and optimizing highly available, scalable, distributed back-end services also a plus.
Compensation and Benefits
Benefits
As a full-time Tesla Intern, you will be eligible for:
- Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
- Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans. Both have an option with a $0 payroll contribution
- Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Medical Plan with HSA
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- LGBTQ+ care concierge services
- 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
- Company Paid Basic Life, AD&D, and short-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick time after 90 days of employment and Paid Holidays
- Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
- Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program