Tesla Motors recently released the Model X SUV a much-awaited vehicle and soon will open its Nevada battery factory. To keep up with operations Tesla said it would be hiring thousands of new employees in the upcoming years said a report from a national publication.

During the upcoming four years, Tesla will add approximately 4,500 new jobs across California, which is part of a tax credit it was awarded for $15 million this year.

The maker of electric vehicles has increased from a staff of 800 during 2010 to a present count of more than 14,000 employees. The company currently has over 1,600 positions that are open and is aggressively searching for engineers to better the autopilot features it has amongst other things.

Tesla Motors is expecting explosive growth and it needs more workers now than what a normal auto company would need.

At present, Tesla Motors is now in eight buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently it has shifted some operations to what used to be a plant for solar panels that had been owned by Solyndra previously.

Tesla Motors is not alone as an automaker planning to increase its hiring. The company is going up against multiple automakers based in California to hire workers capable of pushing their self-driving car ambitions.

A number of startups – Faraday Futures, which is Chinese backed, Atieva and Karma Automotive, have started to poach talent from Tesla.

Along with startups, there are firms already established such as Toyota and Ford, expanding offices within Silicon Valley by investing in businesses to take on the Google’s and Apple’s of the tech world that also are amidst the development of self driving vehicles as well.

Tesla Motors’ urgency is the hiring of new workers was evident when Elon Musk the CEO himself tweeted what the requirement was for software engineers only a few weeks ago.

The engineers they were looking for were for working on the self-driving section of the company and Musk was looking for over 100 candidates, but it is believed he received floods of applications.

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