Sr. Tools Developer Dita Specialist jobs at Tesla in United States, Fremont

In the Abuse Testing & Engineering group, we push energy storage and power electronics to their limits and beyond using specialized equipment to apply electrical, mechanical, and thermal stresses. Our goal is to provide rapid feedback to inform designs early in development, by understanding how robust systems perform under abusive conditions. We accommodate external regulations but have a strong focus on internal requirements and test to failure. Every Tesla battery product comes through our lab, both vehicles and energy storage. Our environment is fast-paced and incredibly exciting.

We are looking for an Engineer to test a variety of electrically abusive scenarios for power electronics and battery systems across both vehicle and energy products. In this role, you would collaborate with “Pack” and Electronics Design Engineers to design subscale and full-scale tests that meet our requirements, as small as a single cell and as large as an entire product. You would own the testing, through planning and execution (with technician support), results summary and shared decision-making with design teams, resulting in products with world-class safety performance.

• Engage electronics and battery pack teams to understand and prioritize test needs
• Create test plans and execute tests such as FET shoot-through, overvoltage, overcurrent, arc flash, electrical joints failure, or conductive fluid exposure
• Develop sub-pack-scale tests to study novel failure modes with higher fidelity
• Develop any new test equipment needed to conduct tests
• Anticipate and mitigate test execution hazards
• Share results and maintain documentation to be easily referenced by other teams
• Recreate field incidents and suggest countermeasures

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Applied Physics Engineering or equivalent experience
• 5+ years’ experience in physically applied engineering (lab testing, development, hobby or school projects)
• Must be hands-on (wiring, prototyping, troubleshooting, instrumentation)
• Enjoys working in cross-functional groups and leading technicians
• Able to plan many concurrent activities in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Up to 20% travel
• Bonus: experience with CAN bus, battery management systems, Python, National Instruments data acquisition hardware / LabVIEW, CAD, oscilloscopes and related high voltage probes, or similar

• Maintain consumables bill of materials for Tesla collision centers, including paints, primers, masking tape, sandpaper, polishing compounds, foam, adhesives, and other essential repair chemicals and products for vehicle repair and refinish
• Collaborate with engineers, technical teams, specialists, and repair development colleagues to review, test, validate, and implement consumables for global collision operations
• Track and evaluate vendor performance using analytics, including vendor scorecards, KPIs, and reporting
• Provide technical expertise to the collision field, support teams, and other Tesla groups on consumables in the collision industry
• Manage consumables RFPs for new vehicle models, ensuring timelines meet launch schedules, and support sourcing and procurement alignment
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical, billing and other issues with consumables suppliers to ensure smooth operations and business alignment
• Build and maintain relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, using Tesla project management tools to track timelines and report key information

• 3+ years of experience in body/paint tech, operations, chemicals, or related fields (collision experience a plus)
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues
• Excellent organizational skills, capable of managing multiple projects with attention to detail
• Proactive, responsive, and positive with strong interpersonal skills, energy, and urgency
• Proficient in written and spoken English, quick to learn new software
• Team-oriented with a strong sense of confidentiality
• Ability to work independently, maintain confidentiality, obtain Tesla forklift certification if needed, and travel as required

• Specification of joining equipment & systems such as: spot welding, self piercing rivet, remote laser welding, material dispensing and laser braze
• Manage CapEx project lifecycle: Justification, specification / option analysis, approval, spending & budget, factory acceptance testing, installation, commissioning, validation, and transfer of ownership
• Joint development: creating parameters and joining schedules for unique stack-ups and joints in all joining applications
• Production readiness declaration, including PM plans, spare part allocation, training, process documentation, lessons learned and production & quality sustainability
• Optimize joining processes to improve quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Robot path optimization, sequencing, parameter setup. Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as maintenance, quality, process to ensure process stability and performance
• Structure improvement & standardization plans with long term vision to achieve company and department objectives
• Study technologies to expert-level of understanding, utilizing internal & external technical resources to fully understand, teach and lead new / newly implemented technologies
• Support / assist Maintenance in troubleshooting difficult breakdowns and chronic equipment failures. Provide technical training to maintenance, production, and other internal resource groups
• Working in a hands-on capacity in a production environment to fully understand scope, impact, and associated challenges. Provide technical support to production, maintenance, quality, and other groups as required

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent certifcation or proven equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience with joining equipment and processes for BIW automotive: Self piercing rivet, remote laser welding, spot welding, material dispensing and brazing
• 5+ years of experience in setting up and running adaptive, 6-sigma, and other joining monitoring and optimization systems
• Kuka and Fanuc experience for day-to-day joining process application (robot path & position teaching is a plus)
• Proven interpersonal skills and ability to objectively resolve conflict within a large group
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Able to work flexible hours and schedules as required

• Work as key link between cross functional teams to develop requirements and provide solutions for inline vision inspection systems
• Drive ramp of exciting new products by characterizing baseline vision performance and capability and improve performance as measured by product quality and tool availability
• Ensure manufacturing lines meet uptime, availability, and reliability metrics – OEE, cycle time and quality, and have the sense of urgency on resolution of production issues
• Develop best practices to improve vision system reliability
• Vision software and algorithm development and data analysis using programming languages such as C++, C#, Python or HALCON vision library
• Commissioning and calibrating vision systems and MES system integration
• Organize cross-functional design reviews and highlight body of work
• Collaboration with downstream and upstream process teams and quality team on vision system validation, data correlation, and analysis
• Build request for quotation and manage vendor proposals
• Provide direction and mentorship to third party vendors and Tesla Internal machine building teams

• Degree in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience with machine vision systems
• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals and ability to apply them towards manufacturing process development
• Knowledge in selection of cameras, lenses, optics, lighting, and other hardware for image capture and processing
• Knowledge of camera calibration (e.g., pinhole camera model, lens distortion, MTF of imaging system, gain and exposure setting, etc.)
• Strong analytical, mathematical, and statistical background and ability to understand and explain theory behind vision algorithms
• Experience of image processing (e.g., image enhancement, thresholding, morphology, feature extraction, etc.) is highly desired
• Experience with machine learning applications and image classification by deep learning is highly desired
• Experience in high volume manufacturing is highly desired
• Ability to travel

• Develop building and fire code compliance documents and fire life safety designs for new production lines / materials and other improvement in the facility
• Perform hazardous material analysis for code compliances purposes, such as chemical classification, chemical quantity analysis, chemical inventory management, and related system design support
• Develop & create fire protection system design criteria for new production lines / materials and other improvements in the facility
• Review and comment on shop drawing design packages developed by contractors
• Support Staff Fire Protection Engineer and other team members to develop AM&M (Alternate Means & Methods) to local AHJ to help with performance-based design criteria to meet intent of code
• Coordinate with various disciplines during the design process
• Support construction team to develop field solutions
• Perform system field inspection and testing observations to ascertain installation meets all design intents
• Develop process improvements / workflows / templates to increase design productivity and quality of deliverables
• Mentor team members from different functional groups

• Licensed Fire Protection Engineer (CA license required, or able to obtain reciprocity)
• Minimum 5 years of related experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Fire Protection Engineering or equivalent experience
  
• Advance knowledge in NFPA standards and model codes (e.g. ICC codes) related to building fire safety
• Advance knowledge in hazardous materials evaluation for code compliances
• Experiences with fire suppression system and fire detection/alarm system designs and inspection
• Experiences with AutoCAD and Revit
• Ability to work cross-functionally and with large teams
• Ability to work well under pressure and can manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Strong communication skills to explain complex technical challenges and solutions clearly and concisely

• Develop high precision calendaring equipment for battery manufacturing lines
• Closely collaborate with external OEMs on custom equipment design
• Perform stress calculations and run FEA models predicting part/assembly performance under application loads
• Collaborate with small teams on in-house development of novel and complex automation equipment
• Develop specifications for custom automation equipment
• Validate and characterize new equipment and fixtures for production implementation

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of mechanical/manufacturing engineering experience in an industrial setting
• Experience conducting new equipment installations and product startups
• Experience with high power rolling applications in paper, rubber, or steel industries desired
• Experience developing automated manufacturing equipment and high precision tooling in 3D (SolidWorks preferred)
• Experience with optimizing mechanical components to control elastic deformations on micron scale
• Experience working with high speed/accuracy hydraulic positioners desired
• Project management experience desired
• Exemplary verbal and written communication skills required
• Ability to travel internal to the US and abroad

• Build, manage & develop Tesla's global Edge platforms running on VMs, Kubernetes & Baremetal
• Develop control planes for infrastructure services like CDN, Envoy, and API Gateways
• Edge compute capacity planning and forecasting
• Tackle issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, network and application
• Perform analysis, troubleshooting, and introspection on edge & core infrastructure components
• Partner with teams from across the organization to help tackle hard problems
• Drive reliability standards of Edge platform to guarantee 99.99% uptime

• Proficiency with Python, Rust or Golang
• Deep understanding of HTTP/S, TCP, SSL/TLS, BGP/BFD and DNS
• Experience in interacting with platforms and services/micro-services using gRPC/RPC framework
• Experience scaling & operating distributed systems (Consul, etcd) and implementing advanced traffic shaping techniques with eBPF
  
• Expert understanding of Linux systems/sub-systems and services
• Expert in systems & application design, including building and testing production-grade software
• Experience with load balancers such as F5, Nginx, Envoy, HAProxy
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering as well as various aspects of service design including messaging protocols & behavior, caching strategies and software design practices
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or proof of exceptional skills in related field or equivalent experience