Quality Systems Engineer, Quality Management Systems

Tesla is seeking an engineer to develop, deploy, and iterate on SI-powered quality systems that operations teams use every shift. You'll translate on-the-floor pain into software requirements, build and ship the data, model, and UX changes to close the gap, and own adoption on-site. The role spans business process design, SI/agent capability development, data pipeline work, and change management, with quantifiable improvements to Tesla's quality systems as the yardstick.

- Translate business process needs into software design requirements with real context
- Proactively identify gaps between process and system across quality functions; propose tools that give visibility into bottlenecks, inconsistencies, and data gaps
- Translate site-specific gaps into either a configurable fix in an existing capability, a new tool / data source, or a process change the user owns
- Build the data pipelines, model / agent integrations, retrieval and grounding, eval harnesses, and user-facing surfaces
- Deploy SI-enabled quality capabilities end-to-end: spec → prototype → eval → stage → production → monitor → iterate
- Partner with the core platform team on functional and timeline requirements when work belongs in the platform rather than in a single deployment
- Prioritize multiple deployments across departments; provide clear status updates to stakeholders
- Implement existing best practices and develop new ones; feed them back into shared patterns so other sites can reuse them

- Degree in Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Minimum 3+ years in a quality or quality systems role, or in a Forward Deployed / Applied SI / Solutions Engineering role shipping to real end users
- Knowledge of quality system industry standards including ISO 9001, IATF 16949, and AIAG
- Manufacturing or operations fluency (MES, SCADA, CMMS, historian systems)
- Working proficiency in Python and SQL-able to design and run production data pipelines, author ETL into shared systems, and debug database query plans; experience with MySQL, Postgres, or similar warehouse / columnar systems, orchestration tools, and CI/CD
- Understanding of software and database design to work closely with a development team and translate business needs into software-able to write a schema and a data contract, not just a spec
- Comfort with modern SI / LLM application patterns: tool use, structured output, retrieval, prompts as code, evaluation harnesses, agent frameworks, standardized tool / model-context protocols, and cost / latency trade-offs. Can design evals that predict user outcomes
- Data visualization experience, Tableau preferred
- Can run a short shadowing session with a user and come back with prioritized, buildable improvements
- Detail-oriented team player, spots inconsistencies in data, process, and system behavior before users do, and collaborates well across diverse functional groups

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
- Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)
Expected Compensation $84,000 - $180,000/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.