About this role
Service Tooling runs many hardware programs at once — vehicle launches, Semi, Optimus, automation — with a small engineering group. The Technical Project Engineer keeps those programs real: suppliers, dates, releases, and the status leadership uses. You need enough technical judgment to see when a date is not true.
- Coordinate across programs: what is in flight, what is blocked, and what has to land for a launch
- Drive vendor and PO work — quotes, samples, delivery — without waiting to be chased
- Keep a live picture of risk and progress the team will actually use. Do not rebuild status the night before a recap
- Work with mechanical, electrical, and field engineers so the plan matches the hardware, not a slide
- Put finished tools through the field-release path (documentation, catalog, procurement) when they are ready
- Be someone the team and partner orgs can check with on program status
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience on technical hardware programs
- 3+ years coordinating engineering projects that include design, suppliers, and a field or factory customer
- You have closed vendor work from PO through delivery, not only tracked it on a list
- Ability to provide clear status updates in writing, such as telllng a director what is late and why in a short note
- Enough CAD and drawing literacy to follow the design even if you are not the designer
- First-principles on schedules. You will push back when a plan assumes something that is not true
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
- Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
- Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
- Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), 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
- Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
- Tesla Babies program
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
Expected Compensation $112,000 - $217,200/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits
Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.