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What to Expect
What You’ll Do What You’ll Bring
The Structural Design team is comprised of Design Engineers who love to solve challenging problems and want to create the best electric vehicles in the world. We support each other on our journey to become better engineers and redefine what people come to expect from transportation. While working at Tesla is a challenging opportunity, we surround ourselves with fun and creative teammates to develop technology the world has never seen.
What You’ll Do
The Battery Engineering organization is comprised of various teams, including Pack, Module, Structures, Devices, and Electronics engineering. The unique expertise of our team focuses on Structural Design of all vehicles Tesla puts on the road. We design the components that make up the foundation of the battery, enabling the most efficient and safe EVs on the road. While our team focuses heavily on ensuring occupant safety and maintaining controlled environments for the battery cells, our responsibility goes far beyond:
- Blurring the boundaries between Vehicle and Powertrain Engineering organizations
- Seamlessly integration the vehicle and battery cells
- Designing the safest cars in the world
- Pushing the boundaries on how reliable vehicles can be
- Developing new production process and materials
- Partnering with our manufacturing engineering teams to launch and ramp our products
Mechanical Design Engineers working out of Austin, TX are primarily focused on launching new products at the factory and driving resolution of design issues in production. Every launch comes with unique and challenging problems, and we are looking for passionate engineers to solve those problems. In between new product launches, this engineer will work on redesign our assemblies for continuous improvement and tackling new program initiatives. The role requires strong engineering/physics fundamentals and the tenacity to apply that to hands-on problem solving. A team player mentality is highly valued, as you are the design representative on the ground collaborating with our factory-based colleagues. Tesla moves quickly, so being self-motivated and disciplined is key to being successful in this role.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Serve as local design authority for line launches, design-changes, trials, deviations/dispositions, and root-cause analysis
- Take over local design responsibility during production launch, ramp and sustaining phase
- Own basic on-site component and system level testing to support design and specification changes; coordinate large validation testing for changes with global team
- Collaborate directly with Manufacturing, Process, and Quality to solve yield barriers and scrap issues
- Support battery teardowns for field and factory failures
- Own product improvements (cost, complexity reductions)
- Own BOM changes, part revisions, drawing revisions, scrappy bench-tests to characterize part/product problems, factory or field teardowns, release/update/challenge specs
- 3D design and GD&T drawings of complex parts and assemblies
- Create feedback loop between manufacturing and design and make necessary improvement to specs/drawings accordingly
- Root-Cause & Corrective Analysis for design issues
- Strong engineering fundamentals in materials and mechanics
- Demonstrated ability to actively find problems and solutions to them
- Detail-oriented personality with solid documentation and reporting skills
- Strong experience in CAD modeling (experience in CATIA V5/3DX is a plus but not required)
- An outlook that find joys from solving problem with creative engineering solutions.
- Prior experience in a relevant engineering field is valued but not required
- Prior experience in high volume manufacturing is valued but not required
- Don’t worry if you don’t have all of these skills mastered – as long as you are excited about the challenge, we will guide you through it
Compensation and Benefits
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
- Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
- Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
- Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- LGBTQ+ care concierge services
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
- Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
- Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
- Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
- Tesla Babies program
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
