AI Engineer, Reinforcement Learning & Distillation, Autonomy & Robotics

What to Expect

Scaling transformers, as well as more recent advances in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), has created models with Ph-D level intelligence in a wide variety of subject areas - from Math to Social Sciences. Yet these models continue to struggle in real-world physical reasoning, often struggling to tell left from right.

At Tesla AI, we want to develop Olympiad-level physical intelligence that will enable highly capable robots, both wheeled and legged. These models should be able to anticipate and reason about future movements of any object or scene at the level of a race car driver or professional athlete. To accomplish this, you will have access to petabytes of multimodal (video, audio, action etc.) real-world data from our global fleet of cars and robots, as well as Tesla's state-of-the-art compute resources.

An added level of complexity with robotics is the requirement to run at real-time on local compute. This requirement acts as a forcing function for Tesla AI to develop models that optimize for the highest intelligence per byte of parameters. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on post-training and reinforcement learning of large multimodal models with an emphasis on real-world physical intelligence. You will also get the chance to distill these large models to smaller models that will run on our state-of-the-art inference hardware.

What You'll Do

• Create multimodal post-training and RLVR datasets that utilize Tesla's fleet of cars and robots
• Develop training infra necessary to run reinforcement learning on large multimodal models
• Develop downstream evaluations that can guide the tuning of these large models
• Distill large models into smaller models that can run in real-time on the local compute of our cars and robots

What You'll Bring

Compensation and Benefits Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire :

2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction

Expected Compensation $140,000 - $420,000 / annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.