Tesla is recruiting artificial intelligence (AI) chip designers as part of CEO Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to dominate custom AI hardware development. The recruitment drive specifically targets experts in AI-applied chip design, signaling Tesla’s strategic push to automate electronic design processes. The move aims to accelerate innovations in safety-critical applications, including autonomous driving systems that could reduce road fatalities and humanoid robots for healthcare assistance.In a long post on X (formerly Twitter), Musk asked those interested to give in bullet points about their ability in this chip design while laying out a plan for the coming years.Most people don’t know that Tesla has had an advanced AI chip and board engineering team for many years.That team has already designed and deployed several million AI chips in our cars and data centers. These chips are what enable Tesla to be the leader in real-world AI.The current version in cars is AI4, we are close to taping out AI5 and are starting work on AI6. Our goal is to bring a new AI chip design to volume production every 12 months. We expect to build chips at higher volumes ultimately than all other AI chips combined. Read that sentence again, as I’m not kidding.These chips will profoundly change the world in positive ways, saving millions of lives due to safer driving and providing advanced medical care to all people via Optimus. Send an email with three bullet points describing evidence of your exceptional ability to AI_Chips@Tesla.com. We are particularly interested in applying cutting edge AI to chip design. Thanks,Elon
‘Meeting every Tuesday and Saturday’
Musk also said that he is deeply involved in chip design.“FWIW, I’m deeply involved in the chip design and meet with the engineering team every Tuesday and Saturday. The Saturday meetings are short-term and will no longer be needed in a few months when AI5 is taped out,” he addedMusk previously announced that the company is already looking to start work on AI6 chip and has partnered with Samsung for next generation of semiconductors that can be used in Tesla cars.
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