Internship, Autobidder Algorithms (Spring 2024)

Tesla

Oct 12, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Off-cycle Internship
Engineering
Data
San Francisco

Requirements

Currently working towards a graduate degree in a relevant program such as Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research, Data Science, or similar with a focus on Power and Energy Systems
Experience with machine learning, time-series forecasting, numerical optimization such as linear and mixed integer programming, optimal control, model predictive control, stochastic optimization, and computational finance
Strong engineering fundamentals and intuition, applied to firmware and software-enabled systems
Practical experience with programming languages such as SQL or Python
A bias for action and a passion for sustainable energy and electric vehicles
Remain engaged, proactive, and positive while solving very challenging problems
Knowledge of and experience with electricity markets preferred
Familiarity with software development practices and experience writing production quality code

Responsibilities

Improving wholesale electricity price forecasting algorithms used in automated bidding workflows for battery assets
Modeling risk-reward tradeoffs, effects of bid quantity on clearing price, risk aware day-ahead vs. real-time quantity allocation, etc. in automated bidding algorithms
Improving accuracy of benchmarks for performance of automated bidding algorithms and developing novel metrics to track performance
Implementing production-level algorithms; testing and documentation; communicating progress, requirements and results

Tesla

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

Automotive

Industry

10,001+

Employees

2003

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy through increasingly affordable electric vehicles in addition to renewable energy generation and storage. California-based Tesla is committed to having the best-in-class in safety, performance, and reliability in all Tesla cars. There are currently over 275,000 Model S, Model X and Model 3 vehicles on the road worldwide. To achieve a sustainable energy future, Tesla also created infinitely scalable energy products: Powerwall, Powerpack and Solar Roof. As the world’s only vertically integrated energy company, Tesla continues to innovate, scale and reduce the costs of commercial and grid-scale systems, with the goal of ultimately getting us to 100% renewable energy grids.