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About The Team Tesla is seeking a highly motivated Software Validation Engineering Intern for the Wireless Systems team to help develop and validate high quality wireless technologies for existing and future Self-Driving & Optimus platform initiatives. This role involves designing and implementing test cases, troubleshooting and validation of various software bugs and features, enhancing Test automation for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Cellular technologies and closely working with Development, other QA, hardware and program management teams internally and externally with vendors and Tesla partners.

What You'll Do

Design end-to-end test plans, procedures and scripts for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Cellular systems Bring up and maintain test setups and apparatus for validation cycles Root-cause issues reported by internal, other Development and QA teams and customer feedback Provide support to Software Development and Manufacturing teams Enhance Test automation frameworks and data analysis tools Analyze telemetry data and identify fleet wide issues Identify areas of opportunity and implement improvements, knowledge sharing and best practices Drive various tasks to completion and be the connoisseur of great quality product

What You'll Bring

Currently pursuing a Degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science / Engineering, or a related field Strong Python, Perl, or Ruby programming skills, familiarity with common python packages Knowledge and/or work experience in wireless connectivity domain Knowledge and/or work experience with software testing life cycle and QA processes Good understanding of Wireless technologies, preferably Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or Cellular Working experience with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or Cellular troubleshooting/debugging tools (i.e. Wireshark, Ellysis, Frontline, log analysis, etc.) is a plus