Cybersecurity Applications Engineer

What to Expect

Join the Tesla Energy Applications Engineering team and help accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy! Our team delivers leading-edge cybersecurity solutions for critical energy infrastructure, including utility-scale battery energy storage systems such as Megapack. Security is a crucial part of Tesla’s strategy, and we are looking for an exemplary engineer who is passionate about cybersecurity, stays up to date with technological changes in both cybersecurity threats and tools, willing to challenge and improve existing industry best practices.

As a Cybersecurity Applications Engineer, you will develop and validate cybersecurity tooling and features for Tesla Energy projects including utility-scale battery power plants. You will build and test solutions such as intrusion detection systems, monitoringdashboards, and network security architectures to protect critical energy infrastructure. You will work with global cross-functional teams spanning SCADA, Network Operations, SW/HW development, Project Engineering, and Sales Engineering. We’re looking for a flexible, collaborative engineer with a passion for sustainable energy and the ability to contribute to diverse technical challenges.

What You'll Do

* Apply Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE) principles to drive cybersecurity risk assessments for Tesla Energy products and systems, including utility-scale battery projects. Ensure solutions are secure by design and identify appropriate product-level and project-level cybersecurity controls. * Design, build, and validate cybersecurity tooling and features — including intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), network monitoring tools, security dashboards, and automation for vulnerability scanning, log analysis, and continuous security monitoring. Write specifications and test plans, build and test prototypes, manage deployment, and document new capabilities * Develop and maintain project-level cybersecurity guideline...