Tesla appears to be building a teleoperations team for its robotaxi service
As Tesla gears up to launch a robotaxi service in the coming years, the automaker looks like it’s building out a teleoperations team. According to a recent job listing, Tesla is hiring a software engineer to help develop a teleoperations system that will allow human operators to remotely access and control the company’s upcoming robotaxis and humanoid robots.
The software engineer for the Palo Alto-based role would “drive requirements, make design decisions, and implement software integration for this custom teleoperation system.”
While the job posting doesn’t clarify whether Tesla is looking to grow an existing teleops team, or if it is building the team and capabilities from scratch, the existence of such a team is notable for two reasons: The first is that it signals Tesla is getting serious about deploying its robotaxis on public roads. The second is that it’s a deviation from Tesla’s previous rhetoric of self-sufficiency.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly emphasized Tesla’s ability to achieve full autonomy purely through advanced neural network training and camera-based perception, without reliance on human intervention.
