Tesla's various mechanical engineers are tasked with developing various parts of the company's vehicles, such as the power transmission, the components that make up the automobile's chassis, and more. With bonuses, the gig can pay up to $99,249 according to Glassdoor's data.
QA engineers, or quality assurance engineers, usually monitor every phase of software development to make sure it adheres to the company's standards. According to Glassdoor, Tesla's salary for this position is 19% above the national average for QA engineers.
Tesla usually seeks design engineers that specialize in certain fields. Right now, the company is seeking mechanical design engineers for areas such as propulsion, stationary storage-wire harness designs, chassis systems, and more.
Electrical engineers at Tesla work closely with the company's mechanical engineers and firmware engineers. The electrical engineer would be working with systems that deliver high electrical currents, which is what enables vehicles made by Tesla to "go faster and charge faster than any other car ever developed in the mass market," as the company says in its job description.
Tesla offers dozens upon dozens of different types of engineering jobs that span across different departments. There are currently 194 engineering jobs open at the company.
Naturally, the salaries start to get a little higher when you move into senior engineering roles. One senior engineering job listing for Tesla requires 10 years of experience.
Tesla clearly values its designers — not only is the base salary for a senior design engineer among the highest paying jobs at the company, but with bonuses these employees can make up to $271,179 according to Glassdoor.
The senior project engineer reports to whoever the senior manager is for that current department, according to an old Tesla job listing. The senior project manager job post from about a year ago was for the Material Flow Engineering team, and requires a minimum of eight years work experience.
Firmware engineers work on the embedded code that runs on the processors of inside Tesla's powertrains and vehicles, as a Tesla job listing for a drive inverter firmware engineer says.
"This team has a direct impact on how future Tesla vehicles will perform," the listing says.
CAE stands for computer-aided engineering, which is a type of engineering in which computer software is used to simulate performance in order to improve various aspects of a given product, as software company Siemens explains on its website. CAE engineers are among the highest paid positions at Tesla.
Senior mechanical engineers are tasked with designing, analyzing, and testing mechanical components, as one Tesla job description says. You'd need between five and 10+ years of experience in the industry. Even though the base salary is already pretty high, you can earn up to $230,069 if you include bonuses, according to Glassdoor.
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