What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Agentic Firmware Automation Engineer, Residential Charging position at Tesla Motors, Inc.?
The Residential & Robot Charging team owns the full stack of Tesla's home, multi-family, and humanoid-robot charging products. We're building agentic AI systems that close the loop between intelligent software and physical hardware- agents that don't just analyze logs, but flash firmware, power-cycle boards, probe test points, bisect regressions, and deliver PRs ready for engineer review.
This is the frontier where software intelligence meets hardware reality. Your systems will automate firmware test workflows, triage nightly failures, identify coverage gaps, and progressively expand toward AI-assisted feature development and pilot validation. You'll define how autonomous agents interact with embedded devices at scale.
What You'll Do
- Build autonomous agents that triage nightly regression failures, perform root cause analysis, and generate fix PRs for engineer review
- Design agentic systems that interact with physical hardware- flashing firmware, capturing logs, power-cycling devices, and validating fixes end-to-end
- Integrate AI tooling into build workflows so developers get intelligent assistance during iteration
- Develop agents that continuously analyze test coverage, identify gaps, and close the loop with new test cases
- Create infrastructure for agents to control hardware test stations (debug probes, power supplies, instrumentation)
- Build feedback loops that track agent accuracy and improve autonomous decision-making over time
- Implement guardrails and validation systems to ensure agent-generated changes are safe and correct
- Scale agentic workflows to broader firmware development and pilot validation
What You'll Bring
- 3 years shipping test automation, DevOps infrastructure, or embedded systems tooling
- Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems (LLM-based agents, tool use, multi-step reasoning)
- Strong Python skills; familiarity with C/C in embedded contexts
- Experience with hermetic build systems (Bazel, Buck2, Pants)
- Comfort with hardware debugging: JTAG/SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, test fixtures
- Familiarity with microcontrollers, RTOS (FreeRTOS preferred), and firmware workflows
- Experience with Git automation and GitHub API integration
- Track record of replacing manual workflows with reliable automation
- Buck2, ARM Cortex-M, Cortex-A, code coverage instrumentation (gcov/lcov), or MCP experience preferred
Compensation and 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
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.
Salary : $120,000 - $252,000