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Tesla is Hiring and Elon Musk is Personally Conducting Interviews

By
Benjamin Snyder
Benjamin Snyder
Managing Editor
By
Benjamin Snyder
Benjamin Snyder
Managing Editor
November 20, 2015, 3:30 PM ET
Photograph by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is hiring and will be personally involved in the process.

Musk has taken to Twitter to detail the engineering positions: The hires will work in Tesla’s (TSLA) autonomous vehicle division and, more specifically, on its autopilot software, TechCrunch reported.

In a series of tweets, Musk said he wants his vehicles to “achieve generalized full autonomy” and sent an email address for resumes.

“We are looking for hardcore software engineers,” he said. “No prior experience with cars required. Please include code sample or link to your work.”

“This is a super high priority,” Musk said after stating he will be personally involved in the hiring process.

Here are his tweets:

Ramping up the Autopilot software team at Tesla to achieve generalized full autonomy. If interested, contact autopilot@teslamotors.com.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2015

Should mention that I will be interviewing people personally and Autopilot reports directly to me. This is a super high priority.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2015

On Friday, Tesla recalled 90,000 of its Model S sedans over concerns with the vehicles’ seat belts.

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Benjamin Snyder is Fortune's managing editor, leading operations for the newsroom.

Prior to rejoining Fortune, he was a managing editor at Business Insider and has worked as an editor for Bloomberg, LinkedIn and CNBC, covering leadership stories, sports business, careers and business news. He started his career as a breaking news reporter at Fortune in 2014.

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