Staff Frontend Engineer, Vehicle UI – Hawthorne, California

Tesla

What to Expect

The Tesla Design team is responsible for the user interface of all vehicles, energy products, and apps. As a Frontend Engineer on the Design, you will work closely with both the Design and Engineering team to bring design concepts to life in all of our products. You will develop UI components that will be reused through the entire UI ecosystem and help shape the future of Tesla’s user interfaces. You will help develop new features in a variety of exciting areas of our UI including Autopilot, navigation, entertainment, games and more. 

The future of cars and sustainable energy can be whatever we want it to be. We arel ooking for someone to help us shape that future – someone with passion, dedication, and the drive to make Tesla’s products of today and tomorrow great. 

What You’ll Do
Apply knowledge of UI design and software engineering to develop new user interfaces and interaction models in HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React and Svelte
Create and make decisions that implement a design language consistent throughout the Tesla UI platform (in-car, mobile, etc.)
Act as bridge between design and development to ensure the visual and interaction quality of the product
Analyze and interpret recommendations from other business groups in order to prioritize functions and develop a project roadmap with project managers
Collaborate with UX/UI designers, software engineers, and product managers to design and implement features that improve the user experience  
Create and make decisions that implement a design language consistent throughout the Tesla UI platform (in-car, mobile, etc.)   
Optimize web applications for maximum speed and scalability  
What You’ll Bring
Deep experience in interaction prototyping for different form factors and interfaces  
Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks, such as JavaScript/HTML/CSS, WebGL (Three.JS), React, Svelte or UIML 
Expert knowledge of component-based frameworks like SvelteJS, ReactJS, AngularJS, or similar 
Experience shipping products to millions of users 
Experience building foundational layout and typographic systems to be used across the team 
Experience developing for real-time 3D with ThreeJS or game engines like Godot, Unity and Unreal Engine is a bonus

Hawthorne, California

Full time

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