Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Robotaxi Pricing

What To Expect

As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Robotaxi Pricing, within Tesla's Digital Experience team, you will be instrumental in building and enhancing pricing systems for the evolving Robotaxi business. This core pricing team manages Tesla's comprehensive product catalog, configuration, and pricing components across all global markets and sales channels, covering products like vehicles, Megapack, Solar, Powerwall, service parts, and emerging services. This role offers a fast-paced, highly rewarding opportunity to directly contribute to Tesla's mission of accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and support applications and systems, specifically building pricing tools for Robotaxi ride services, vehicles, Megapack, energy products, and service parts.
• Design and manage complex pricing models and algorithms to implement systems that support dynamic and surge pricing, incorporating critical variables such as base costs, taxes, government fees, tolls, real-time market demand, regional variations, and location-specific factors.
• Develop innovative workflows that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic AI to significantly improve decision-making processes, automate planning, and adapt effectively to real-time operational constraints like market demand fluctuations or traffic conditions.
• Build robust data analytics pipelines to comprehensively analyze ride sessions, operational costs, and competitors' pricing strategies, informing the design of sophisticated recommendation systems for optimized pricing strategies.
• Write clean, maintainable, performant, and well-tested code, ensuring high quality and reliability.
• Write thorough unit tests and integration tests, collaborating closely with QA teams to coordinate timely regression testing for all new features.
• Proactively monitor live system metrics, respond promptly to alerts, and efficiently troubleshoot any production issues that arise.
• Investigate and thoroughly understand existing system technical functionality, proposing and implementing valuable technical improvements.
• Communicate changes in project estimates, dependencies, and potential blockers quickly and clearly with all affected stakeholders.
• Work hands-on with cutting-edge technologies such as React, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, MySQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Redis, GraphQL, Docker, and Kubernetes to build robust, scalable systems that can handle Tesla's global scale.

What You'll Bring

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, demonstrable exceptional skills in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of related practical experience in software engineering, with a proven track record in full stack development.
• Proficiency in JavaScript (ES5/6), HTML, CSS, and the React framework for building intuitive and highly responsive frontend interfaces.
• Extensive experience with microservices or service-oriented architecture.
• Expertise with various databases, including MySQL for structured data management and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch for efficient search, indexing, and analytics capabilities.
• Demonstrated good unit testing and integration testing practices.
• A flexible and motivated self-starter attitude with excellent communication skills, a positive outlook, and a strong desire to continuously improve efficiency and scalability.
• Proven experience writing high-quality code in programming languages like JavaScript, Python, or Go.
• Familiarity with AI integration, specifically including LLMs for tasks like generating pricing insights and agentic AI workflows for creating adaptive user experiences.
• Prior experience in the automotive, energy, or ride-hailing industries is preferred, demonstrating relevant domain 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 with options for $0 payroll deduction.
• Family-building, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both with options for 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 (with a 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 including 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.

Key skills/competency

• Full Stack Development
• Pricing Systems
• Dynamic Pricing
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Agentic AI
• Data Analytics
• React, JavaScript
• Python, Node.js
• MySQL, OpenSearch
• Kubernetes, Docker