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This position is expected to start around May 2025 and continue through the Summer term (approximately August 2025) or into Fall 2025 if available and there is an opportunity to do so. We ask for a minimum of 12 weeks, full-time and on-site, for most internships. Our internship program is for students who are actively enrolled in an academic program. Recent graduates seeking employment after graduation and not returning to school should apply for full-time positions, not internships.

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As a Firmware Engineer Intern, you will play a role in developing embedded platform drivers, application layer code for various robotics applications or validation platforms for our Tesla Bot platform. You will develop scalable drivers to interface with an ASIC or bring up a new communication protocol or optimize existing drivers to improve performance or write application-level modules to achieve a specific function on a given subsystem or develop infrastructure to validate a given subsystem. The robotics firmware team is small, passionate, and fast moving. Tesla is on a path to building humanoid robots at scale to automate repetitive and boring tasks. Come join a team of deeply knowledgeable engineers that strive to build the most robust and reliable embedded systems using cutting edge software development tools and practices.