Day: November 24, 2025

• Elon Musk is urging engineers to apply to Tesla as the company ramps up efforts for its AI chips.
• Tesla’s open jobs on its AI hardware team include design engineering roles.
• Musk said he’s “deeply involved” in Tesla’s chip design and meets with engineers twice a week.

Elon Musk isn’t just talking about AI chips. The Tesla CEO is now asking engineers who are interested in a job to email the company, and he’s personally running twice-weekly design meetings.

In a post on X on Saturday night, Musk called for job applicants for Tesla’s AI chip engineering team. He asked candidates to send an email with three bullet points proving their “exceptional ability” to Tesla.

“We are particularly interested in applying cutting-edge AI to chip design,” he said.

Musk said in the post that the company aims 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,” he added.

The current chip in Tesla cars is known as AI4, and the company is “close to taping out AI5” while work is starting on AI6, Musk said.

“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,” Musk added. Optimus is Tesla’s humanoid robot project.

Musk has been ramping up Tesla’s chip ambitions. In July, the company signed a $16.5 billion deal with Samsung to manufacture Tesla’s A16 chip at its new plant in Texas.

Tesla has posted Palo Alto, California-based engineering roles for its AI hardware team, including openings for physical design engineers and signal and power integrity engineers.

The physical design engineer job requires candidates with 10 or more years of experience in designing and building integrated circuits, also known as chips. The role involves designing, constructing, and integrating the building blocks of Tesla’s AI chips. The listing said the position pays about $152,000 to $264,000 a year, plus cash and stock awards and benefits.

The signal and power integrity engineer role helps develop next-generation AI chips and systems for Tesla vehicles and Optimus robots. The position is focused on testing and validating the chips. The listing said the job pays about $120,000 to $318,000 a year, with cash and stock awards and benefits.

Musk is ‘deeply involved’ in chip design and meetings

Musk said in the post on X on Saturday that he is “deeply involved in the chip design” and meets 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 added.

Musk has long been known for inserting himself into the day-to-day work at his companies. Musk said in July he would personally oversee Samsung’s new chipmaking plant in Texas. The plant, located in Taylor, Texas, is expected to open in 2026.

“This is a critical point, as I will walk the line personally to accelerate the pace of progress,” Musk said on X, adding that the fab is “conveniently located not far from my house.”

During Tesla’s Model 3 ramp-up in 2018, Musk said he slept on the company’s factory floor. After taking over Twitter — now X — in 2023, he renamed the company and rehauled its entire structure.

• Ciara, 40, says her biggest parenting fear is where her four kids get their information.
• “This world is like bananas, and so I think you’ve got to be locked in even more now because the access is so high,” she said.
• The singer also described herself as a “partial” helicopter mom who likes to “be up in the mix.”

Ciara, 40, says motherhood keeps her learning every day.

During an appearance on Friday’s episode of the “Angie Martinez IRL” podcast, Ciara spoke about staying connected to her kids and what it takes to keep up with their world.

“I think my kids also keep me young, too. You know, mama’s got to stay tapped in,” Ciara told podcast host Angie Martinez.

The singer is a mother of four. She shares a son with her ex, rapper Future, and two daughters and a son with her husband, New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson.

Staying current helps her better understand her kids and the challenges they face at their ages, Ciara said.

“I want to be, like, aware of what’s happening in their world,” she said.

She added that she often reflects on what life was like when she was their age, so she can better understand what her kids are experiencing now.

“I want them to feel comfortable with me, but I also want to make sure I’m like, thinking about what I could have done better to serve them better,” she said.

Ciara also described herself as a “partial” helicopter mom, and said she likes to “be up in the mix.”

“This world is like bananas, and so I think you’ve got to be locked in even more now because the access is so high,” Ciara said. “And my greatest fear is that the world tells my kid information that shapes them when I could be the one telling them.”

As her kids get older and start talking at school, they can pick up and sometimes make up all kinds of things, she said.

“I feel really proud sometimes when you beat the world to telling your kids something,” Ciara said. “I feel really proud of those moments, like having real conversations with them. So you’re just only empowering them, you’re only armoring them for the world.”

In March, Ciara told Parents that she wants her daughters to learn to create their own self-worth.

“I want my girls to know that they’re not limited by their gender or the color of their skin,” she said.

Speaking to Vogue in August, Ciara said becoming a mother changed how she saw her career and herself.

“When I first began, I’m in an industry where it was taboo to have a child. The moment you had a child, you were automatically labeled as older or not focused. So having my babies and being on this journey to go after all that I’m trying to achieve has just been one of the coolest things,” she said.