Indian-origin man becomes the first employee to be hired by Tesla

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk recently tweeted that Tesla is looking for hardcore Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineers who care about solving problems that directly affect people’s lives in a major way. The job application was simple with interested candidates were asked to fill fields like name, email, exceptional work done in software, hardware or AI and drop their resume in the PDF format.
Musk has also disclosed that Indian-origin Ashok Elluswamy was the first employee to be hired for his electric vehicle company’s Autopilot team.  Ashok is currently the head of Autopilot engineering. Ashok holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai and a Master's degree in Robotics System Development from Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes, with a net worth of around $ 282 billion, most of it in Tesla stock.