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Mobile App Build Engineer, Vehicle Software

Tesla
Palo Alto, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/6/2026
What To Expect
Tesla’s continued success depends on engineers being able to develop, debug, and deploy software quickly. Our mobile app build, deployment and testing infrastructure directly impacts our Vehicle, Energy, and Autopilot engineers. You'll be joining a small team that works on all components of the mobile app including Robotaxi, Vehicle, Energy and Optimus.

This unique position exposes one to a wide array of interesting technical challenges and enables one to defend practices like code hygiene, reuse, and maintainability, while helping developers across all organizations within Tesla ship awesome new mobile app features. You will work on developer experience, continuous integration, build pipeline optimization, App Store and Google Play integration, and infrastructure to help develop, test, deploy and iterate more rapidly.

What You'll Do

  • Make decisions on the real-world products delivered to customers
  • You will work on building a distributed compute system, running code on bare metal & cloud servers
  • Your focus will be on making code more efficient to compile and run, optimizing resources across the build machines, and speeding up the compute workloads we face
  • Increase joy for Tesla customers with faster and more reliable app updates


  • What You'll Bring

  • Excellent knowledge of any modern programming language (Swift, Kotlin, Java, Objective-C, Golang, C , Python, Rust, Ruby, etc.)
  • iOS and Android build tools experience
  • Strong Linux or Mac OS knowledge


  • Benefits
    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


  • Expected Compensation

    $111,200 - $433,680/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.

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    Salary : $111,200 - $433,680

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