Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer on Tesla’s Data Center Manufacturing Quality Team in Houston, you will support Quality Engineering initiatives onsite. The role focuses on strengthening manufacturing quality through automation of production controls, robust data pipelines, defect prediction, and live visualization tools that help teams evaluate performance and respond to change.

Working onsite in Brookshire, TX, you will contribute to end-to-end analytics, from clarifying data needs and validating manufacturing execution systems to building databases and reporting mechanisms that surface meaningful insights.

What you’ll do

• Define requirements and perform validation of manufacturing execution systems.
• Analyze manufacturing, equipment, and product field data to extract statistics and insights about failures that drive improvements to production quality and customer experience.
• Partner with engineers to conduct end-to-end analyses, including data requirement gathering, data processing, and modeling.
• Monitor key product metrics and help explain root causes behind changes.
• Interpret results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports.
• Identify trends or patterns in complex datasets and communicate findings through dashboards and reports.
• Maintain existing data visualizations, data pipelines, and support dashboard enhancement requests.
• Acquire data from primary or secondary sources, maintain databases and data systems, and enable operational and exploratory analysis.
• Run data quality validations to confirm data creation aligns with business needs and expectations.

What you bring

• Degree in Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience writing software with Python.
• Experience with multiple data architecture paradigms, including SQL, NoSQL, Kafka, and Spark.
• Experience and interest in frontend development, preferably with JavaScript and React.
• Knowledge of data communication protocols such as REST API and WebSocket.
• Ability to work under pressure, collaborate effectively, and manage competing demands with tight deadlines.

Technologies

• Python
• SQL
• NoSQL
• Kafka
• Spark
• JavaScript
• React
• REST API
• WebSocket

Benefits

• Medical plans with plan options and $0 payroll deduction.
• Family-building, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans with $0 paycheck contribution.
• Company-paid 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 and 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.
• Teslas Babies program.
• Commuter benefits.
• Employee discounts and perks program.

This position will support automation of production controls, defect prediction, advanced statistics, automated data pipelines and associated databases, and the creation of live visualization tools to enable quality assurance.