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Program Engineer, End to End Design

Tesla Motors, Inc.
paid holidays, flex time, 401(k)
United States, Texas, Austin
Oct 04, 2025
What to Expect Tesla is currently seeking a motivated Project Engineer to support Global Factory Design projects for Vehicle and Energy Products. This role focuses on optimizing supply chain inputs for effective material flow and layout decisions while designing future factories. This role will involve coordination between multiple cross functional teams and ensure the most effective cost/option at a part level for new products across factories and identify best practices to carry forward to future factories. Strong engineering and project management fundamentals are required. It is critical for a successful applicant to solve problems using first principles analysis, and exercise aggressive design optimization. This position may be based in Fremont, CA or Austin, TX. The team is responsible for developing a factory design which supports seamless integration between production, packaging, material flow, supply chain, construction, and facilities teams. Innovation is expected. Through a detailed understanding of the high-level factory objectives and extensive collaboration with the internal and external teams designing individual factory components, this team ensures that the overall factory design achieves all of Tesla's objectives. The ideal candidate will excel in a demanding and fast-paced environment where they will work as part of a strong, agile, and highly motivated team to accomplish some of the most ambitious projects being attempted in any industry today. The candidate will be able to think at a systems level to design optimal material delivery systems and factory layouts while making reasonable assumptions. What You'll Do Manage End-to-End planning for optimizing various aspects of a part flow starting from supplier to manufacturing lineside pick. Enable analysis to identify the best outcome for all teams combined by working with packaging, material flow, logistics and manufacturing teams Use expertise in supply chain, vendor selection, transportation and logistics selections to explore opportunity for early cost savings Develop and improve cost optimization tools for End-to-End optimization Develop and manage financial models, along with technical expertise to help Tesla make the best decisions on a part basis Challenge internal teams and external partners to think creatively - bring technical expertise to ensure teams stay on the right path for problem solving Lead development of mitigation plans to address risks and delays, think creatively to provide support to the team while keeping program on track Develop/maintain collaborative working relationships with internal Tesla teams and vendors based on positive attitude, strong work ethics, effective & open communication, with an emphasis on teamwork Build and maintain clear metrics for the organization to achieve without involving additional documentation and bureaucratic work What You'll Bring Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, technical experience, or equivalent experience 5+ years manufacturing/supply chain, technical project management experience preferred Ability to quickly understand new technical concepts at a working level Experience managing supply chain or logistics projects with high degrees of variation/uncertainty Ability to quickly resolve conflicts while maintaining strong team relationships Comfortable working with ambiguous data Experience creating and presenting dashboards and developing clear visuals to describe relevant project objectives/issues Strong communicator at all organizational levels 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: Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical 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 Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna 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 Employee Assistance Program Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary 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