Dreaming of a profession at Elon Musk’s visionary electrical automotive big Tesla? Then you definitely’ll should compete for one in all simply three jobs accessible in case you’re primarily based in America, as a result of the $547 billion firm has simply quietly slashed 1000’s of listings.
Till as just lately as Tuesday, Tesla was promoting greater than 3,400 job postings throughout the USA, Mexico, Canada and Puerto Rico—the majority of which had been in California, Texas, and Nevada, based on Quartz’s evaluation of archived pages.
All the roles, from prototype automobile operators to development carpenters have since been axed—and all that is still are three spots on Tesla’s Manufacturing Improvement Program.
However they don’t seem like full-time jobs—at first, not less than—with two of the adverts boasting that profitable candidates might want to full 7 to 16 weeks of coaching (relying on whether or not you apply for the gig in Texas or California) earlier than having the “alternative to transition” into Manufacturing Affiliate. No guarantees.
In the meantime, the third Manufacturing Improvement Program opening in Nevada is simply 4 to 6 weeks lengthy and is particularly marked as an internship solely, based on Tesla’s web site.
Nonetheless need to be a part of Musk’s imaginative and prescient for Tesla to turn out to be the way forward for “fixing autonomy” for driverless automobiles?
Then you definitely’ll should “stoop, lay, bend, attain, squat, kneel, crouch, twist and crawl for prolonged intervals of time, together with as much as 12 hours a day,” based on the job description.
Hopeful new hires will even want to have the ability to “carry 20 lbs. up and down stairs,” be okay with “exposures to hazardous supplies,” and be open to working flexibly “together with days, nights, in a single day, and/or weekends.”
Fortune has reached out to Tesla for remark.
Bother in paradise at Tesla
Make no mistake, Tesla has huge targets—with Musk proclaiming that the enterprise will reach its mission to resolve autonomy, even when he’s “kidnapped by aliens” —and it was using over 140,000 folks as of late final 12 months to assist obtain these lofty ambitions.
However in current months, after recalling tens of millions of its automobiles and watching automobile gross sales begin to decline, the corporate has been hit by layoffs, hiring freezes and senior resignations.
“With [Tesla’s] speedy progress there was duplication of roles and job capabilities in sure areas,” Musk wrote to workers final month, as he defined that not less than 14,000 employees had been set to lose their jobs. “There may be nothing I hate extra, however it should be accomplished.”
Since then, workers gotten layoff notices in waves over the course of 4 weeks. “I hold ready for Elon to ship one other e mail and inform us they’re lastly accomplished firing folks,” one present Tesla employee informed Enterprise Insider.
Simply final week, Musk sacked Tesla’s whole Supercharger workforce, together with his highest-ranking feminine govt, and unapologetically informed employees that he’s going to be “completely hardcore” with layoffs and cost-cutting.
“Whereas some on exec employees are taking this severely, most are usually not but doing so,” the tech billionaire who additionally owns SpaceX and X, previously referred to as Twitter, added.
Then Tesla’s prime HR govt (and one other one of many firm’s most senior ladies), Allie Arebalo, handed in her discover—becoming a member of a handful of different senior leaders to vote with their toes and resign from the presently tumultuous tech agency.
Even Drew Baglino, the corporate’s former senior vice chairman accountable for powertrain engineering and a number one contender to switch one-day Musk on the Tesla throne, has cashed out. Baglino just lately liquidated nearly his whole stake within the firm—value $181 million—days after leaving the corporate.
Now, the corporate has slashed its summer season internship program to chop prices, and younger aspiring workers have been informed their presents had been retracted simply weeks earlier than they had been as a result of begin work.