Tesla Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions

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Machine Learning Engineer

Design RL reward for speed limits

RL for Autonomous Driving — Conceptual + Practical You are training a reinforcement-learning agent to drive a vehicle. The interview moves from policy...

Machine Learning
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302 people solved
Feb 12, 2026
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Hard
Machine Learning Engineer

Model other agents in simulation

Scenario You are building a driving simulation environment for training/evaluating an autonomous agent (planning or RL). Besides the ego vehicle, the ...

ML System Design
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283 people solved
Feb 12, 2026
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Hard
Machine Learning Engineer

Implement attention and Transformer with backward pass

Implement Scaled Dot-Product Attention and a Transformer Block (No Autograd) Context: Build multi-head self-attention and a Transformer encoder-style ...

Machine Learning
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369 people solved
Aug 12, 2025
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Easy
Machine Learning Engineer

Compute Conv2D parameter counts

Parameter Count for a 2D Convolution Layer You are given a standard 2D convolution layer with: - Input channels: C_in - Output channels: C_out - Kerne...

Machine Learning
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177 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Tesla
Hard
Machine Learning Engineer

Compare RNNs, LSTMs, Transformers, and MPC

Sequence Modeling Architectures and MPC (Technical Screen) You worked on a sequence-modeling project involving multivariate time-series signals and mu...

Machine Learning
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136 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Tesla
Hard
Machine Learning Engineer

Explain and derive importance sampling estimators

Importance Sampling: Estimators, Properties, Optimal Proposals, and ESS Context You want to estimate an expectation under a target distribution p over...

Statistics & Math
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165 people solved
Aug 12, 2025
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Tesla
Hard
Machine Learning Engineer

Design an LLM math-solving chain

Design an LLM math-solving chain Design an LLM-Based Arithmetic Solver Context You are building an LLM-driven service that answers arithmetic question...

ML System Design
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168 people solved
Jul 26, 2025
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Tesla
Hard
Machine Learning Engineer

Compute suffix sums over waypoints

Problem You are given a batch of 2D waypoint trajectories. - Input: points with shape [B, N, 2], where points[b][i] = (x, y) is the i-th waypoint for ...

Coding & Algorithms
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73 people solved
Feb 12, 2026
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Tesla
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Implement and vectorize NumPy Conv2D

Implement a 2D convolution operation from scratch using NumPy only (no TensorFlow or PyTorch). Assume NCHW input shape (N, C_in, H_in, W_in) and weigh...

Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)
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9 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Tesla
Easy
Machine Learning Engineer

Implement 2D convolution forward pass

Problem Implement the forward pass of a 2D convolution (conv2d) from scratch (no deep learning libraries). You are given: - Input tensor x with shape ...

Coding & Algorithms
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222 people solved
Dec 15, 2025
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Tesla
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Implement automatic braking logic in Python

Using Python, implement a simple automatic braking function. Given current speed v (m/s), distance to obstacle d (m), maximum deceleration a_max (m/s^...

Coding & Algorithms
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54 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Tesla
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Compute nearest index within threshold after walking distances

You are given: ( 1) points: a list of N 2D coordinates in miles, points[i] = [x_i, y_i], ordered; ( 2) distances: a list of M nonnegative floats (mile...

Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)
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6 people solved
Aug 12, 2025
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