What are the responsibilities and job description for the Internship, Mobile Application Software Engineer, Energy Engineering (Fall 2026) position at Tesla Motors, Inc.?
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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 provide an experience that allows the intern to experience life at Tesla by including them in projects that are critical to their team's success.
Join our team as Mobile App Software Engineer intern, where you'll build user experiences that power the ecosystem of Tesla Solar, Powerwall, and Vehicle products. In this internship, you will work on real features that ship to millions of Tesla customers-your code will directly impact Tesla's mission of sustainable energy. While you're building, you'll be mentored by senior engineers who have shipped major products. And you'll learn from cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams.
The Tesla Energy Mobile App team builds the core app experience for Solar, Powerwall, and Charging. Our goal is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy by building friendly, understandable, and powerful user interfaces that anybody can understand and use.
Some projects we shipped in 2024 & 2025, as examples of what our team (and past interns) have helped build:
- Tesla Recharged, a year-in-review feature (like Spotify Wrapped) that tells the story of a homeowner's energy usage, sustainability, and savings
- A Puerto Rico Virtual Power Plant dashboard (https://www.tesla.com/puerto-rico) that aggregates realtime data from the Powerwall fleet on the island to tell the story of how Powerwall prevents the island from facing outages almost daily. Virtual Power Plants take distributed resources, like home batteries, and aggregate them to work as one large power plant to increase the sustainability of the grid and reduce grid costs
- Storm Watch automatically charges Powerwall in case of inclement weather which is the leading cause of grid outages, and we recently give owners the ability to manually charge their batteries using udpates to Storm Watch. You can see some of our team talk about Storm Watch here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1QQWvE18kU
Location:Palo Alto, CA
What You'll Do
Build new functionality in the Tesla App using TypeScript and React Native on the front end and Go on the back end
Work embedded within the Energy Product, Design, and Engineering teams while crafting new features as we transform the future of energy
What You'll Bring
Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a similar degree program with an emphasis in Mobile App development, or a related field
Excellent communication skills, an ability to learn quickly, and a passion for moving fast and building great things with great visual polish
High standards for code quality, maintainability, and performance
Passion for Tesla's mission of accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy
Fluency in a mobile app or reactive web framework required, with preference for React Native and TypeScript
Compensation and Benefits
As a full-time Tesla Intern, you will be eligible for:
- Medical plans > 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)
- 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
- Company Paid Basic Life, AD&D, and short-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary 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
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
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.
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
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