Tesla brings on new VP of engineering from Snap

Tesla announced a number of new hires today, including Stuart Bowers, who is joining as VP of engineering. Bowers is joining Tesla from Snap, where he worked as VP of monetization engineering. Other new hires include Neeraj Manrao, who left Apple to become Tesla's director of energy manufacturing, and Kevin Mukai, who is now director of product engineering at Tesla's Gigafactory.

"We’re excited to welcome a group of such talented people as we continue to ramp Model 3 and accelerate towards a more sustainable future," Tesla wrote on its blog. "We’ll be announcing more hires in the coming days, so stay tuned."

These new hires come following a couple of departures. In April, Tesla VP of Autopilot Jim Keller left for Intel, with Pete Bannon serving as Keller’s replacement. Bannon is a former Apple chip engineer who helped design Apple’s A5-AP chips. Earlier this month, Sameer Qureshi left a senior manager Autopilot role at Tesla to lead Lyft's autonomous driving efforts.

Here's the full list of new hires, via Tesla's blog: