What to Expect

Consider before submitting an application: 

This position is expected to start around January 2025 and continue through the entire Spring/Winter term (i.e through April 2025) or into Summer 2025 if available. We ask for a minimum of 12 weeks, full-time (40 hours/week) and on-site, for most internships.

International Students: If your work authorization is through CPT, please consult your school before applying. You must be able to work 40 hours per week. Many students will be limited to part-time during the academic year.

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 are dedicated to providing an experience that allows the intern to experience life at Tesla by including them in projects that are critical to their team’s success. 

Multiple Locations Possible: Fremont, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Austin, TX

What You’ll Do
Your application for the Vehicle Hardware Engineering – Electrical/Computer Engineering Internship will be considered across all opportunities for the teams listed below:
The Autopilot Hardware team is responsible for designing the Controllers that deliver the autonomous driving capability of Tesla vehicles. This team designs complex, high-speed boards that deliver computing performance while meeting efficiency, cost, reliability and safety goals
The Display team works on LCD/OLED display electronic system  both at the component and system level.  This team manages all activities necessary to deliver displays project into vehicles from initial concept to production
The Low Voltage Architecture and Circuitry team designs the “nervous system” for Tesla products including all vehicles, Robot, Dojo and future projects. We are involved from beginning to end of the design cycle. This includes energy management, functional safety analysis, defining communication layouts and power flow, harness partitioning and cost studies, trace and wire sizing considering EMI compliance, all the way to validation, de-bugging, and production ramp
The Low Voltage Hardware team designs the electrical “nervous system” of Tesla products. Our circuit boards control hundreds of devices (motors, sensors, LEDs, etc) across all electrical systems (seats, doors, HVAC, powertrain, safety, chassis, lighting, etc) in Tesla vehicles & robots
The Electronic Systems Design and Integration team design and validate low voltage electronics systems of new vehicle programs. This team is responsible for ensuring product functions are successfully achieved by the integrated subsystems as they interact in the context of the whole vehicle
The Low Voltage Electronics Automation & Test team designs, builds, and manufactures testers that are essential to the production of all of Tesla’s low voltage components. This team focuses on the software, data engineering, and IT infrastructure side of this team
The Low Voltage Test team specializing in ICT. ICT focus on developing test software for all Tesla-designed circuit boards for Tesla vehicles
The Electronic Systems Infotainment team design, simulate, implement, and debug systems and circuits used in Tesla vehicles and related HWs. This team experiments with and develop novel solutions to the myriad of complex electrical problems in Infotainment systems
The Sensing team is responsible for the hardware that embodies the “senses” of Tesla vehicles. They architect the ADAS sensor product installed on all vehicles, Develop DSP/Algorithms, and ensure sensor performance is successfully achieved when integrated with other subsystems in the vehicle. Connectivity is an important part of all Tesla cars, further enhancing the driving experience by providing access to features that require wireless data usage. We apply first-principles for the design, integration, test, and production development
What You’ll Bring
Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field 
Experience with analog and digital circuit design and PCBA
Experience with PCB component selection 
Exceptional organization and communication skills (both written and verbal) 
Experience in MATLAB, Python, C/C++ or equivalent tools for modeling and analysis 
Experience on using test and measurement equipment like oscilloscopes, signal generators, arbitrary waveform generators, VNA, etc

PALO ALTO, California

Intern/Apprentice