Tesla Opens AI and Robotics Positions in Bengaluru, India
Tesla has listed two new job openings in AI and Robotics at its Bengaluru office in India. The move suggests an expansion of the company's technology development and talent acquisition efforts for projects like the Optimus robot beyond its primary hubs.
- The new Bengaluru positions include an AI Hardware Engineer role focused on designing the custom silicon and advanced AI chips that power both the Optimus robot and Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology. - This expansion taps into Bengaluru's significant tech talent pool; the city is considered India's AI innovation capital and a leading global hub for technology and engineering skills. - The hiring for Optimus-related roles comes after the humanoid robot's Gen-2 was unveiled in December 2023, which featured a 30% faster walking speed and improved hand dexterity, and its deployment in Tesla factories for simple tasks in 2024. - Tesla's move into advanced R&D in India follows its recent commercial entry into the country, which began with the opening of its first vehicle showroom in Mumbai in July 2025 and sales of the Model Y. - The new roles are part of the same vertically integrated strategy that drives Tesla's Dojo supercomputer, focusing on in-house hardware to accelerate machine learning for its most ambitious projects. - While Tesla is a major global player, India has its own growing humanoid robotics ecosystem, including startups like Addverb Technologies, which aims to deploy its own humanoids, and the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) semi-humanoid robot, Vyommitra, developed for the Gaganyaan space mission. - The skills required for the hardware role, such as experience with AI accelerators, microarchitecture, RTL, and EDA tools, reflect the specialized expertise needed to develop custom compute solutions for embodied AI.
