LMR Radio Engineer

What To Expect
We are looking for a highly motivated engineer specializing in LMR radio network engineering to join our radio program globally. This will be the fourth dedicated role in this space, and you will have the support and backing to drive your initiatives across some of the world’s most unique and leading systems. This role reports directly to the Manager within Security Systems Engineering, with a global preview, including travel of approximately 25%. The Security Systems Engineering team is responsible for helping Tesla securely design, build, and operate infrastructure across corporate, manufacturing and production environments. You will work on a broad set of efforts including the design and implementation of systems at new sites, ensuring survivability and resiliency is exceptional, driving the feature set forward, and researching the latest in LMR communications. Our radio systems are life safety critical and your work will focus heavily on ensuring our current and future states produce a highly trusted tool for our Security, EHS, and Production teams. We are a fast-growing team and are looking for someone who can dive in, help build our culture, ensure a high bar of trust and integrity is maintained while managing fast-moving projects across with complex dependencies and tight timelines. You will play a critical role executing high-impact company-wide initiatives and working to continuously improve the effectiveness of our org. The ideal candidate must be highly detail oriented, learning-by-doing, and be able to break through communication barriers in a way that builds trust across the organization. You will be expected to lead your own workstreams, impact broad change, and buck trends. No technology is off the table and you will have opportunities to design the best systems that blow away our expectations.

What You’ll Do

Process Radio Request tickets, including shipping and receiving repair requests.

Program radios, disburse hardware requested.

Maintain hardware and parts inventories, organize and improve the flow of service.

Provide services and maintain architecture and engineering work across radio systems at Tesla, participating in radio‑systems discussions with internal and external partners.

Exercise excellent troubleshooting abilities and the ability to learn on the go ensuring seamless communication with public safety networks through technology and MOUs.

Communicate clearly with engineering and executive leadership on the current state of radio and associated systems.

Participate in technical planning, cost and risk analyses, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for subsystems and system elements.

Participate in customer requirements analysis, develop system requirements and define allocations to lower levels (subsystem, elements and components).

Assist other Security Systems Engineering members as needed to help execute team goals in a dynamic fashion.

Attend meetings at early or late times to match up with colleagues located all over the world.

What You’ll Bring

2-5 years of radio and RF systems experience.

Experience with Motorola MOTOTRBO radio system and integrations.

Experience in dispatch/console systems design and deployment.

Experience in Motorola WAVE OnCloud and LMR Interop.

Competence in Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) and Bi‑Directional Amplifiers (BDA).

Competence in IP Networking, including L2/L3, OSPF, UDP/TCP, firewalls, CLI.

Competence RF design and analysis skills.

Ability to coordinate activities of a team of vendors and contractors.

Experience with Configuration Management tools and/or practices.

Test equipment knowledge of service monitors, power meters, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, DMMs, network analyzers, and signal generators with overall knowledge of RF design principles and testing.

Benefits

Medical plans with multiple options and $0 payroll deduction.

Family‑building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits.

Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans with $0 paycheck contribution.

Company paid Health Savings Account contribution when enrolled in a high‑deductible medical plan with an HSA.

Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).

401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits.

Company paid basic life, AD&D.

Short‑term and long‑term disability insurance (90‑day waiting period).

Employee Assistance Program.

Sick and vacation time (flex time for salary positions, accrued hours for hourly positions), and paid holidays.

Backup childcare and parenting support resources.

Voluntary benefits including critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance.

Weight‑loss and tobacco cessation programs.

Tesla Babies program.

Commuter benefits.

Employee discounts and perks program.

Expected Compensation
$124,000 – $186,000 annual salary plus cash and stock awards and benefits. Pay offered may vary depending on market location, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

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