Technical Program Manager — Engineering Software Tools

What To Expect Tesla's electric motors depend on how well we design, simulate, and iterate – and increasingly on the software tools that make that possible. This role owns how that software gets built: scope, timelines, quality bar, and accountability. You will not be a scheduler or a status-report collector. You will be a technical owner who has written code and designed architecture, who knows where software projects actually stall, and who drives a team of engineering-tools developers to ship exceptional work on a predictable cadence. You will define what "done" and "excellent" mean here, and hold the line on both. The role is based in Greece, in a team whose work has global impact on Tesla's motors. What You'll Do Own end-to-end delivery of the engineering tools portfolio: data pipelines, visualization and comparison tools, optimization workflows, and AI agentic workflows used across the motor organization Drive daily execution – scope, timelines, dependencies, and blockers – with direct, hands-on follow-up rather than second-hand status Establish single-threaded ownership for every active workstream, so each project has one clearly accountable engineer Define and enforce the quality bar: architecture reviews, code review standards, testing, documentation, and performance expectations for high-volume engineering datasets Break ambiguous engineering needs into well-scoped, estimable work, and push back on scope that does not earn its cost Identify and remove bottlenecks, both technical (infrastructure, data access, tooling, CI) and organizational (unclear requirements, cross-team dependencies) Partner with motor designers, test engineers, and software developers to translate engineering needs into a prioritized, realistic roadmap Drive adoption of AI coding agents across the team to increase throughput – while insisting that engineers review and own every choice those agents make Report clearly to leadership on progress, risk, and trade-offs, with no surprise What You'll Bring Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field 5 years in software development, with hands-on experience writing production code and owning architecture decisions 2 years leading or driving delivery of software projects (technical program management, tech lead, or engineering management) Strong working knowledge of Python and/or MATLAB – enough to read the team's code, review a design, and judge an estimate Experience with SQL databases and large-scale datasets Hands-on experience with AI coding agents (e.g., Claude, Cursor, or similar) in real projects, and the judgment to critically review and own every choice they make Demonstrated track record of raising a team's quality bar and delivery predictability Clear, concise communicator who is comfortable holding people accountable without bureaucracy Comfortable working in a multinational, cross-functional team Fluent written and spoken English Nice to have Experience building LLM-based tools or agents (e.g., tool calling, agent frameworks, MCP) , Tesla