10 Tesla engineering leaders
Tesla engineering leadership here splits across Autopilot and Optimus, energy and charging software, powertrain and materials, and hardware reliability and test, with nine of the ten in director-level Tesla roles today. A call here fits a hardware company deciding how to structure engineering teams, how much validation to build in-house, or how software and vehicle programs share engineers.
Professionals to explore
Jan Brückner
LinkedInExperience: Director Powertrain Engineering Europe · Tesla
Since 2026 Jan Brückner has held two current Tesla titles, Director Powertrain Engineering Europe and Managing Director Tesla Engineering Germany GmbH. The record also shows Sr. Manager Powertrain Engineering Europe (2022–2026) and Sr. Manager Cell Development (2021–2022) at Tesla and Head of Test & Validation at Northvolt Zwei GmbH & Co. KG (2020–2021), so Jan suits questions on powertrain and cell engineering in Europe.
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Jeremy He
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Tesla
Jeremy He is Director of Engineering at Tesla (since 2021), with responsibility for systems architecture and modeling, firmware integration and performance validation, field quality and failure analysis for Tesla's Energy Products business. Before that came Senior Manager System Engineering at Tesla (2015–2021) and engineering roles at Parker Hannifin (2007–2015), a fit for questions on validating and supporting energy hardware in the field.
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Marcos Guerlando Guerlando
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering And Operations · Tesla
As Director of Engineering And Operations at Tesla since July 2023, Marcos Guerlando Guerlando previously held Director of Engineering (2021–2023) and Sr. Engineering Manager (2017–2021) at Tesla. Engineering Manager roles at Halliburton (2011–2017) and Gardner Denver (2006–2011) come before that, so Marcos can compare how an engineering and operations role at Tesla differs from industrial engineering management elsewhere.
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Matthew You
LinkedInExperience: Director, Optimus (Tesla Bot) & Autopilot Engineering · Tesla
Matthew You holds Director, Optimus (Tesla Bot) & Autopilot Engineering at Tesla (since June 2022), after Director of Software Engineering (2020–2022), Senior Engineering Manager (2018–2020), Engineering Manager (2017–2018) and Staff Software Engineer (2015–2017) at Tesla. With one title covering both programs, Matthew is a fit for questions on engineering that spans the Optimus robot and Autopilot.
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Phil Duan
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, Autopilot · Tesla
Leading AI development for FSD and Robotaxi is the focus of Phil Duan's role as Director of Engineering, Autopilot at Tesla since January 2026. Earlier Tesla roles are all on Autopilot: Principal Software Engineer (2025), Sr. Staff Software Engineer (2022–2025) and Staff Software Engineer (2018–2019 and 2020–2022), so Phil can speak to an autonomy software team from both the engineer and the director seat.
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Robert Kang
LinkedInExperience: Former Senior Director of Engineering · Tesla
Robert Kang was Senior Director of Engineering at Tesla from 2020 to 2024, after Engineering Manager there (2013–2020). Robert's Tesla work covered EV software, battery systems and autonomous driving technologies, following Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer roles at Qualcomm (2002–2012), so Robert is a fit for questions on how vehicle software engineering is organized.
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Silvio Brugada
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Tesla
Silvio Brugada has been Director of Engineering at Tesla since February 2019. Earlier Tesla titles are engineering manager roles in Software Platforms (2015–2016), Navigation and Software Platforms (2016–2017) and Navigation, Software, and Firmware Platforms (2017–2019), and Staff Software Engineer (2013–2015). Silvio's work includes features such as Sentry Mode and navigation and routing, making Silvio a fit for questions on in-car software and connected features.
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Wenjia Wang
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Engineering · Tesla
Wenjia Wang, based in Beijing, has been Sr. Director of Engineering at Tesla since December 2023, after Engineering Director (2019–2023), Senior Engineering Manager (2016–2019) and Engineering Manager (2014–2016) at Tesla. The work spans powertrain performance modeling, controls and energy storage, and a Materials Engineering team delivering materials innovations for local manufacturing, which suits questions on engineering that supports local manufacturing.
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Wes Morrill
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director Engineering - Reliability, Test, and Analysis · Tesla
Two current Tesla titles sit on this record: Sr. Director Engineering - Reliability, Test, and Analysis (since 2024) and Cybertruck Lead Engineer (since 2021). Wes Morrill was also Director Engineering - Hardware Development Reliability, Test and Analysis (2019–2024), Senior Engineering Manager - Reliability and Test Engineering (2017–2019) and Engineering Manager - Hardware Development Test Lab (2015–2017), the most direct fit here for questions on hardware validation and test labs.
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Yuval Joseph
LinkedInExperience: Director of Software Engineering · Tesla
Director of Software Engineering at Tesla since June 2024, focused on Energy and Charging Software, Yuval Joseph was earlier Head of Software and Firmware Engineering, Energy & Charging (2021–2024), Senior Software Engineering Manager (2019–2021), SW Manager Energy Control Applications (2018–2019) and Staff Software Engineer (2015–2018). That makes Yuval the pick for questions on software for energy and charging products.
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Choose the right perspective
Phil Duan, Matthew You and Silvio Brugada are the software and autonomy picks; Yuval Joseph and Jeremy He cover Tesla's energy products side, one from software and one from systems and field quality. For test, validation and failure analysis go to Wes Morrill or Jeremy He, and for powertrain in Europe, Jan Brückner; Robert Kang is the only former Tesla director here.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Tesla decide which engineering problems a vehicle program owns and which go to shared teams like Autopilot or reliability and test?
- 02How are hardware validation and test labs set up at Tesla so that design changes can still reach production quickly?
- 03When a Tesla engineering team grows, how are engineering managers chosen and how is a team split without slowing a program?
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