Tesla's New Jobs in Autopilot Team After Layoffs

TapTechNews May 27 (about 1-2 months ago), Tesla, after experiencing a large-scale layoff, recently advertised nearly 20 new jobs on its recruitment page for its Autopilot team, suggesting that the company's wave of layoffs may be coming to an end. The new jobs are all located in Palo Alto, California.

TapTechNews noted that from the job titles, most of the new members of the Autopilot team will be dedicated to the research and development of Tesla's FSD software. Here are some recruitment information for Tesla's Autopilot team:

Basic Model Research Engineer (autonomous driving)

Senior Software Engineer (SLAM, autonomous driving)

Front-end Software Engineer for AI Tools

Back-end Software Engineer for AI Tools

Full-stack Model Evaluation Software Engineer

Scenario Creation Simulation Software Engineer

AI Research Engineer (basic model, autonomous driving)

AI Research Engineer (generative model, autonomous driving)

Tesla also advertised a position for a Machine Learning Engineer (3D computer vision, autonomous driving), and the description of this position hinted at the next development direction of Tesla's FSD. Some of the responsibilities include:

Developing new formulations and architectures suitable for various computer vision tasks

Executing large-scale distributed training of deep neural networks to build a unified and consistent vector space for autonomous driving tasks (such as occupancy space, occupancy space flow, semantics, geometry, detection, drivable surface)

Designing metrics, tasks, and datasets for perception and autonomous driving

Deploying models on millions of Tesla vehicles on a large scale

Following strict and strong software engineering practices to rapidly and safely develop novel work