Internship, Data Engineer, Energy (Summer 2026)

Tesla•Palo Alto, CA

2d•$25 - $50•Onsite

About The Position

The Internship Recruiting Team is driven by the passion to recognize and develop emerging talent. Our year-round program places the best students in positions where they will grow technically, professionally, and personally through their experience working closely with their Manager, Mentor, and team. We are dedicated to providing an experience that allows the intern to experience life at Tesla by including them in projects that are critical to their team’s success. Applicants may be reviewed by one or more of the following teams: Energy | Asset Management The Energy Asset Management team is responsible for preparing data for analytical and operational uses across all energy products. The team builds and maintains data pipelines that consolidate data from different systems into a structured format that can be consumed by the team to build reports, dashboards and drive decisions. Energy | Service Transformation & Analytics The Energy Services Transformation & Analytics team is embedded in daily operations, supporting both near-term execution and long-term planning. Team members are expected to partner closely with the business to analyze technical data, provide recommendations, and lead cross-functional decision-making and implementation of the recommendations. Energy | Service Engineering Data Analytics and Infrastructure, Query Optimization The Tesla Energy Service Engineering Data Analytics and Infrastructure team is responsible for leveraging the vast amount of data from the Energy fleet to ensure the best customer experience and fleet availability across the entire Tesla Energy portfolio; Industrial, Residential, Supercharger, and Solar. In this internship you will have a mandate to identify and improve the underlying algorithms and infrastructure supporting the entire Energy organization. Energy | Product Engineer Tesla Energy Products Service Engineering and Fleet Analytic team utilize fleet data and engineering fundamentals to monitor product performance, and root cause design, process, or firmware failures in our fleet of renewable energy hardware The person in this role would play a central role in ensuring we have the highest quality products for our customers. This person will work with a cross-functional team of engineers to define and track product KPIs, troubleshoot and diagnose device issues, deploy necessary corrective actions ranging from firmware changes, hardware design changes, manufacturing process or installation process changes, etc.

Requirements

Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent in experience
Strong knowledge of SQL and Python
Demonstrated experience building data pipelines using Airflow
Working knowledge of Spark and big data processing
Experience with Git or other source control software

Nice To Haves

Scala experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Deploy data pipelines that transforms data into structure output for analytics in a robust, efficient and scalable framework
Build tools and frameworks to help users summarize and explore the data
Automate reporting and data quality checks
Provide ongoing support for deployed pipelines
Perform Advanced SQL queries on massive datasets to create analytics that provide insight to drive action using various SQL languages and Spark distributed infrastructure
Create and maintain analytics dashboards (using Tableau, PowerBi and similar tools)
Create and maintain data ELT pipelines using Python and Airflow scheduling
Use Git and Jira for workflow tracking
Optimize and undertake advanced SQL queries on massive datasets to create analytics that provide insight to drive action using various SQL languages and Spark distributed infrastructure
Create and maintain analytics dashboards (using Tableau and similar tools)
Create and maintain data ELT pipelines using Airflow scheduling
Use Git and Jira for workflow tracking

Benefits

Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans. Both have an option with a $0 payroll contribution
Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Medical Plan with HSA
Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
Company Paid Basic Life, AD&D, and short-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
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
Commuter benefits
Employee discounts and perks program