Validation & Tooling Software Engineer (Residential Energy Products)

Quick Facts

• Role: Validation & Tooling Software Engineer focused on residential energy device software

Description

Design and maintain internal Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and developer tooling that helps residential energy firmware teams validate behavior with high confidence. Build high-fidelity simulation environments, trace capture/replay, and visualization/debugging tools for complex multi-process embedded Linux systems. Extend the tooling platform to support new products, revisions, capabilities, and regional/market-specific configurations.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain internal SIL and developer tooling (primarily Python and Go)

• Build close-to-real-life SIL environments for multi-process embedded Linux systems

• Develop visualization and debugging tools (reports, dashboards, control-flow visualization)

• Implement and support trace/hook/instrumentation to enable field trace capture and faithful SIL replay

• Onboard new products, revisions, capabilities, and regional configurations into shared workflows

• Collaborate with Product, Device Software, Hardware, and Validation to turn pain points into tool designs and shippable internal platforms

• Improve reliability and usability of tooling to reduce time-to-root-cause for lab/SIL/field issues

• Contribute to automated tests and CI integration

• Support bring-up and field anomaly reproduction where tooling helps

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience

• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work in a fast-paced collaborative environment

• Experience building internal developer/validation/simulation tooling used daily by other engineers

• Proficiency in Python and Go; Rust/C/C++ experience is a plus

• Comfort working across the boundary between tools and the systems under test (embedded/device software, multi-process Linux, IPC, logs, traces)

• Real-world experience in one or more areas: SIL/simulation harnesses/high-fidelity embedded validation; debugging/visualization/observability; trace/instrumentation capture-replay or hook-based systems; extending test/simulation platforms

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans (eligible for $0 payroll deduction medical options)

• Family-building, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits

• Health Savings Account contribution with eligible medical plan

• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare and Dependent Care)

• 401(k) with employer match and Employee Stock Purchase Plans

• Company-paid Basic Life and AD&D; short-term and long-term disability insurance

• Employee Assistance Program; sick/vacation and paid holidays

• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources

• Voluntary benefits (e.g., critical illness, legal services, accident insurance, pet insurance)

• Employee discounts/perks, commuter benefits, and earned wage access (eligibility-dependent)

• Tesla Babies program

• Expected compensation: $140,000–$300,000 annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits