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10 Tesla Autopilot engineers
These ten current Tesla Autopilot engineers hold software engineering roles on Tesla Autopilot, with work that includes embedded systems, AI inference hardware and simulation for FSD. A reader can learn what Autopilot engineer work at Tesla involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Alon Daks
LinkedInExperience: Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autopilot · Tesla
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autopilot at Tesla since 2025, based in Palo Alto. Alon Daks also held Tesla roles as Staff Software Engineer, Autopilot (2023–2025) and Senior Software Engineer, Autopilot (2021–2023), and was Deep Learning Team Lead (2021) and Staff Deep Learning Scientist (2021) at Butterfly Network, Inc.
Brandon Goh
LinkedInExperience: Senior Autopilot Software Engineer · Tesla
Senior Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla since 2026 and former Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla (2024–2026), with the profile listing the role as Optimus AI visualization lead covering 3D, 4D, generative Gaussian splats and world models. Brandon Goh was also an Autopilot Software Intern at Tesla (2023).
Caleb Wheeler
LinkedInExperience: Senior Autopilot Software Engineer · Tesla
Senior Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla since 2024 and former Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla (2023–2024), working as an Autopilot software engineer for embedded systems, per the profile. Caleb Wheeler was also an Autopilot Intern - Embedded Systems at Tesla (2023) and an Embedded Software Engineering Intern at John Deere (2022).
Fulton Greiner
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Development Engineer · Tesla
Senior Software Development Engineer at Tesla since 2025, working on custom AI inference silicon at Tesla Autopilot. Fulton Greiner says they write performance-tuned kernels for a proprietary AI accelerator, maintain its runtime and silicon interface, and own validation for the inference ASIC. Former Firmware Engineer (2024–2025) and Hardware Development Engineer (2023–2024) at Tesla.
Griffith Heller
LinkedInExperience: Software Engineer, Autopilot · Tesla
Software Engineer, Autopilot at Tesla since 2022, with the role listed in Palo Alto, building the core Autopilot/Optimus compute framework for real-time AI. Former Software Engineer at VelocityEHS (2021–2022) and at Kinetica Labs (2020–2021), and System Integration and Validation Engineer at Starry, Inc. (2019).
Jihad Bunkheila
LinkedInExperience: Senior Autopilot Software Engineer · Tesla
Senior Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla since 2024, based in Palo Alto per the profile, and former Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla (2023–2024). Jihad Bunkheila was also a Software Engineer Intern at NVIDIA (2022) and at Shopify (2021), and a Software Developer at UW Blueprint (2021–2022).
Luke Zhu
LinkedInExperience: Senior Autopilot Sofware Engineer · Tesla
Senior Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla since 2026 (listed as Senior Autopilot Sofware Engineer) and former Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla (2025–2026). Luke Zhu describes AI and hardware performance codesign work at Tesla Autopilot, including support for AI4/5 data center workloads. Former ML Compiler Intern at d-Matrix (2023).
Mark Lee
LinkedInExperience: Staff Autopilot Software Engineer · Tesla
Staff Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla since 2025, working on simulating reality for FSD and Optimus, per the profile. Former Sr. Staff Engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios (2018–2025), and Principal Software Engineer (2016–2018) and Senior Software Engineer (2012–2016) at DreamWorks Animation.
Rajasekhar J.
LinkedInExperience: Staff Autopilot Software Engineer · Tesla
Staff Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla since 2022, with the role listed in Palo Alto. Rajasekhar J. also held Tesla roles as Sr. Software Engineer, Autopilot (2020–2022), Sensor Software Engineer, Autopilot (2017–2020) and Software Engineer (2016–2017).
Sean Goyel
LinkedInExperience: Senior Software Engineer - Autopilot · Tesla
Senior Software Engineer - Autopilot at Tesla since 2024, based in San Francisco per the profile, and former Software Engineer - Autopilot at Tesla (2023–2024). Sean Goyel was also a Software Engineer at Meta (2022), at Philips (2021) and a Software Developer at ResponsiveAds (2021).
Choose the right perspective
Pick the engineer whose work is closest to your question, since embedded firmware, AI hardware performance, simulation and tooling sit in different parts of the stack. Look at seniority and tenure on Autopilot, since staff engineers and recent joiners see the system from different angles.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you test autonomy software changes before they reach vehicles?
- 02What tradeoffs come up when running neural network inference on custom in-car hardware?
- 03How does simulation fit into the development loop for driver assistance features?
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