Field Safety Engineer Tesla Motors, Inc. paid holidays, flex time, 401(k) United States, Texas, Austin Oct 22, 2026

What to Expect

Robotaxi will rewrite the rules of mobility, help us drive the autonomous future. The Robotaxi engineering team is at the center of product design and operational excellence of autonomous vehicles. From the launch of Robotaxi on MY in 2025 to the revolutionary Cybercab product in operation, team Robotaxi is at the cutting edge of AV technology. Safety of our Autonomous Vehicles is the foundation of our product design and operational protocol. You will play a key role in ensuring the product can operate safely across a range of operational design domains while ensuring a culture of safety forward design and development is held. Tracking field collisions with a focus on pulling, assessing and summarizing vehicle information from CAN (Controller Area Network) logs, EDR (Event Data Recorder) data, video and other telemetry sources into a database for causation and later aggregate statistical analysis. What You'll Do

Manage applications to efficiently track product safety performance in the field, including but not limited to vehicle collision analysis

Contribute to interactions and development of safety protocols

Identify cause of critical safety events and drive mitigation process around product ticketed and operational concerns

Assess field incidents for compliance with regulatory crash reporting

Develop or contribute to critical safety protocol development for the business

Link product field performance back to engineering design, ensure field data is appropriately and automatically translated to appropriate stakeholders

Instill a safety culture throughout the product support and development space

Prepare and present business critical data to inform executive decision-making What You'll Bring

Bachelor's Degree in a technical field (Engineering, Technology, Software Development) or other equivalent experience

4+ years of experience in field engineering, crash incident investigation, crash root cause analysis or field safety development and execution

ACTAR or Accident / Collision Reconstruction Course Certification, Event Data Recorder (EDR) including Controller Area Network (CAN) logs analysis Certification is a plus.

Experience interacting and developing safety protocols

Knowledge of

ISO-26262, SAE J3016, SAE-ITC AVSC

documents, analyzing CRSS, CISS and FARS data, or other crash coding databases is a plus

Demonstrated ability to manage databases and multiple data streams

Ability to quickly learn new technologies and/or an aptitude for understanding automotive vehicle systems

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

Earned Wage Access:

Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels) Notify me of jobs like this