Tesla VP Raj Jegannathan Officially Departs Tesla

Tesla VP Raj Jegannathan Officially Departs Tesla

Tesla’s shift from a niche EV maker in the United States to a global automaker—and now an AI-first company—has demanded far more than spinning up a few servers. It has meant constructing some of the most capital-intensive and advanced compute architectures anywhere.

Driving the build-out of the foundations that power the neural networks behind FSD was Raj Jegannathan, Tesla’s long-standing Vice President of IT, AI Infrastructure, and Information Security.

He began his departure in February of this year and has now made it official on LinkedIn, closing out a 13-year tenure at Tesla. He is moving on to become Chief Technology Officer at Chronoscale, a cloud infrastructure provider.

Founding Autonomy

To gauge the significance of his exit, consider the AI infrastructure he was charged with creating. Reporting directly to Elon Musk, Jegannathan led teams for over a decade that designed, built, and operated one of the world's largest GPU clusters.

That raw computational power underpins Tesla’s end-to-end neural networks, delivering the training capacity needed to process billions of miles of real-world fleet telemetry for FSD.

Beyond the silicon of AI training clusters, his remit also covered the architectural backbone of Tesla’s global operations, including large-scale storage systems and global information security.

In a reflection posted on LinkedIn, Jegannathan said that a comprehensive, end-to-end understanding of the business was essential to harness AI across products and customer support channels.

Tesla’s Ongoing Leadership Changeover

Making his departure official adds to a series of high-level executive exits that have occurred over the last six months. As Tesla shifts its corporate identity away from traditional automotive manufacturing and toward a robotics-first paradigm, several long-tenured executives have vested out, retired, or pursued other challenges.