No Degree, No Problem! Here’s Your Chance To Join AI At Tesla & Report Directly To Elon Musk!

Car enthusiast or not, you’ve probably heard all the buzz around Elon Musk‘s revolutionary Tesla Autopilot. The company’s “full self-driving” feature makes use of advanced AI software to enable the car to potentially drive from the customer’s home to the workplace, vary speeds and navigate traffic signals without human intervention (while still being supervised).

According to CNBC, the tech entrepreneur recently tweeted that the artificial intelligence team is in hiring mode. The chosen recruits will report directly to him and can work based out of the San Francisco Bay area in California, Austin in Texas or any of the Tesla Gigafactories.

“At Tesla, using AI to solve self-driving isn’t just icing on the cake, it the cake” – @lexfridman

Join AI at Tesla! It reports directly to me & we meet/email/text almost every day. My actions, not just words, show how critically I view (benign) AI.https://t.co/iF97zvYZRz

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2020

The openings listed pertain to various categories like hardware (designers to build silicon chips), neural networks, autonomy algorithms, code foundations (coders to write fast, memory-efficient low-level code to capture high-frequency, high-volume data), and evaluation infrastructure (build tools for live debugging or automated testing).

This is what Tesla Autopilot sees using neural networks that take 70,000 GPU hours to train and output 1,000 tensors (predictions) at each timestep.

Source: https://t.co/p6V0jSdFy9 pic.twitter.com/eBzvnLJtRn

— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) February 2, 2020

Instead of degrees, the selection process will take into account a candidate’s talent, work ethic, and past work experience, reports Yahoo. The same has been reiterated by the SpaceX founder in numerous tweets.

A PhD is definitely not required. All that matters is a deep understanding of AI & ability to implement NNs in a way that is actually useful (latter point is what’s truly hard). Don’t care if you even graduated high school.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2020

Our NN is initially in Python for rapid iteration, then converted to C++/C/raw metal driver code for speed (important!). Also, tons of C++/C engineers needed for vehicle control & entire rest of car. Educational background is irrelevant, but all must pass hardcore coding test.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 3, 2020

This is not a drill folks. The application form requires candidates to fill out just three fields – name, email and “what exceptional work have you done?” So, what are you waiting for?

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