Software Engineer, Reinforcement Learning, Tesla Bot

$140,000 - $360,000/Yr

Tesla - Palo Alto, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

Palo Alto, CA

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

Tesla is on a path to build humanoid robots at scale to automate repetitive and boring tasks. The goal of our reinforcement learning team is to build and demonstrate a general robot learning system that can leverage AI to perform complex physical tasks, ranging from full body locomotion, precise manipulation, and more. Our reinforcement and imitation learning engineers are responsible for end-to-end robotic learning and own this stack from inception to deployment. Most importantly, you will see your work repeatedly shipped to and utilized by thousands of humanoid robots in real world applications. As a Software Engineer specializing in Reinforcement Learning, you will develop end-to-end robotic learning systems using either reinforcement or imitation learning techniques. This involves reinforcing the correct set of actions, rewarding correct behavior, and negating incorrect behavior through real-time action/reward feedback loops. You will be tasked with performing a large number of instructions and generalizing new tasks with different objects and environments. Additionally, you will learn to perform dexterous tasks using high degree of freedom hands and develop different robot policies to solve language-conditioned tasks from vision. Your work will culminate in shipping production quality, safety-critical software that will be integral to the functionality of Tesla's humanoid robots.

Responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end robotic learning with either reinforcement or imitation learning
• Reinforce correct set of actions, reward correct behavior, and negate incorrect behavior with real-time action/reward feedback loops
• Perform a large number of instructions and generalize new tasks with different objects and environments
• Learn to perform dexterous tasks using high degree of freedom hands
• Learn different robot policies to solve language-conditioned tasks from vision
• Ship production quality, safety-critical software

Requirements

• Experience in end-to-end robotic learning, with either imitation or reinforcement learning
• Experience writing production-level Python (including Numpy and Pytorch)
• Experience with distributed deep learning systems
• Exposure to robot learning through tactile and/or vision-based sensors is a plus
• Proven track record of training and deploying real world neural networks

Benefits

• Aetna PPO and HSA plans with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental and vision plans with $0 paycheck contribution options
• Company Paid HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• LGBTQ+ care concierge services
• 401(k) with employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plans
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits including critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program